Whether you like spicy food or not depends largely on your personality, according to a University of Pennsylvania paper presented at the latest annual meeting of the US Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).
A new study from the University of Southampton (UK) reveals that individuals who are in financial debt are three times more likely to have mental health problems than those who are not in debt.
We tend to think that very rarely we come across someone on the street who asks us for the time while fantasizing about torturing us. However, a new study claims that people who enjoy doing harm are more abundant than we think. Sadism may not be reserved only for that disturbed minority that forensic police films show us, and it may be a common behavior of daily life that manifests itself, for example, when we decide to kill an insect.
High school students who have friends with a higher GPA tend to improve their grade over the course of a year, according to a study published in PLOS One by Hiroki Sayama of Binghamton University (USA) and his colleagues.
Although being thorough in what we do is often considered a virtue, the truth is that perfectionism can become a double-edged sword. Recent studies suggest that the costs of this personality trait outweigh its benefits. These are four scientifically proven drawbacks of being a perfectionist.
Philippa Lally and her colleagues at University College London (UK) have studied how habits are formed in everyday life. Through a study with 96 volunteers published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, they found that as we repeat an action or a choice (what to eat, what to drink, what exercise to practice ...) the automatism increases, although the The time it takes people to make a behavior automatic and not need the will to carry it out varies a lot, ranging between 18 and 254 days, although the maximum is around 84 days of repetition.
As a general rule, we feel safe if people are located at a minimum distance of 20 to 40 centimeters away from our face, which are the physical limits of the peripersonal space, that is, the invisible area that surrounds us and that represents the margin of security between our body and the rest of the world.
When we are told that someone says “hear voices” from people who are not really present, the term “hallucination” comes to mind. Hallucinations are a phenomenon that we are used to associating with mental disorders such as schizophrenia. However, we can all suffer them sometime ...
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
