Seeing Red Or Feeling Blue? People Around The World Make Similar Associations Between Colours And Emotions
By Emma Young
As an English-speaker, I might “see red” with anger, go “green” with envy or, on a bad day, “feel blue”. To me, it seems natural to associate certain colours with particular emotions — but is the same true for people around the world? And if so, do we all make the same emotion/colour matchings? These questions have been investigated in a new study, published in Psychological Science, which has produced some fascinating results.
An international team of 36 researchers, led by Domicele Jonauskaite at the University of Lausanne, analysed data gathered through the on...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Emotion Perception Source Type: blogs
Study: Elders today are in significantly better shape –physically and cognitively–than three decades ago
Conclusions: The results of this study provide strong evidence that cognitive performance is better in more recent cohorts of older people compared to their counterparts measured 28 years earlier. (Editor’s Note: The cognitive performance measures used underlie traits such as memory, attention, processing speed and problem solving.)
The Study in Context:
Brain scans show lower accumulation of tau and amyloid pathology among cognitive “super-agers”
Reminder: A brain-friendly lifestyle is the best approach to delay cognitive decline and dementia
Cognitive training, diet, exercise, and vascular management seen to impr...
Source: SharpBrains - September 23, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness cognitive decline cognitive performance tests cognitive-abilities cognitive-performance Cognitive-tests elders lower cognitive abilities older Source Type: blogs
Musings On Music: Seven Insights From Psychology
By Emma Young
Music and humans go back a very long way. The earliest accepted instruments, made from bones, appear on the European scene about 40,000 years ago. But for perhaps at least a million years before that, our ancestors had the throat architecture that in theory would have allowed them to sing.
All kinds of ideas have been put forward for why and how music came to matter so much to us. But what’s abundantly clear is that it does matter; there isn’t a society out there that doesn’t make and listen to music. And new research is now revealing all manner of psychological and neurological effects…
But what abo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Emotion Feature Memory Music Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 29th 2020
In conclusion, metabolomics is a promising approach for the assessment of biological age and appears complementary to established epigenetic clocks.
Sedentary Behavior Raises the Risk of Cancer Mortality
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/06/sedentary-behavior-raises-the-risk-of-cancer-mortality/
Living a sedentary lifestyle is known to be harmful to long term health, raising the risk of age-related disease and mortality. Researchers here show that a sedentary life specifically increases cancer mortality, and does so independently of other factors. This is one of many, many reasons to maintain a r...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 28, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Using the Metabolome to Produce an Aging Clock
In conclusion, metabolomics is a promising approach for the assessment of biological age and appears complementary to established epigenetic clocks.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13149 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - June 24, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Please Begone From My Reality, Foul Trump Supporters
I just want to be very clear about something. I don’t tolerate the presence of Trump supporters spouting their nonsense in my personal space, which includes my email inbox, social media, and personal friendship circles.
On social media I unapologetically unfriend, block, and banish Trump supporters on sight (or smell). If I happen to have missed anyone, please let me know, and I shall remedy that promptly.
I also enjoy it each time, much like people derive pleasure from popping bubble wrap. If you identify as a Trump supporter and would prefer to self-pop, that’s fine too. I’d genuinely prefer it if...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Values Source Type: blogs
The Moustache of Mordor
John Bolton is an extremist nut-job whose principal foreign policy goal has always been to start World War III. He was the National Security Advisor from from April 2018 to September 2019, including the time during which Resident Dump threatened to withhold military aid from Ukraine unless they announced a fake investigation of Joe Biden. The House Intelligence Committee wanted him to testify in the impeachment inquiry but he refused, while teasing that he had damning evidence to give. This was all part of a marketing campaign for his book.Now some reporters have gotten ahold of the book. If you want to know some of the mo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 18, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Reduce Daily Worry by Navigating the Noise
What could possibly go wrong? Well, pretty much everything — says your brain. In today’s Psych Central Podcast, Gabe talks with Kevin Stacey, an effectiveness expert, author and former brain imaging specialist. Kevin explains how and why your brain often acts as your worst enemy, giving you a constant flow of fake news.
What can we do about it? Can we make our brain a more positive ally? Tune in for a great discussion on reigning in your inner critic.
