Impulsive behavior may be relict of hunter-gatherer past
...ke 'a little now or a lot later' than others. When psychologists study kids who are good at waiting for a reward, they find those kids generallly do better in life. It looks as though this is a key to success in the modern world, so why is it so hard for us to accept delays? The answer may be because we evolved as...Your brain and you: Forecasting the ethical challenges ahead for neuroscience and society
...in a person's brain. This is a potential boon for psychologists and neuroscientists, but is also being used in the service of corporate profits. In "neuromarketing," researchers use functional MRI to gauge a person's desire for particular products and the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Brain imaging is...Quality of mom's time, not quantity, most important in early infant development
...ime during their child's first year of life. Many psychologists and parents worry that the time mothers spend away from their babies when at work detracts from mothers' ability to be sensitive to their babies' needs and to provide cognitive stimulation to their children. Aletha C. Huston, PhD, and Stacey Rosen...African-Americans and Caucasians have similar emotional brain activity when seeing African-Americans
...nity agrees with those stereotypes. Several social psychologists have found evidence for this view. From an early age, cultural views, media portrayals and even the body language of authority figures may train our brains, whether we consciously agree or not." Previous research has shown that Caucasians show an inc...Cancer survivors may be at higher risk for cognitive dysfunction
...esults pending further research. In the study, USC psychologists studied 702 cancer survivors andtheir cancer-free twins in the Swedish Twin Registry. Studying twins removes statistical influences from genetic orearly childhood causes of both cancer and cognitive deficits. Working with colleagues at the Karolinska...Dyslexia: risk gene is identified
...cago.edu/AJHG ). For several years child and youth psychologists at the universities of Marburg and Wrzburg searched for families in which at least one child was considered dyslexic. "We then analysed blood samples taken from the families to identify candidate genes and in the end we found the right one," explain...Reflecting on personal values offers protection from effects of stress, UCLA psychologists report
...rotection from the adverse effects of stress, UCLA psychologists report in the November issue of the journal Psychological Science. "Our study shows that reflection on personal values can buffer people from the effects of stress, but the implications are broader than that," said Shelley E. Taylor, UCLA distinguish...Heredity may be the reason some people feel lonely
...s are persistently lonely, research co-authored by psychologists at the University of Chicago shows. Working with colleagues in The Netherlands, the scholars found about 50 percent of identical twins and 25 percent of fraternal twins shared similar characteristics of loneliness. Research on twins is a powerful me...Joslin Diabetes Center study shows benefits of online discussion boards
...including physicians, nurse educators, dietitians, psychologists and exercise physiologists, all of whom can offer important perspectives about diabetes care. "There's a strong therapeutic effect from posting on the board," says the study's lead investigator, John F. Zrebiec, M.S.W, C.D.E., a clinical social work...Key brain regulatory gene shows evolution in humans
...umans. We're hoping the clinical psychiatrists and psychologists can give us more insight into that aspect." Wray and his colleagues have already identified a collection of some 250 other candidate genes -- mainly those active in the brain -- that they are beginning to analyze for evidence of evolutionary selectio...Hamster study shows how our brains recognize other individuals
... the memory, a team of Cornell University research psychologists has found. The team, led by professor of psychology Robert Johnston, has been conducting experiments to study individual recognition. But rather than crash high school reunions with an MRI machine in tow, the researchers stayed in their laboratory a...Looking for consensus on how to manage metastatic breast cancer
...involve doctors from Europe and the United States, psychologists and patient advocates. The ESO task force met in Italy earlier in the year and identified six key points in preparation for the discussion at EBCC-5. The recommendations encompass the management of the disease, patient involvement in clinical trials ...PMS a fact of life or all in the mind?
...delegates of an international 3-day conference for psychologists to be held at the University of Leicester, entitle..., which will offer a rare chance for international psychologists interested in the comparatively recent adoption within Psychology of qualitative research. Professor...FSU scientist's biomolecular research published in Science, Nature
...59 by a group of chemists, biologists, physicists, psychologists and other FSU scientists who foresaw the need for close-knit cooperation among traditional disciplines in the rapidly evolving research area of molecular biology. Today, the Institute of Molecular Biophysics focuses on computational biophysics and st...Designer babies - what would you do for a 'healthy' baby?
...n the poorly educated, according to a new study by psychologists at the University of East Anglia. The findings will be presented by Dr. Simon Hampton at the BA Festival of Science on Setpember 5. Dr. Hampton and his team at UEA's School of Social Work and Psychosocial Studies examined what different groups of...Scientists debate the neurobiological underpinnings of amnesia
...been a vexed question for more than 30 years. Most psychologists tended to support the retrieval-deficit explanation, while neuroscientists interested in how memories work at a molecular and cellular level backed the idea of storage-failure. This disconnect has limited both scientific and clinically relevant a...Erotic images prove useful in coaxing out unconscious brain activity
...ual orientation, a team of University of Minnesota psychologists has found. The team, led by graduate student Yi Jiang and his adviser, psychology professor Sheng He, found that even when unaware of erotic images in their field of vision, research subjects shifted the focus of their visual attention according to w...Memories: It's all in the packaging, scientists say
..."This study provides a neurological basis for what psychologists have been telling us for years," said Michael Rugg, director of UCI's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and senior author of the paper. "You can't get out of memory what you didn't put into it. It is not possible to remember things l...Paying attention sets off symphony of cell synchronization
...y how attention alters brain activity. The team of psychologists and neuroscientists used a new strategy for understanding the mechanisms whereby sustained attention makes us process things more effectively, literally making the world come into sharper focus. "When you pay attention cells aren't only responding ...The National Academies' Distinguished Speaker Series runs Jan. 17-March 21, 2007
.... Dr. Loftus was named one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century by the Review of General Psychology, and she was the top-ranked woman on the list. Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D., is distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, holding positions in the departments of psychology & ...