Stress (18)
This section contains news that is related to the " stress" sections of A Level Psychology specifications.
Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:39
Reduce Stress By Doing Something Delightful
Pleasure is not the only benefit of eating nice food or taking part in delightful activities, according to new research. Pleasure also inhibits anxiety and reduces the stress response. So eating a cream cake could be good for your health... (in moderation)
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Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:36
High Emotional Intelligence Leads To Greater Job Satisfaction
Researchers from the University of Haifa in Israel have found that employees with high levels of Emotional Intelligence are more satisfied at work and were more committed to their organisations than other employees. This is presumably because those high in emotional intelligence are better able to manage stressful situations than those low in the trait.
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Monday, 18 January 2010 08:10
Kids Are Good For Your Health
You might think that having children would increase your stress levels, but according to research from Brigham Young University in Utah, parenthood is associated with lower blood pressure, particularly in females.
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 08:56
Earth Shattering New Research Finds Weekends are Better Than Weekdays
Okay, maybe it isn't earth shattering but Psychologists Richard Ryan from the University of Rochester, Jessey Bernstein, from McGill University, and Kirk Warren Brown, professor from Virginia Commonwealth University have found that even people with great jobs find weekends more enjoyable. Importantly, they gained insight into why weekends are important to our mental and physical health.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 11:06
Review of Research into Stress and the Immune System
A new report by Janice Keicolt-Glaser, a name familiar to most A Level Psychology students and teachers, reviews research into how stress can affect health. The article, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, will be of interest to AS psychology students studying the AQA specification.
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Monday, 20 April 2009 18:53
Can Laughter Beat Stress?
In the 1970s writer and magazine editor Norman Cousins was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and told that stress could make his condition worse. Maybe positive emotion, such as laughter could make it better, he thought; so he watched lots of funny videos and TV shows. His disease went into remission and he wrote a sucessful book based on his experiences.
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 13:49
Stress Leads to Poor Financial Decision Making
According to new research in the journal Psychological Science, we are more likely to make poor financial decisions when we are stressed. Worryingly, this could lead to more stress and more financial woes.
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:00
Sensitive Parenting Reduces Effect of Stress Genes
New research relevant to the Developmental Psychology ( attachment), stress and the Debates sections of the AQA-A A Level Psychology specification,shows that maternal sensitivity can reduce the negative effects of genes that predispose children to respond poorly to stress.
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 05:21
Increased levels of CRF lead to anxious and depressive behaviour
In an effort to better understand how chronic stress affects the human body, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, have created an animal model that shows how chronic stress affects behavior, physiology and reproduction.
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Sunday, 31 August 2008 15:59
Chewing Gum Reduces Stress Response
A new study, sponsored by the Wrigley Science Institute, has discovered that chewing gum during stressful situations can reduce levels of salivary cortisol, lead to a reduction in percieved levels of anxiety, improve alertness and dramatically improve performance on stressful tasks.The study, entitled, "An investigation into the effects of gum chewing on mood and cortisol
levels during psychological stress," was presented at the 2008 10th
International Congress of Behavioral Medicine on Saturday, August 30.
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