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Source: World of Psychology - June 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Anxiety and Panic Brain and Behavior General Habits Interview LifeHelper Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Self-Help The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Two Supertypes of Coronavirus: “East Asian” and “European”
Andrei Illarionov andNatalya PivovarovaThe Los Alamos National Laboratory has posteda new study, as reported this weekby theWashington Post andtheLos Angeles Times, that finds that the strain of the novel coronavirus that emerged in Europe and has spread to much of the world is different than the strain of the virus at its origin in China. Those findingsare consistent with our research which we posted (in Russian) on April 15, 2020. Although we are not epidemiologists, we are posting our slightly updated analysis below in English in the interest of sharing what may be significant findings with a wider audience. We welcome ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Andrei Illarionov, Natalya Pivovarova Source Type: blogs
Keeping Kids Healthy in the Age of Coronavirus: Dr. Greene on The People ’ s Pharmacy
Transcript
[00:00:00] Joe Graedon: I’m Joe Graedon.
[00:00:01] Terry Graedon: And I’m Terry Graedon. Welcome to this podcast of the People’s Pharmacy.
[00:00:06] Joe Graedon: You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at PeoplesPharmacy.com.
[00:00:14] How’s your family holding up during the coronavirus pandemic? Isolation can be especially challenging for children.
[00:00:22] This is the People’s Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graedon.
[00:00:33] Terry Graedon: Children appear less susceptible than older adults to serious complications of COVID-19...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 21, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog COVID COVID-19 Viral Infection Source Type: blogs
Keeping Kids Healthy in the Age of Coronavirus: Dr. Greene on The People s Pharmacy
Transcript
[00:00:00] Joe Graedon: I’m Joe Graedon.
[00:00:01] Terry Graedon: And I’m Terry Graedon. Welcome to this podcast of the People’s Pharmacy.
[00:00:06] Joe Graedon: You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at PeoplesPharmacy.com.
[00:00:14] How’s your family holding up during the coronavirus pandemic? Isolation can be especially challenging for children.
[00:00:22] This is the People’s Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graedon.
[00:00:33] Terry Graedon: Children appear less susceptible than older adults to serious complications of COVID-19...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 21, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog COVID COVID-19 Viral Infection Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 6th 2020
This study delves into the mechanisms by which a short period of fasting can accelerate wound healing. Fasting triggers many of the same cellular stress responses, such as upregulated autophagy, as occur during the practice of calorie restriction. It isn't exactly the same, however, so it is always worth asking whether any specific biochemistry observed in either case does in fact occur in both situations. In particular, the period of refeeding following fasting appears to have beneficial effects that are distinct from those that occur while food is restricted.
Multiple forms of therapeutic fasting have been repor...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Genetic Variants Associated with Risk of Hypertension and Obesity also Correlate with Reduced Life Expectancy
Identification of genetic variants associated with specific conditions has been a going concern for some time, but the creation of large national databases of genetic and biometric data in a number of countries has greatly expanded this area of study. In today's research materials, scientists demonstrate one way in which this can be used, as a confirmation of the importance of hypertension and obesity in present variations in human life expectancy. People with genetic variants that increase the odds of suffering either of these conditions tend to live shorter lives, something that also shows up in standard epidemiological ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 30, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 113 | Oura, Heartbeat Health, Vault & Bloomer Tech
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are covering all the hard hitting news while surviving COVID-19. Before we turn to deals, Jess asks for my thoughts on the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association asking for $100 billion from Congress. For our funding news, Finnish smart ring startup Oura raises $28 million in a Series B; Heartbeat Health raises $8.2 million in a Series A for virtual cardiovascular care; Vault raises $30 million in a Series A, entering an already-crowded field alongside Roman and Hims; and Bloomer Tech raises $3 million for their smart bra. Finall...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Start-Ups Bloomer Tech Heartbeat Health Oura Vault Source Type: blogs
World Happiness And Psychedelic Placebos: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
The 2020 World Happiness Report has been published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, with Finland ranking as the world’s happiest country. “Happiness” in the report doesn’t refer to the expression of emotion per se, writes Maria Cramer at the New York Times, but is rather about a sense of satisfaction in life and belief that members of one’s community care for each other — a particularly poignant definition given present circumstances.
An imaging technique adapted from geophysics could provide a new...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
