A team of scientists has shown that the brains of shy people - some as famous as Agatha Christie, Jorge Luis Borges or Albert Einstein - perceive the world in a different way and show more intense brain activity when faced with certain stimuli.
Genetics or environment? What weighs more when learning to read? According to a new study by scientists at Florida State University (USA) and published in the journal Science, quality teaching allows children's natural reading skills to emerge. However, in classrooms with less-trained teachers, all students are consistently low, regardless of genetics.
Although hypochondria is considered a mild psychological problem, when it is exacerbated it can lead to more serious ailments within what experts call fictitious disorders. Among the most extreme are Munchhausen syndrome, Münchhausen by proxy and Cotard syndrome.
A study on aging carried out on subjects aged 70 to 90 states that the older we get, the more our differences increase. "We view older people as a homogeneous group, but the reality is that the differences between individuals increase as we age," says Bo G. Eriksson.
Spanish researchers have confirmed the usefulness of the DUWAS scale to measure work addiction, a disorder that currently affects around 12% of working people in Spain. "Work addiction is understood as a psychosocial damage characterized by two main dimensions: excessive work and compulsive work," explains Mario Del Líbano, lead author of the article, published in the Spanish journal Psicothema.
In the late 1950s, San Francisco cardiologists M. Friedman and Ray H. Rosenman noted a relationship between heart disease risk and behavior pattern ....
A new study by psychologists at St Andrews University (Scotland) reveals that we tend to identify men with narrower masculine faces as honest people. On the other hand, a broad masculine face generates distrust.
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in the United States, have linked human aversion to losing money to a specific structure of the brain, the amygdala. The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides new data on economic behavior and on the role of this almond-shaped brain structure, which records rapid emotional reactions and is implicated in depression, anxiety and autism.
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.
