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Misreading faces tied to child social anxiety

Children suffering from extreme social anxiety are trapped in a nightmare of misinterpreted facial expressions: They confuse angry faces with sad ones, a new Emory University study shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dude, you throw like a crybaby!

A UCLA–University of Glasgow study of baseball tosses has found that body language is more likely to be judged as masculine when it seems to convey anger and as feminine when is seems to convey sadness.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Crocodile tears don't fool us all

How easy is it to fake remorse? Not so easy if your audience knows what to look for. In the first investigation of the nature of true and false remorse, Leanne ten Brinke and colleagues, from the Centre for the Advancement ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Parent-child play therapy relieves depression in preschoolers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A form of play therapy between parents and their toddlers can relieve depression in preschoolers, according to child psychiatry researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...

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created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Mental problems twice as likely for cannabis users: report

Cannabis users suffer mental health problems twice as often as non-users, a study published Monday by Statistics Netherlands said.

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created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 17

Anger amplifies clinical pain in women with and without fibromyalgia

Researchers from Utrecht University who studied the effect of negative emotions on pain perception in women with and without fibromyalgia found that anger and sadness amplified pain equally in both groups. Full findings ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Text messages reveal the emotional timeline of September 11, 2001

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have been called the defining moment of our time. Thousands of people died and the attacks had huge individual and collective consequences, including two wars. But less is known ...

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created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How are sadness and happiness like diseases? They're infectious, study finds

Is sadness a sickness? It appears to spread like one, a new study has found.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Daily stress plummets after age 50

After age 50, daily stress and worry take a dive and happiness increases, according to an analysis of more than 340,000 adults questioned about the emotions they experienced "yesterday."

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created May 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Parkinson's disease makes it harder to figure out how other people feel

Scientists are beginning to find out why people with Parkinson's disease often feel socially awkward. Parkinson's patients find it harder to recognize expressions of emotion in other people's faces and voices, report two ...

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created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: depression can lead to inflated reports of physical symptoms

New research shows people who feel depressed tend to recall having more physical symptoms than they actually experienced. The study indicates that depression -- not neuroticism -- is the cause of such over-reporting.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sniff: women cry more than men, and for longer

It was already widely assumed, but German experts provided confirmation on Wednesday: women cry more often than men, for longer -- and in a more dramatic fashion.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Ground Zero-scale trauma can prompt psychological growth

People who live through an extreme traumatic experience such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks or an airplane crash often have the capacity to bounce back or even grow to a higher level of functioning and personal strength, according ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Trust in a teardrop: Researcher says tears can help build, strengthen personal relationships

Medically, crying is known to be a symptom of physical pain or stress. But now a Tel Aviv University evolutionary biologist looks to empirical evidence showing that tears have emotional benefits and can make interpersonal ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Can you see the emotions I hear? Study says yes

By observing the pattern of activity in the brain, scientists have discovered they can "read" whether a person just heard words spoken in anger, joy, relief, or sadness. The discovery, reported online on May 14th in Current Bi ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0