Can you imagine that when you look at yourself in the mirror every morning what you see before you was a disfigured person that generates a huge rejection? This is what happens to patients who suffer from a body dysmorphic disorder, a disease that affects one in every hundred people and is characterized by excessive concern for some real or imagined but almost imperceptible body imperfection. By studying the activity of their brains, UCLA scientists have found that the problem lies in a malfunction in the area that is responsible for processing visual stimuli
The social network Facebook is capable of managing thousands of contacts. But for our brain, the limit of friends we can handle is 150, according to Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Oxford. His studies indicate that in human groups greater than that amount there is no cohesion and relationships deteriorate.
Women with blonde hair could have a competitive advantage when it comes to finding a job or reaching a personal goal, behaving more aggressively and decisively than brunettes and redheads, according to research from the University of California published in the journal PNAS. .
Can you resist trying a chocolate bonbon while on a diet? And fulfill your New Year's resolutions to exercise every day? New research from the University of Georgia (USA) reveals that both self-control and lack of it are contagious, and that observing impulsive people influences us negatively.
A University of Rochester study reveals that workers, from construction workers to doctors to lawyers, feel in a better mood, have more vitality and suffer less pain from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. It's the "weekend" effect, as psychologist Richard Ryan concludes.
The most common phobias are phobia of blood (hematophobia), of hospitals (nosocomephobia), of closed places (claustrophobia) or too open (agoraphobia) to the dark (scotophobia), to spiders (arachnophobia), to cockroaches ..., but there are many more.
Loneliness, like a bad cold, tends to spread quickly in human groups, a new joint study from the universities of Chicago, California and Harvard reveals.
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.
