Psychology

American researchers have shown that bullying or bullying is transferred in adulthood to the workplace and is directly related to the physical appearance of the person. Less handsome workers are more frequently confronted with this type of aggressive behavior. The physical plays an even more important role than the personality in determining whether psychological abuse is suffered in the workplace.

Scientists from the University of Victoria in Wellington, New Zealand, publish a study that supports the theory that participating in painful rituals increases the civic and caring attitude of the individual. Joseph Bulbulia, Ron Fischer and Paul Reddish are the researchers who for the first time have transferred their research to a natural human environment in order to discover why religious rituals still survive in modern societies.

In addition to making us brown, sunlight has other influences on us. One of its physiological effects has to do with vitamin D, whose blood levels depend basically on sunlight and, less importantly, on nutrition. Skin exposed to UV light produces vitamin D3, which is then transformed by the liver and kidney. Vitamin D is important for bones, its role in depression has been studied and it has also been linked to cognitive functions.

It hurts more without thinking that someone is intentionally hurting us, and less if we consider that the pain has been caused by a mere accident, as Kurt Gray recently proved in a study published in the journal Psychological Science. In addition, statistics reveal that individuals with lower educational levels suffer pain for longer throughout their lives, 12% more to be exact.

Athletes who are defeated in a competition are twice as likely to be injured than those who win, because the psychological effect of being defeated makes them more vulnerable to suffering other types of problems, according to a study developed by the Sports Psychology Unit of the University of Murcia.

A controversial field of study and not always well accepted has been dedicated to establishing the intelligence level of a country and its differences with other states. The starting hypothesis for this type of study is that it is possible to extrapolate individual differences in IQ between members of different countries to the general population of those nations in question. Thus, although not without criticism, the concept of 'national intelligence quotient' developed by Lynn & Vanhanen has been used to study the relationships between variables such as educational level, religiosity or certain aspects related to health with the intelligence of individuals. people who make up a nation.

Successful men have certain distinctive features on their faces, as shown in a study by the University of Sussex published in the British Journal of Psychology. The research is based on the facial width-to-length ratio or FWH index.

According to a study published recently in the British Journal of Psychology, the anxiety caused in some students when facing a test is not only not harmful, but it also makes short-term memory work better and better scores are obtained. According to Matthew Owens, from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), experiments show that a little anxiety can be a boost that helps motivate us to achieve better academic results.