10 Most Thought-Provoking Psychology Studies Of 2022
Fascinating new theories of consciousness, the alienating effects of smartphones and what Namibian nomads can teach us about relationships. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 26, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Most popular Source Type: blogs
What Namibian Nomads Can Teach Us About Relationships (M)
People say they want someone more attractive than themselves, but this is not the key to a successful relationship. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Relationships subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
More Laughing, More Thinking
By KIM BELLARD
There was a lot going on this week, as there always is, including the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the beginning of the NFL season, so you may have missed a big event: the announcement of the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Awards (no, those are not typos).
What’s that you say — you don’t know the Ig Nobel Awards? These annual awards, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, seek to:
…honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in scie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Research health research Ignobel Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Rabies – a dumb disease
Dog vaccination programs are the most effective way to prevent Rabies
Rabies is endemic to over 150 countries, and according to the World Health Organization, 99% of all transmissions to humans are from dogs, potentially bringing into question the animal’s status as the ‘man’s best friend’.
In Europe, southern Africa, and parts of North America, most cases are acquired from wild carnivores; mongooses, and vampire bats in Latin America and the Caribbean. In more recent years, humans have acquired rabies from inhalation of aerosols in bat caves, ingestion of dogs and cats for food, ticks, cart-scratches...
Source: GIDEON blog - September 28, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: Epidemiology News Source Type: blogs
A radical new theory proposes that facial expressions are not emotional displays, but “tools for social influence”
Expressing sadness or seeking protection?
By Emma Young
You’re at a ten-pin bowling alley with some friends, you bowl your first ball – and it’s a strike. Do you instantly grin with delight? Not according to a study of bowlers, who smiled not at a moment of triumph but rather when they pivoted in their lanes, to look at their fellow bowlers.
That study provided the earliest evidence for a controversial hypothesis, the Behavioural Ecology View (BECV) of facial displays, outlined in detail in a new opinion piece in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Carlos Crivelli at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK and Alan Fridlun...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Faces Social Source Type: blogs
“More than twice the size of Germany, but with just over 2...
"More than twice the size of Germany, but with just over 2 million people, #Namibia is one of the least densely populated countries on the planet. Or as the writer @bysarahkhan put it in @nytimestravel, the country is blessed with "plenty of space, but few humans to fill it." The @nytimes staffer @joaosilva_nyt photographed the road (or lack of) to Sandwich Harbour, a lagoon on the Atlantic coast, while retracing @bysarahkhan's 7-day, 1,500-mile road trip for #nytassignment. Visit the link in our profile to read more about @bysarahkhan's road trip and see more photos of Namibia's surreal desert landscape. #regram from @nyt...
Source: Kidney Notes - January 29, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Comparing children's sharing tendencies across diverse human societies
Up until about the age of seven, children across the world show similar levels of sharing behaviour as revealed by their choices in a simple economic game. The finding comes courtesy of Bailey House and his colleagues who tested 326 children aged three to fourteen from six different cultural groups: urban Americans from Los Angeles; horticultural Shuar from Ecuador; horticultural and marine foraging Fijians from Yasawa Island; hunter-gathering Akas from the Central African Republic; pastoral, horticultural Himbas from Namibia; and hunter-gatherer Martus from Australia.
In one game, the children had to choose whether ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
i-calQ Point-of-Care Diagnostic Smartphone Sensor for Remote Environments
One of the finalists in the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE is i-calQ, a Salt Lake City, Utah firm that’s developed a portable smartphone-based diagnostic technology that it hopes can bring clinical care to remote parts of the world, and maybe even reach your home. The system integrates a smartphone app, a biosensor, and a disposable test cassette to be able to spot specific compounds in blood or saliva.
So far the company has focused on designing a test for thyroid function that measures relevant hormone levels in blood, something typically requiring a lab and a few spare days to get the results. The i-calQ test, on the ot...
Source: Medgadget - August 28, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Net News Public Health Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - The Barn Swallows of Unity Farm
One of the side effects of creating the orchard at Unity farm was opening about 2 acres of airspace adjacent to our pasture. This has attracted many new species of birds which now dance and dive in the clearing between our woodland and marsh. Since adding the orchard we've seen a significant increase in our barn swallow population. Throughout the day, at least 5 adults dash at high speed around their own open air playground, eating mosquitos and enjoying their social community of birds.Our barn has two sliding doors which open to the male and female paddocks. The swallows retreat to the ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - July 18, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
rambo
south africa is such an interesting place. things happen here that surely can't happen anywhere else in the world. take illegal mining in barberton for example.
barberton has some of the oldest deep gold mines in the country, maybe even the world. the gold rush in barberton happened long before gold was even discovered in johannesburg. of course the massive amounts of gold in johannesburg drew all the prospectors away and left barberton as a tiny, insignificant lowveld town with ghost mines. as time went on, it once again became financially worthwhile for the mines to be opened, although really only on a much smaller leve...
Source: other things amanzi - July 6, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
rambo
south africa is such an interesting place. things happen here that surely can't happen anywhere else in the world. take illegal mining in barberton for example.barberton has some of the oldest deep gold mines in the country, maybe even the world. the gold rush in barberton happened long before gold was even discovered in johannesburg. of course the massive amounts of gold in johannesburg drew all the prospectors away and left barberton as a tiny, insignificant lowveld town with ghost mines. as time went on, it once again became financially worthwhile for the mines to be opened, although really only on a much smaller level....
Source: other things amanzi - July 6, 2012 Category: Surgery Authors: Bongi Source Type: blogs
Forced Sterilisation in Namibia
The BBC reported this week that three women in Namibia are suing the state for performing a sterilisation without consent. There appears to be some uncertainty about the degree of force because of difficulties during consultation. A legal representative remarked that procedures are not always discussed clearly and the eleven indigenous languages create, at times, a language barrier. The women have been protesting and carrying placards which state “My body, my womb, my right”. Now, for the next crucial point: these women were sterilised following a positive diagnosis of HIV. Coming from a society (UK) that promotes...
Source: Women's Bioethics Blog - June 7, 2010 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: AIDS forced sterilization HIV Namibia Source Type: blogs
