Psychology Around the Net: March 10, 2018

Happy Saturday, sweet readers! This week’s Psychology Around the Net dives into a new study on holding hands to reduce pain, the role of neuroscience in the courtroom, one psychiatrist’s advice on getting over yourself, and more. Study Shows Holding Hands Can Sync Brainwaves and Ease Pain: According to a recent study, holding hands with a loved one can help your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs and reduce pain, but it doesn’t stop there. The more empathy your partner shows, the more your brainwaves will sync up, and the more your brainwaves sync up, the more your pain reduces. “My Brain Made Me Do It” Is Becoming a More Common Criminal Defense: Not only are criminal defense strategies relying more and more on psychological evaluations, behavioral tests, and other types of neurological evidence — or lack of — to potentially determine punishment, and ethicists and scientists are gathering to consider where neuroscience belongs in the courtroom. How to Get Over Yourself, With Author and Psychiatrist Mark Epstein: During this episode of The Upgrade by Lifehacker, author and psychiatrist Mark Epstein discusses the ego. More specifically, how psychotherapy and Buddhism come to the same conclusion regarding egos: we suffer when we let our egos have free reign, but we’re free when we learn to let them go. Hawaii’s Secret To Happiness in 5 Words: Finding “secrets to happiness” might sound cliche, but th...
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