Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that I didn't get a chance to report on in full:
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Is exposure therapy appropriate for use with older adults? 'The current case study details a course of prolonged exposure (PE) therapy in an 88-year-old, World War II veteran, diagnosed with...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Psychologists who study babies need to consider whether their little participants are weighed down with too much clothing or equipment. The executive secretarial task - an ecologically valid test...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Babies as young as 14 months show signs of altruism. Psychological factors that predict adjustment and coping in people with multiple sclerosis. Neurotic people spend more time than others looking...
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Other eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: When we find things disgusting, is it because they remind us of our vulnerability to death? The relationship between a psychotherapist's personality and their choice of...
- Does The Way Mothers Think About Their Difficult Children Matter?
Early findings have shown that the mothers of badly behaved young children think about their child’s behaviour in a characteristic way, tending to believe that their bad behaviour is intentional and has to do with the nature of the child rather than...
Neuroscience
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Eye-catching studies that I didn't get a chance to report on in full:The personality profile of people who get bullied at work.
Adults with autism are better than healthy controls at dividing their attention.
The biological basis of the nocebo effect - the ability for negative expectations to worsen symptoms.
The newborn babies of mothers who smoked during pregnancy have a more negative psychological disposition than babies whose mothers didn't smoke.
What do clients with borderline personality disorder think of dialectical behaviour therapy, which the evidence suggests is particularly effective for them?
See here for Wikipedia on DBT.
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Is exposure therapy appropriate for use with older adults? 'The current case study details a course of prolonged exposure (PE) therapy in an 88-year-old, World War II veteran, diagnosed with...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Psychologists who study babies need to consider whether their little participants are weighed down with too much clothing or equipment. The executive secretarial task - an ecologically valid test...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Babies as young as 14 months show signs of altruism. Psychological factors that predict adjustment and coping in people with multiple sclerosis. Neurotic people spend more time than others looking...
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Other eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: When we find things disgusting, is it because they remind us of our vulnerability to death? The relationship between a psychotherapist's personality and their choice of...
- Does The Way Mothers Think About Their Difficult Children Matter?
Early findings have shown that the mothers of badly behaved young children think about their child’s behaviour in a characteristic way, tending to believe that their bad behaviour is intentional and has to do with the nature of the child rather than...