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Depression and the emotions associated with it can be contagious, according to a new study. 
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Study finds that people believe they’ll be happy in the future, even when they imagine the many bad things that could happen, because they discount the possibility that those bad things will actually occur.
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A leading scientist says that the human phenomenon of emotional crying is hugely important and developed as a way for humans to communicate how they feel before the emergence of language.
Eileen Marable's curator insight,
February 10, 2013 12:25 PM
Having had to work daily with people who spoke a different language I found it amazing how much is communicated just with our faces, body language and the emotions they reveal! Great post.
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Why do people so often make decisions that their future selves regret? One possibility is that people have a fundamental misconception about their future selves. Time is a powerful force that transforms people’s preferences, reshapes their values, and alters their personalities, and we suspect that people generally underestimate the magnitude of those changes. In other words, people may believe that who they are today is pretty much who they will be tomorrow, despite the fact that it isn’t who they were yesterday. More: http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2013/01/the-end-of-history-illusion.html
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Gary Sherman and his colleagues have published research showing how prudish disgust-sensitivity is associated with a superior ability to detect impurities.
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"Disgust not only makes people want to avoid impurities but also makes people better able to see them"
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Theresa Liao's curator insight,
December 13, 2012 8:52 PM
The placebo effect is an interesting area of study. Personally, what's weird to me is that even though I am aware of the effect, that brand name ibuprofen and generic ibuprofen are pretty much the same, I cannot take generic ibuprofen tablets because they don't work on me (after several attempted I simply gave up and just stuck with brand name).
This video shares some interesting aspects of placebo effects. 
Sakis Koukouvis's comment,
December 14, 2012 2:33 AM
Oh, yes it's weird. It's a kind of mind's power.
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Hristo Bojinov wants you to forget your password. More precisely, he wants you to never really know it in the first place. Bojinov, a computer scientist
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After all, when it comes to gift-giving, isn’t it the thought that counts? Not exactly.
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How can this research help you with your holiday gift-giving?
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Under threat of violence, we have a natural instinct to stick together. Researchers say this basic urge explains their seemingly odd observation that feeling threatened, rather than making people bristle, can actually increase their agreeableness.
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Not to be outdone by "runner's high", music has been found to increase endorphins and increase a body's threshold for pain.
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Humans can smell fear and disgust, and the emotions are contagious, according to a new study. The findings, published Nov. 5 in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that humans communicate via smell just like other animals.
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What could most of us could do to chill out and expand our subjective sense of time? Feel a sense of awe more often! Rudd et. al. do a series of experiments illustrating that it expands our perception of time, alters decision making, and enhances well-being.
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A new study provides tentative support for this idea. Marjaana Lindeman and her colleagues report that atheists get just as stressed as religious people when they ask God to do nasty things, as in "I dare God to make someone murder my parents cruelly."
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Study: Consumers avoid high-deductible plans if they expect to reduce their use of medical care.
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In an analysis of the data of 300.000 players of an online game society, Michael Szell and Stefan Thurner found that women have more communication partners. They also reciprocate friendships, organize in clusters, take fewer risks than men and show a preference for stability in their networks. On the contrary, men try to talk most often with those who talk with many, reciprocate friendships with other males much less frequently, and respond quite quickly to female friendship initiatives. They also tend to have less cooperative links with other males, which indicates a more competitive approach.
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Researchers said that weight-based stigmatization was now on par with racial discrimination.
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How our modular brains lead us to deny and distort evidence
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There is no unified “self” that generates internally consistent and seamlessly coherent beliefs devoid of conflict. Instead we are a collection of distinct but interacting modules often at odds with one another.
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Placebo, the positive effect of a drug that lacks any beneficial ingredients, has been researched for centuries but remain a mystery for psychologists and neuroscientists alike.
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Forbes asks if it’s “the new productivity killer;” Cachinko calls it “the silent killer of employee morale;” CNN says it’s “the new stress.” Just what is plaguing so many employees throughout the world? Boredom.
Sakis Koukouvis's insight:
Kingdom of Boredom
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During the live question and answer session at Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist was asked, “What if we could stop all hallucinations?
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Featuring Oliver Sacks Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Rather than try to prevent the (inevitable) shocks of life, we may do better to take advantage of them when they arise, argues Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the strongest critics of economic policy before the financial collapse of 2007.
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If you’re struggling to keep your self-control on track, keep a bottle of lemonade made with real sugar handy. You won’t have to drink it, just swish and gargle when you’re feeling like giving up. That’s the finding of new research published in the journal Psychological Science.
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