Are family relationships at the root of financial risk-taking?
What makes some young adults behave in ways that have the potential to harm themselves or those around them? Many studies have examined the complex psychology of financial risk-taking, but new research...
View ArticleSex-Related Differences in the Brain May Affect Pathways to Substance Abuse...
A new study has found that adolescents suffering from bipolar disorder are more likely to develop substance use disorders if they have lower gray matter volume in the brain, a clue that can help in the...
View ArticleResearch links high prevalence of HIV among migrant workers from western...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a global health problem, especially affecting developing countries due to lack of education and awareness of the possible means of transmission. HIV has remained...
View ArticleUnder the spell of right and wrong
Today, radical right-wing parties like the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) are full partners in debates in the political arena. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was a different story, according to Jan de...
View Article'Personalized medicine' as ideal in treatment of psychiatric disturbances
An ever widening gap is appearing between clinical practice and the treatment prescribed in DSM-5, the standard work on schizophrenia, psychiatrist Jan Dirk Blom will assert in his inaugural lecture on...
View ArticleOnline offerings can facilitate psychological improvement in suicidal people
Numerous offerings are available on the Internet for suicidal people desperately seeking advice. These can be divided into professional offerings run by crisis centres and those operated by...
View ArticleSuizidgefährdete Menschen können durch Online-Angebote eine psychologische...
Im Internet gibt es zahlreiche Angebote für suizidgefährdete Menschen, die in größter Not Rat suchen. Dabei sind von Krisenzentren professionell geführte Angebote von solchen zu unterscheiden, die...
View ArticleStudy Examines Effectiveness of Probation Program
Within the criminal justice community, an approach to community supervision known as Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) has generated widespread enthusiasm and praise as a way to...
View ArticleMaking funny work: How lucrative is humour?
Humour has long been recognised for its power to hurt, to offend and to ridicule, but it also has the capacity to entertain, to bring people together and make work life easier. New research now argues...
View ArticleSeven things you should know on Circular Economy and the Bioeconomy
15/11/2016, CommBeBiz, the network to communicate the bioeconomy, invites to a webinar under the title “Circular Economy – strategies for organisations in the bioeconomy” with Lise Molander, thinkstep,...
View ArticleExclusive: Biotechnology Leaders surveyed about impact of Trump presidency
The day following the election of Donald J. Trump as President, a survey (http://www.genengnews.com/gen-exclusives/biotechnology-leaders-surveyed-about-impact-of-trump-presidency/77900785) of leaders...
View ArticleThe power of expectation can restrain hyper-emotional memories in the brain
Researchers at Japan's RIKEN Brain Science Institute have identified a brain circuit that provides emotional memory tuning in rats. The creaking of an opening gate followed by a dog attack can disturb...
View ArticleBecoming parents means becoming unequal, a long interdisciplinary research...
""When a child arrives, many couples manifest incoherence between their values regarding equality and their actual behaviour. This paradox is explained by the "gendered master statuses" concept, which...
View ArticleDevenir parents, c’est devenir inégaux, conclut une longue recherche...
""De nombreux couples vivent une situation d’incohérence entre leurs valeurs affichées d’égalité et les comportements qu’ils adoptent l’arrivée d’un enfant. Un paradoxe qui s’explique par le concept de...
View ArticleMit den Kindern kommt die Ungleichheit, so das Fazit einer interdisziplinären...
""Bei vielen Paaren besteht eine Diskrepanz zwischen ihren egalitären Wertvorstellungen und dem Verhalten, das sie bei der Ankunft des ersten Kindes in der Familie annehmen. Dieses Paradoxon lässt sich...
View ArticleConfidence influences eyewitness memory of crimes
New University of Liverpool research has found that co-witnesses to a crime can contaminate each other’s memory of who committed it, but that the likelihood of this contamination occurring depends upon...
View ArticleFacing terrorism: a year of mobilization at the CNRS
After the Paris and Nice attacks, the CNRS endeavored to commit research resources to the fight against terrorism. We take a look back on a year of action that included a call for projects with an...
View ArticleFace aux attentats : un an de mobilisation au CNRS
Après les attentats de Paris puis de Nice, le CNRS s’est mobilisé pour engager les ressources de la recherche dans la lutte contre le terrorisme. Un appel à projets massivement suivi, dont une première...
View ArticleDoes WeChat Use Make People Feel Better?
Use of the instant messaging service WeChat, developed in China and used globally, may enhance peoples' feelings of overall satisfaction with life if they use it for fun and to pursue their interests....
View ArticleBreast is best message can be harmful
New research conducted by the University of Liverpool shows that mothers can experience negative emotions such as guilt, stigma and the need to defend their feeding choices regardless of how they feed...
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