Psychology

If you put a price on your time, you are more likely to get impatient when you don't use it to earn money. And that means that in your leisure time you can't be happy. According to a study by the University of Toronto (Canada) published in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, considering time in terms of money can negatively affect human well-being.

We have a notion that Facebook can be a great place to strengthen relationships between people. But in practice, individuals with low self-esteem behave counterproductively in this social network.

In both positive and negative experiences, when something is about to end it gives us an "extra" feeling of pleasure. This is what researcher Ed O? Brien, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan (USA), says in the latest issue of the journal 'Psychological Science'.

Narcissistic people, and especially men, could be negatively affected by their health due to this personality trait, suggests a study from the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia published in the journal PLoS ONE.

This is the conclusion reached by a team of European psychologists after studying the responses of 10,000 subjects to a personality test called 16PF that analyzes 15 different traits. As the authors explain in the journal 'PLoS One', this model allows a better analysis of the personality differences between men and women than the classic studies based on only 5 aspects (The Big Five, that is, emotional stability, friendliness, extroversion, openness to experience and responsibility).

After the death of a loved one, the risk of having a heart attack increases. The greatest danger comes the day after the loss, when the risk of heart attack increases 21 times. During the first week, the chances are six times higher than in normal situations.

Adrian North, from the University of Leicester (UK), has concluded that it is. In a study published in the scientific journal Nature, North revealed that fast-paced pieces of music lead customers to walk faster, while slow pieces encourage consumers to walk slowly and pause more to look at products.

Shyness can become a serious problem that prevents some people from coping with everyday life situations normally. To combat it, a group of researchers from Concordia University in Montreal (Canada) has developed an oxytocin spray, which could be used to encourage extraversion, improve self-confidence in social contexts and combat shyness.