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Does Religion Help Mental Health? It Might Depend On How You Think About God
Some relationships are good for your mental health, and some aren’t. It depends on the specifics. And it might be that your relationship with God is no exception. At least, that’s what ...
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Heart Rate Reactivity May Predict Impact of Childhood Adversity in Adulthood
It may be that resilience in the face of stress is an ability that’s partly in the head and partly in the heart. Actually, technically speaking, it’s probably all in the head, ...
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Parental Rejection Drives Childhood Emotional Eating
Parental rejection may be an important catalyst for emotional eating during childhood – possibly more so than peer rejection. That’s according to a new study from psychologists at Ghent University in Belgium ...
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Sympathy May Be Part of a More General “Meta-Emotion”
Feelings of sympathy and compassion – what psychologists call empathic concern – may be part of a larger "communal emotion," according to new work by researchers in Norway, Portugal and the United ...
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The Cost of Internalized Stigma
One of the most insidious kinds of stigma people with mental health conditions face is self-stigma. When you’re surrounded by a culture that stigmatizes mental illness, it’s natural that these attitudes can ...
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Mental Health and Dental Health Go Together
Your teeth and your brain might not seem like they have much in common, but researchers have consistently found a relationship between mental health and oral health. For example, a systematic review ...
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5 Life Skills Predict Health and Happiness Later in Life
If you could choose to master any life skill, optimism wouldn’t be a bad place to start. That and four other life skills have been linked to health, happiness and even financial ...
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Regret Over Missed Opportunities May Drive Risk Taking
Often it’s the things we didn’t do that we regret the most – not the things we did do but shouldn’t have. And when we take risks in life, often it’s because ...
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Math Teachers Get the Worst Student Evaluations
Customer satisfaction is important, and if you work in higher education, you know that schools are no exception. At colleges, student evaluations of teachers often factor into hirings, firings, promotions – and, ...
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Newborn Babies’ Brains Are Specialized for Speech
Babies have a certain genius when it comes to learning language, and it turns out that some of the pieces of language acquisition are already in place at birth. In particular, babies ...
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