Psychology

Telling the truth improves both mental and physical health, according to a study on honesty carried out by the University of Notre Dame (USA) and presented at the 120th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, which is held these days .

This term, proposed by the British psychologist David Lewis in the nineties, gives name to the fatigue or tiredness that produces handling excessive amounts of information, and that is usually accompanied by symptoms such as stomach pain, vision loss, difficulty paying attention and anxiety.

We all know that when we feel good we smile, but does it also work the other way around? Researchers at the University of Kansas (USA) have studied the health benefits of different types of smiles and have come to the conclusion that this gesture helps us feel better after episodes of stress.

Admire the landscape from the top of a mountain, see the infinite Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower, contemplate a waterfall several meters high or relive the adventure of the first astronauts who stepped on the Moon in a projection of images and music. .. all are overwhelming visions, which can even make the hair stand on end for some. Now, a study published in the journal Psychological Science reveals that this awe also makes us more patient, more willing to help others and, if that were not enough, it makes us perceive that we have more free time.

Social interactions cause our brains to behave according to different rules and could influence the way we make decisions, according to a study published in the journal Science. Neural activity in a small region of the brain called the temporal-parietal junction can be used to predict what decisions we will make playing poker but only against a real human opponent.

Researchers at the University of Kansas (USA) have shown that we can judge with 90% accuracy what are age, income, political ideology

Is just 140 characters enough to identify a psychopath? This is the question launched by the Online Privacy Foundation, which has launched a social experiment to find a connection between the content of tweets and psychopathy. To carry it out, they have teamed up with Kaggle, an original company specialized in data mining that works under the motto "we turn data science into sport".

Winners are more aggressive than losers, according to a study by Ohio State University (USA) that reveals that the winners of a competitive task act more aggressively against the people they have defeated than the losers against the victors . "It seems that the people who are victorious have a tendency to trample the defeated," says Brad Bushman.