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Nursing a broken heart? How taking a paracetamol could dull the pain of rejection
Daily Mail: It’s what songwriters have been saying for years, and now scientists agree – love really does hurt. But what the ballads don’t tell us is that a simple dose of paracetamol could help
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Could The Grand Canyon Cure Your Depression?
Business Insider: Yes. Might be time to visit the Grand Canyon or take in an amazing sunset. Via Wray Herbert: Psychological scientists think so, too, and indeed there has been burgeoning interest in this powerful
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Lin-Sanity: What’s Behind the Phenom?
Discovery News: Apart from his proven skills, Jeremy Lin, the remarkable young point guard for the New York Knicks, is benefiting from a combination of psychological factors that have conspired to help him obtain dizzying
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Broken Hearts Really Hurt
“Broken-hearted” isn’t just a metaphor—social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of a new paper published in Current Directions in
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Peter Ayton: To Risk or Not to Risk
Peter Ayton, a researcher from City University London, UK, investigates how people make judgments and decisions under conditions of risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity. Ayton will be speaking at the Invited Symposium Emotional Influences on Decision
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Our rational thinking is affected by bodily quirks
Yahoo News India: We are actually kidding ourselves when we take pride in our rational thinking – who knows when it may be hijacked by quirks. One particularly powerful influence may be our own bodies
