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Prostate cancer patients may have prolonged lives thanks to Alpharadin, an experimental drug from Bayer and Algeta. Relationship counseling was also recently proved to benefit prostate cancer patients and their partners.Two recent finding promise to improve the qualify of life for prostate cancer patients. An experimental drug, Alpharadin, from Norway’s Algeta and Germany’s Bayer was shown to .. more …
These days many parents can become overly focused on their children’s happiness and achievements, but this intense focus–and the constant praising that goes with it–can imperil a deeper development of childrens’ moral qualities. What kinds of achievement pressure are constructive and what kinds are destructive? How can we raise children who are happy, high achieving and moral? What are the key .. more …
There is an interesting piece of human psychology which sports lovers will be very familiar with: this is that ‘expectations influence perception’. The most obvious example of this is when a penalty is given in the dying minutes of a soccer game, which up to then was a barren draw. It is virtually impossible in such cases to find anyone in the team which thus stands to lose the game, who feels .. more …
In the second half of the 19th century (1879), psychology became a more organized experimental field of study when Wilhelm Wundt founded the first phychological research laboratory in Leipzig, Germany. Wundt and others of that time approached psychology with: “Every physical event has a mental counterpart, and every mental event has a physical counterpart.” At this time, Ivan Pavlov also made .. more …
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Share Print News in Science › Innovation and Technology Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Eric Niiler Discovery News Social predictor Companies who want to know more about prospective employees can learn a lot by checking their Facebook profiles, according to a new study.Jennifer Golbeck and colleagues at the University of Maryland surveyed the public profiles of nearly 300 Facebook users for .. more …
(PRWEB) May 01, 2011 Dr. Edward A. Dreyfus, a clinical psychologist who practices in Santa Monica has written his fifth book, LIVING LIFE FROM THE INSIDE OUT: WHO YOU ARE MATTERS . Profits from this book as well as his other four books, will be donated to : Changing Lives Through Jobs and Make A Wish Foundation. All of the books are available on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle versions. .. more …
A new, small study of low-income, depressed Latinos finds that those who stigmatize mental illness are less likely than others are to take medication, keep scheduled appointments and control their .. more …
Happiness has long been a part of human life. However, it is only in recent years when psychologists actually started looking at happiness from an academic standpoint. Now, people want to know how happy we are, what makes us cheerful and how it affects us as a person. That is basically what happiness psychology is all about. Also known as positive psychology, the study of .. more …