Man's best friend lends insight into human evolution
...s take for granted. But, according to evolutionary psychologist Brian Hare at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, this ability is present in other species as well. As Hare discusses in the April issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, chimpanzees utilize social cues like eye gaze and face orienta......us normal and deviant social settings evolutionary psychologist Nigel Barber explains the evolutionary basis of these wide-ranging phenomena. Beginning with Darwin's theory, Barber shows how the original notion of a dog-eat-dog world where survival of the fittest is the only rule must now be modified by the new ...Successful lung cancer surgery not enough to break nicotine dependence in many smokers
...dys lead author, Mark S. Walker, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Washington University. "Their choices are driven by insidious cravings for nicotine." The investigators found that those smokers who were the last to give up their cigarettes - some on the same day as their op...Snap judgments decide a face's character, psychologist finds
...recent Princeton research. Princeton University psychologist Alex Todorov has found that people respond intuitively to faces so rapidly that our reasoning minds may not have time to influence the reaction -- and that our intuitions about attraction and trust are among those we form the fastest. "The link be...Under certain genetic circumstances, naltrexone may increase the urge to drink
...t people who take it," said John McGeary, research psychologist at the Providence VA Medical Center. "Some evidence suggests that alcoholics who have a positive family history other alcoholics in their family may have a better response to NTX. This can suggest genetic factors, environmental factors, or both. ...NWO/Spinoza Prize for psychologist, immunologist, biologist and physicist
...2006 are: Prof. J.M. (Jozien) Bensing, clinical psychologist at the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) and Utrecht University. Bensing demonstrated that the relationships between doctors and their patients can be investigated on a sound empirical basis. She also developed a research met...Salk research suggests the existence of specialized neurons that distinguish swagger from sway
... concept such as good and evil," says experimental psychologist and first author Heather Jordan, a former post-doc in the Vision Center Laboratory and now an assistant professor at York University in Toronto. Individual neurons in the visual cortex are finely tuned to certain attributes of visible objects such as...'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds
...ld do that in starlings." Nusbaum, Margoliash and psychologist Kimberly Fenn had previously collaborated on studies of the role of sleep in speech perceptual learning. Gentner, a neuropsychologist, expert on starlings and, at the time, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, was an essential additio...Ultrasounds show mothers' drinking shrinks fetal brain
...ncy Handmaker, a University of New Mexico clinical psychologist with expertise in maternal-fetal health. Alcohol use during pregnancy is a leading preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fetal Alcohol Spe...Animal brains 'hard-wired' to recognize predator's foot movements, Queen's study suggests
...proaching predator's feet, says Queen's University psychologist Niko Troje. "We believe this visual filter is used to signal the presence of animals that are propelled by the motion of their feet and the force of gravity," suggests Dr. Troje, Canada Research Chair in Vision and Behavioural Sciences. Conducted ...'Wild' nature play before age 11 fosters adult environmentalism
... walking, fishing and hunting," said environmental psychologist Nancy Wells, assistant professor of design and environmental analysis in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell. Wells and Kristi Lekies, a research associate in human development at Cornell, analyzed data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture Fores...Combined, genes and environment affect health more than they do alone
...nd obesity," said Richard Surwit, Ph.D., a medical psychologist at Duke who led one of the studies. "Drugs that block serotonergic receptors, such as olanzapine, can produce significant weight gain and diabetes, while drugs that stimulate serotonergic neurons, such as fenfluramine, can induce weight loss and impr...Taste gene may play role in smoking
...hose who didn't," said Timothy Baker, a UW-Madison psychologist and one of the study's authors. "We also found the ratings of 'cues' (sights and smells that trigger urges to smoke) higher among those who were not bitter-tasters." What researchers did not find is any gender differences in tasting bitterness and ...Researcher tackles complexities of obesity, diabetes and their age-related complications
...ies expended," said Dr. Hansen, a physiologist and psychologist specializing in obesity, diabetes and their age-related health complications. Dr. Hansen, a professor of medicine and pediatrics, directs the USF Health's Center for Preclinical Research, which combines obesity, diabetes and aging research, and the ......que propensity for speech. Now a McGill University psychologist believes she's separated out the complicating effects of the uterine sound barrier. And the results, says Dr. Athena Vouloumanos, point to a genetic predilection for listening in on speech above other similar sounds. "It's well established that neon...... connected to the research conducted by the social psychologist Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics. Thomas Mussweiler obtained his doctorate from the University of Trier and his habilitation in Wrzburg in 2002. While in Wrzburg he also led an Emmy Noether independent junior research grou...Childcare reduces stress levels for kids with working mums
...dy was conducted by Dr Julie Turner-Cobb, a health psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Bath, Dr Christina Chryssanthopoulou from the University of Kent and by Dr David Jessop, a neuroimmunologist at the University of Bristol. To measure cortisol levels they took saliva samples in the morning ...Viagra's hidden help for wildlife
...The study's lead authors are Dr Bill von Hippel, a psychologist from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), and his brother, Dr Frank von Hippel, a biologist from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. The von Hippels cite three key findings from the research. "First, significantly more men had for...Erotic images, gore cause temporary 'blindness'
...rch exploring this effect by Vanderbilt University psychologist David Zald and Yale University researchers Steven Most, Marvin Chun and David Widders will be published in the August issue of Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. "We observed that people fail to detect visual images that appeared one-fifth of a second ......bout the complexity of the disease," said clinical psychologist Michael Cuccaro, Ph.D., a study co-author also of the Duke Center for Human Genetics. Furthermore, he added, existing medications already target the GABA system, including diazepam (Valium) and some anti-epileptic drugs. "As we begin to understand th...