Psychology & Psychiatry
Do people transmit happiness by smell?
As emotions go, happiness usually hides in plain sight: seen in a broad smile, heard in a raucous laugh, felt in a big hug.
May 26, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Dampening of positive feelings found to predict postpartum depressive symptoms
A new KU Leuven study shows for the first time that the dampening or suppression of positive emotions plays an important role in the development of postpartum depression. This has implications for the treatment of depressed ...
Apr 29, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Social giving makes us happier
People usually feel good when they make a charitable donation, but they feel even better if they make the donation directly to someone they know or in a way that builds social connection. Research to be published in the International ...
Aug 20, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Seeing happiness in ambiguous facial expressions reduces aggressive behaviour, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—Encouraging young people at high-risk of criminal offending and delinquency to see happiness rather than anger in facial expressions results in a decrease in their levels of anger and aggression, new research ...
Mar 27, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Positive mental health boosts lifespan, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—People who are flourishing – both feeling happy and functioning well in their lives – are 60 percent less likely to die prematurely, finds a major study that followed more than 3,000 U.S. adults over ...
Nov 15, 2012
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Immunology
Can you die of a broken heart? Bereavement can weaken the body's ability to fight infections
(Medical Xpress) -- Immunity experts at the University of Birmingham have found biological evidence to suggest that bereavement lowers physical immunity, putting older people at risk of life-threatening infections..
Mar 28, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
High blood pressure may lead to missed emotional cues
Your ability to recognize emotional content in faces and texts is linked to your blood pressure, according to a Clemson University researcher.
Nov 3, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The secret to successful aging
Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, ...
Jul 14, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers look for ingredients of happiness around the world
In 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that all humans seek to fulfill a hierarchy of needs, which he represented with a pyramid. The pyramid's base, which he believed must come first, signified basic needs ...
Jun 29, 2011
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