Referees add more extra time when the big teams are losing
Football enthusiasts suspected it, but now statistics is confirming it. After analysing all the matches of the Spanish league “La Liga” from the 2014-2015 season, two experts in sports science have...
View ArticleThe Chilcot Report: An Intelligence Studies Perspective
Dr David Strachan-Morris from the University of Leicester outlines how the Iraq War was only one of the options available - and was taken before all other options were exhausted. Dr Strachan-Morris...
View ArticleWhy do we tap our feet to a musical beat?
In a paper recently published by the Journal of New Music Research, Professor Rolf Inge Godøy and colleagues at the University of Oslo explore the theory behind the relationship between musical sound...
View ArticleFaking to finish - women feign sexual pleasure to end 'bad' sex
When talking about troubling sexual encounters some women mention faking sexual pleasure to speed up their male partner’s orgasm and ultimately end sex. This is one of the findings of a qualitative...
View ArticleSmuggled diplomatic diaries from dawn of Cold War to be made freely available...
Diplomatic diaries smuggled from Moscow to Paris as Communism swept across the East almost 70 years ago will be digitized and made freely available online for the first time. The diaries belonged to Fu...
View ArticleGreener Cities Become More Unjust
A new research project led by ICTA - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) researcher Isabelle Anguelovski and funded by the European Union will assess the “green gentrification” process by which the...
View Article“Us versus them” social traits may have evolved in monkeys before humans
Our closest primate relatives may have evolved “us versus them” social traits as a means to cope with competition from rival groups of monkeys long before this behaviour first occurred in humans, new...
View ArticleWomen in Computing: engineering biology
Kicking off our series celebrating Women in Computing, we hear from Katie Barr from our Plant and Microbial Genomics Group on her journey through computing, what she thinks may lie in store, as well as...
View ArticleGastrointestinal Disorders Involve Both Brain-to-Gut and Gut-to-Brain Pathways
New research indicates that in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or indigestion, there is a distinct brain-to-gut pathway, where psychological symptoms begin first, and separately a distinct...
View ArticleHasskommentatoren verzichten im Netz häufig auf ihre Anonymität
Hasskommentare in sozialen Medien können innert Kürze die Reputation einer Person oder eines Unternehmens beschädigen oder gar zerstören. Der Grund für solche Posts sei, so die gängige Meinung, dass...
View ArticleTrolls often waive their anonymity online
Hate speech in social media can damage or even destroy the reputation of an individual or a company very quickly. Widespread opinion blames the fact that individuals generally write these things...
View Article‘Pokémon Go could ease Type 2 diabetes burden’
University of Leicester researcher suggests smartphone craze could help challenge rising obesity levels. Millions of people around the world have started to play Pokémon Go, a virtual reality treasure...
View ArticleSibling Competition Helped Guide Dispersal in Pre-Industrial Populations
Researchers who examined family genealogies from Finland found that the presence of same-sex elder siblings increased the probability that people would disperse to new lands, whereas having...
View ArticleWhat can be done when mild cognitive impairment occurs?
A randomized controlled study has evaluated the effects of two treatments for mild cognitive impairment. Authors examined the efficacy of group-based cognitive intervention (GCI) and home-based...
View ArticleWhen drug treatment of social anxiety is not sufficient: the role of...
A randomized controlled study has evaluated the role of psychotherapy in patients whose social anxiety did not respond to drug treatment. Although antidepressants are still a commonly used treatment...
View ArticleA psychological internet intervention for depression works.
A randomized controlled trial published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics indicates how a psychological intervention by internet may be helpful in mild to moderate depression....
View ArticleA new psychotherapeutic treatment for depression
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, a randomized controlled trial concerned with a new psychotherapeutic approach to depression, Metacognitive Training, is presented.
View ArticleA New Design For Psychotherapy Trials
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a new design for psychotherapy trials is presented. Mental disorders are highly prevalent and costly. Thus, their long-term outcome is of...
View ArticleCan Drugs That Treat Hypertension May Also Treat Depression?
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, the relationship of drugs that are generally used for treating hypertension (angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors) are examined in their...
View ArticleThe Brain Changes After Behavioral Exposure Are Lasting
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the brain changes following behavioral exposure have been examined at an unusually long follow-up.
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