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You Don't Have To Be Smart To Be Rich, Study Finds (April 25, 2007) -- It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make a lot of money, according to new research. A nationwide study found that people of below average intelligence were, overall, just about as wealthy as those ... > full story

The Power Of Speaking Ladylike (April 25, 2007) -- Does gender make a difference in the way politicians speak and are spoken to? This is the question posed in a new study. The study of transcripts of three television and two radio interviews of Bill ... > full story

Understanding Schizophrenia: How Genetics, White-matter Defects, Dopamine Abnormalities And Disease Symptoms Are Associated (April 25, 2007) -- New research helps bridge an important gap in understanding schizophrenia, providing the best evidence to date that defects in the brain's white matter are a key contributor to the disease, which ... > full story

TV Food Advertisements Increase Obese Children's Appetite By 134 Percent (April 25, 2007) -- Obese and overweight children increase their food intake by more than 100 percent after watching food advertisements on television, a recent study has ... > full story

Morphine Makes Lasting -- And Surprising -- Change In The Brain (April 25, 2007) -- New findings may help explain the origins of addiction in the brain. The research also supports a provocative new theory of addiction as a disease of learning and ... > full story

Halos And Horns: Fixing The 'Taste' Of Diet Soda (April 25, 2007) -- Scientists are trying to solve a mystery: Why doesn't diet soda taste more like regular soda? Can a well-trained panel of "taste testers" pinpoint the exact problem? Now can food scientists do ... > full story

Chronically Ill Prisoners Can Face Great Healthcare Problems (April 25, 2007) -- An incontinent prisoner forced to use a bin bag to protect his mattress. A diabetic who regularly misses breakfast because only high sugar cereals are on offer. Just two of the anecdotes to emerge ... > full story

Siblings Of Autistic Children At Risk For Developmental Problems, Study Shows (April 24, 2007) -- Younger siblings of children with autism are at risk to suffer from delayed verbal, cognitive and motor development in their early childhood ... > full story

School Environment Can Moderate Student Aggression, Study Finds (April 24, 2007) -- The culture of a school can dampen -- or exacerbate -- the violent or disruptive tendencies of aggressive young teens, new research indicates. A large-scale study found that while personal traits and ... > full story

Does Migraine Protect Your Memory? (April 24, 2007) -- Women with a lifetime history of migraine showed less of a performance decline over time on cognitive tests than women who didn't have migraines. Researchers say medications for migraine, diet and ... > full story

Certain PCB's Causes Developmental Abnormalities In Rat Pups (April 24, 2007) -- Scientists have determined that a specific class of PCB causes significant developmental abnormalities in rat pups whose mothers were exposed to the toxicant in their food during pregnancy and during ... > full story

Female Alcoholics Can Develop Cognitive Problems More Rapidly Than Male Alcoholics (April 24, 2007) -- Female alcoholics can develop cognitive problems more rapidly than male ... > full story

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Social cognition -- Social cognition is the study of how people process social information, especially its encoding, storage, retrieval, and application to social situations. There has been much recent interest in the ... > full article

Cognitive dissonance -- Cognitive dissonance is the perception of incompatibility between two cognitions, which can be defined as any element of knowledge, attitude, emotion, belief or value, or a goal, plan, or interest. ... > full article

Altruism -- Altruism is the practice of placing others before oneself. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and central to many religious traditions. In English, the idea was often described as Golden ... > full article

Emotion -- Emotion, in its most general definition, is a neural impulse that moves an organism to action, prompting automatic reactive behavior that has been adapted through evolution as a survival mechanism to ... > full article

Cognition -- The term cognition is used in several loosely related ways to refer to a faculty for the human-like processing of information, applying knowledge and changing preferences. Cognition or cognitive ... > full article

Cognitive bias -- A cognitive bias is any of a wide range of observer effects identified in cognitive science and social psychology including very basic statistical, social attribution, and memory errors that are ... > full article

Attribution theory -- Attribution theory is a field of social psychology, which was born out of the theoritical models of Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley, Edward E. Jones, and Lee Ross. Attribution theory is concerned with ... > full article

Cooperation -- Cooperation or co-operation, refers to the practice of people or greater entities working in common with commonly agreed upon goals and possibly methods, instead of working separately in competition. ... > full article

Aggression -- Aggression is defined as the act of initiating hostilities or invasion, the practice or habit of launching attacks, or hostile or destructive behavior or actions. Exposure to elevated androgen ... > full article

Thought -- Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. Thinking involves manipulation ... > full article

Phobia -- A phobia is a strong, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. Some ... > full article

Illusion of control -- Illusion of control is the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes that they demonstrably have no influence over. The predominant paradigm in research on ... > full article

Anchoring bias in decision-making -- Anchoring or focalism is a term used in psychology to describe the common human tendency to rely too heavily, or "anchor," on one trait or piece of information when making decisions. During normal ... > full article

Familiarity increases liking -- Exposure effect is a psychological artifact well known to advertisers: people express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them. This effect has been nicknamed the ... > full article

Developmental psychology -- Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological changes that occur in human beings as they age. Originally concerned with infants and children, and later other periods ... > full article

Platonic love -- Platonic love in its modern popular sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise. A simple example ... > full article

Self image -- A person's self image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others ... > full article

Cognitive psychology -- Cognitive Psychology is the school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max ... > full article

Humanistic psychology -- Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and ... > full article

Anger management -- The term anger management commonly refers to a system of psychological therapeutic techniques and exercises by which one with excessive or uncontrollable anger can control or reduce the triggers, ... > full article