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Feeling Disgust May Enhance Our Ability to Detect Impurities
Disgust – it’s an emotion we experience when we encounter things that are dirty, impure, or otherwise contaminated. From an evolutionary standpoint, experiencing the intense, visceral sense of revulsion that comes with disgust presumably helps
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Babies learn to walk after dozens of falls per day
Asian News International: Infants learn new things and acquire new skills every day and researchers have suggested that the abilities that they demonstrate early on can shape the development of skills later in life, in
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To Clear Negative Thoughts, Physically Throw Them Away: Study
The Huffington Post: Bothered by negative thoughts? Clearing your mind of them could be as simple as writing them down and physically throwing them away, according to a new study, published in the journal Psychological
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Soldiers’ stress may start early
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Childhood abuse and previous exposure to violence may raise a soldier’s risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study says. Researchers followed 746 Danish soldiers before, during, and after deployment
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Don’t knock daydreamers, they could be onto something: Great ideas come after some ‘time out’, study shows
The Daily Mail: From Einstein to Newton, some of the best ideas and most important scientific breakthroughs have been dreamt up during a little ‘down time’. And in news that will cheer bored office workers
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Your Secret Weapon for More Self-Control
Women’s Health: Struggling to stay on task at work? Gargle some Gatorade. Swishing a sugary beverage in your mouth can help boost your self-control, says a recent study published in the journal Psychological Science. Researchers
