Tag Archives: Mind

Happiness: The Most Popular Course In The World?

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@giorodriguez UC Berkeley’s “The Science of Happiness” is poised to make MOOC history. Why? At a time when books on happiness are so plentiful that pundits are saying they’ve jumped the shark, and...

Sleep Problem Linked To Degenerative Brain Disease

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A little-known sleep disorder that causes you to act out your dreams can predict the future onset of Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, or another brain disease, new research shows. In fact, 80 to 90 percent...

Opinion Leaders Accept Cash for Social-Network Referrals More Than Others

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If consumers are given tangible rewards for online referrals, not unpredictably, they pass along the information to their networks more than without these payments. However, the surprising behavior...
    






Prescribing Exercise before Medication for Depression

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The Atlantic reports: Depression is the most common mental illness—affecting a staggering 25 percent of Americans—but a growing body of research suggests that one of its best cures is cheap and...

How A Tiny Bit Of Procrastination Can Help You Make Better Decisions

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Decision-making is what you might call “practical science.” Findings on how we make decisions have direct applicability to life outside the psychology lab, and in recent years there’s been quite a...

Depression Can be Screened by Waiting Room Depression Test

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We all know that so many silent victims suffer from depression and anxiety yet fail to reveal their psychiatric diseases to anyone. The stigma that mental illness carries is most probably the last...

Inmate IQ scores raises questions about death penalty

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68-year old Freddie Lee Hall, a Florida inmate convicted in 1978 for murdering a 21-year old pregnant woman, believes that he is safe from the death penalty because he is mentally disabled. Now the...

Using Big Data And Game Play To Improve Mental Fitness

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By Bonnie Feldman This article was written together with Ellen M. Martin and Melinda Speckmann. Games have been part of human culture for millennia. It is no surprise that elements of play can be...