Today's college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and '90s, a University of Michigan study shows. The study, presented in Boston at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, analyzes data on empathy among almost 14,000 college students over the last 30 years...
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May 31, 2010
College Students Lack Empathy
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Education helps against dementia, Swedish study finds
Researchers have discovered that education not only delays the early symptoms of dementia, but can also slow down the development of the disease - a finding that could result in faster diagnosis and treatment of dementia, reveals new research from Sweden.
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French government begins ‘neuropolicy’
ABC Radio National's Life Matters covers the surprising news that France has created a brain and behavioural research unit specifically to form public policy.The public policy in question is not just to do with the mind and brain and the director of the unit describes a 'neuromarketing' approach where the programme seems set to advise on how, for example, anti-smoking messages can be formulated.A
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A Rival’s Deep, Masculine Voice Is Not Enough To Challenge A Man’s Dominance, Says New Study
Men with a deep, masculine voice are seen as more dominant by other men but a man's own dominance - perceived or actual - does not affect how attentive he is to his rivals' voices. His own dominance does however influence how he rates his competitors' dominance: the more dominant he thinks he is, the less dominant he rates his rival's voice...
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Community acceptance, social support, and educational access provide safety net for former child soldiers
The Child Soldiers Global Report 2008 estimates that more than 300,000 children are engaged as soldiers around the globe, and more children are recruited every year in ongoing and new conflicts. Although a number of multinational coalitions are aligned to stop the recruitment of child soldiers, some countries persist in not only the recruitment of children but also in exposing children to both th
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Monday Pets: Dumb Guinea Pigs? (The I Just Got Back From APS Edition)
Zen recently wrote mentioned this study on his blog, so I thought it was time to dredge it out of the archives. Also, I've just returned from APS (see my daily recaps here here and here), and I am TIRED.Domestic animals and their wild counterparts can be different in big ways; there can be differences in morphology (physical characteristics), physiology, and behavior. These changes may depend on
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Canadian Mental Health Association Proudly Endorses Launch Of Telus™ Platform For Consumer eHealth
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) provides a wide range of mental health programs and services in some 135 communities across Canada. Now we have extended our reach in supporting Canadians' mental health to an exciting new level...
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Can Mice Show Placebo Effects? And Does it Even Matter?
Acupuncture has yet to withstand Placebo control trials. Therefore Bloggers and Twitterers are upset about an upcoming Nature Neuroscience paper that reports having found a biological basis for how acupuncture "works". I think the criticism is undeserved...... Nanna Goldman et al. (2010) Adenosine A1 receptors mediate local anti-nociceptive effects of acupuncture. Nature Neurosc
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May 30, 2010
Mouse ache
Nature Neuroscience are about to publish a study that attempts to explain the biological basis of mouse acupuncture. If you're checking in case you have accidentally slipped between universes, don't worry, you haven't. It's just that this one has gone a bit strange.The full paper is not out until later today and will eventually appear here, so I will reserve my full judgement (because, you never
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