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Study: Personality traits associated with stress and worry can be hazardous to your health

(PhysOrg.com) -- Personality traits associated with chronic worrying can lead to earlier death, at least in part because these people are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, according ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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People neglect who they really are when predicting their own future happiness

Humans are notoriously bad at predicting their future happiness. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that part of the reason for these mispredictions lies i ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Bloggers' word choice bares their personality traits, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Words convey meaning, but our choice of specific words also conveys details about our personalities, new research confirms. For example, extraverts are likely to use the word "mouth" frequently, and "open" ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Attitude and adaptation keys to reaching 100 hundred years of age

University of Georgia research has provided new clues on surviving to be 100 years old, finding that how we feel about ourselves and our ability to adapt to an accumulation of challenging life experiences may be as or more ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gap creates risk for young people with mental health problems

Many young people with mental health problems are at risk of falling through a huge gap in provision when they move from adolescent to adult care services, according to new research from the University of Warwick.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Violent video games may increase aggression in some but not others, says new research

Playing violent video games can make some adolescents more hostile, particularly those who are less agreeable, less conscientious and easily angered. But for others, it may offer opportunities to learn new skills and improve ...

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created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sensitive people may use their brains differently

(PhysOrg.com) -- An exploratory study has examined highly sensitive people and found the first evidence of neural differences between them and less sensitive people. Most studies have focused on the social ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Personality may influence brain shrinkage in aging

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis have found an intriguing possibility that personality and brain aging during the golden years may be linked.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify secrets to happiness, depression among oldest of old

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neva Morris of Ames officially became America's oldest person and the second-oldest person in the world this month at the age of 114. And researchers from her community and Iowa State University's ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Others may know us better than we know ourselves, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since at least the days of Socrates, humans have been advised to "know thyself." And through all the years, many, including many personality and social psychologists, have believed the individual ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating Artificial Personalities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does your robot seem to be acting a bit neurotic? Maybe it's just their personality. Recently, a team of researchers has designed computer-coded genomes for artificial creatures in which a ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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