Frontpage » Tag » sad

News tagged with sad

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.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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

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

Listening to music can change the way you judge facial emotions

A research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya at Goldsmiths, University of London has shown that it is possible to influence emotional evaluation of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the evaluation.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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

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