Simple jealousy starts as a feeling of discomfort at the prospect of losing reward or affection to someone else. In complex jealousy, the prospect of loss feels like unjustifiable self-diminishment; you become smaller and less valuable, because someone is manipulating or betraying you.Simple jealousy motivates reward/affection-seeking behavior - you try to be more cooperative, helpful, or loving,
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February 27, 2010
Mad about You: Simple and Complex Jealousy
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Am happy, will be selfish; Am sad, will be fair. Oh Really?!?
Image via WikipediaMany a times, researchers have their own personal agendas and its very human to fall in to the temptation to interpret study results or spin them to suit ones long term subject matter and expertise. This is a trap in which Joe Forgas et al fall when they report in JESP that happy More >Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related posts:Am happy, will seek novelty; am sad, will sti
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First Physiological Evidence Of Brain’s Response To Inequality
The human brain is a big believer in equality - and a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, has become the first to gather the images to prove it. Specifically, the team found that the reward centers in the human brain respond more strongly when a poor person receives a financial reward than when a rich person does...
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UAB Testing Software To Teach Kids To Interact Safely With Dogs
Psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are testing a software program designed to teach children to interact safely with dogs. Each year as many as 4.5 million Americans are bitten by dogs. Nearly one in five - about 885,000 people - suffer injuries severe enough to require medical attention, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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February 26, 2010
Stress Hormone In Womb Predicts Poorer Cognitive Development, But Loving Care Can “Undo” It
A mother's nurture may provide powerful protection against risks her baby faces in the womb, according to a new article published online today in the journal Biological Psychiatry...
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Video-game exercise bikes - not just a gimmick
Exercise is going techno. People are playing Wii fit sports games in their homes and gyms are full of ever more interactive exercise machines. But is this trend anything more than gimmickry? Yes, according to a new study by Ryan Rhodes at the Behavioural Medicine Lab at the University of Victoria, and his colleagues.Rhodes' team had 29 previously inactive young men embark on an exercise regime, i
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Area responsible for neuroscience errors located
I liked this funny and recursive brain diagram from tech journalist Quinn Norton that makes fun of our tendency to be wowed by brain scans.The diagram has a good evidence base. A 2008 study found that adding a picture of a brain scan to a scientific argument about human nature made the general public more likely to be believe it even if brain activity wasn't relevant to the point being made.Anoth
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Is the Clinical Significance Criterion Significant?
The draft version of DSM-V: Revenge of the Fallen has been online for a few weeks (1) and much has already been written about it (1, 2, 3, 4). Much focus has been on what is "new" and what is "gone." One feature that is shared by the majority of DSM diagnoses, the "clinical significance" criterion, might be on its way out. Typically this criterion read
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