With a series of creative experiments designed to show the immunity-prejudice connection, a team of researchers has found that just feeling safe can improve our feelings about outsiders.
Concreteness training is cheap and requires minimal contact with therapists -- one visit and a few calls -- making it an ideal treatment.
Traditional treatment is costly and complicated, but a new offering from Self-Study Apps claims that it can help you to deal with your fear of dentists, spiders, and more, with just a phone.
Certain components of marijuana have different effects on brain activity, according to research in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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In much the same way that combat affects a soldier, violence causes a kid's natural alarm and response system to become too sensitive.
Power corrupts, but new research shows that it may also enhance a person's ability to think in focused, analytical ways in the workplace.
Hoping to pave the way for improved treatment options, researchers have found that they can significantly reduce our response to stress.
The events that take place in the brain hours and even days after severe head trauma could be much more devastating than the impact, resulting in loss of brain function -- or worse.
There's a reason why the first thing we often ask someone when we meet them, right after we learn their name, is "where's home for you?"
Patrick, a middle-aged man with no history of psychiatric illness found himself struggling with a deep depression after losing his job.
There's a high failure rate in obesity treatment because your body, post-regimen, goes into a state that makes you fixate on all kinds of food.
This year, we learned that we are not so smart, that two distinct systems dictate how we think, and a little about what it means to be human.
New research from the University of Warwick shows that a woman's confidence clearly affects her ability to perform basic spatial tasks
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Stress and tension caused by an abusive boss at work (rudeness, public criticism, tantrums) filters through to an employee's relationships and ultimately affects his or her entire family.
With the ongoing economic crisis, doctors are seeing a spike in psychiatric emergencies at the same time state budgets are being slashed.
Nobody likes to be told what to do or how to think. One way to cut down on discrimination, according to a new study, is to explain things as neutrally as possible and let people act.
New research looks into the detrimental effects of an 'accidental interpersonal touch' on shopping behavior and customer satisfaction.
Scientists at a Norwegian University have developed new models that reveal connections between nerve cells and electronic signals.