WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) — About 40 percent of young adults who’ve attempted suicide made their first attempt before high school, which suggests that suicidal thoughts and behavior may begin much younger than previously believed, according to a new study.
As part of an ongoing survey, University of Washington researchers asked almost 900 young adults, ages 18 or 19, about their history of suicide attempts.
TUESDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) — A new study is challenging the widely held notion that men’s minds are preoccupied with one topic: sex.
The research in college-age participants suggests that while men do think about sex more often than women, the subject crosses their mind an average of only about 19 times per day, compared to 10 times per day for women.
TUESDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) –
Creative thinkers are more likely to cheat than those who are less creative, perhaps because being an original thinker increases a person’s ability to rationalize their actions, according to a new study.
Harvard and Duke University researchers conducted five experiments to determine whether creative people would cheat in situations where they could justify their dishonesty. The findings appear online in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
MONDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) — Aggression in childhood is associated with poorer health in adulthood and should be recognized as a health risk, a new study says.
Researchers tracked more than 3,900 people in the Canadian province of Quebec who were in first, fourth and seventh grades in the years 1976 to 1978 and received health care between 1992 and 2006.
FRIDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) — Certain types of anti-smoking ads may not be effective for young adult smokers who are generally anxious, according to a new study.
University of Georgia researchers found that these smokers tend to tune out anti-smoking videos that warn how smoking can lead to disease and death and how secondhand smoke can harm others.
THURSDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) — Watching a scary movie can frighten you into selling your stocks too soon, a new study suggests.
The researchers explained that this is due to something called “social projection,” in which people’s own current feelings and inclinations heavily influence their assessment of others’ state of mind and preferences.
This means that an investor who is scared assumes that other investors are also scared and that their fears will drive stock prices lower, prompting the investor to sell early, said study co-author Eduardo Andrade, an associate professor in the business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
“If I’m scared, I tend to project that you are scared,” he said in a university news release. “If I feel like selling, I project that you are also going to sell, and that pushes me to sell earlier rather than later in anticipation of a drop in stock value.”
In this study, the researchers examined whether emotions completely unrelated to the stock market could influence investor behavior. They had one group of volunteers watch horror movies while another group watched documentaries about Benjamin Franklin and Vincent Van Gogh.
After watching the movies, the volunteers participated in a stock market simulation experiment. Those who watched the horror movies were more likely to sell early than those who watched the documentaries, the investigators found.
But fear triggered early selling only when participants were told that the value of the stock was affected by other people, not when they were told the stock value was randomly determined by a computer, where social projection was not a factor.
The findings suggest that being able to control fear is beneficial for investors.
“Generally speaking, those who made more money were those who decided to stay longer in the simulation game,” Andrade said.
The study is published in the November issue of the Journal of Marketing Research.
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) — An EEG, which measures brain activity, appears to be able to detect awareness in some patients thought to be in a permanent vegetative state, a new Canadian study finds.
Functional MRI (fMRI) is also able to show whether an unconscious patient has any awareness, but the high cost and limited availability of these devices make the test prohibitive for most patients, the researchers noted.
MONDAY, November 7, 2011 (Health.com) — Doctors and researchers have known for years that children are more likely to develop mental-health problems if their mother has struggled with depression. But what if it’s the father who’s depressed?
According to a new study—one of the first to examine mental-health patterns in a nationally representative sample of dads and kids—a child’s odds of developing emotional or behavioral problems increase by as much as 70% if the father shows signs of depression. That’s smaller than the increased risk associated with depressed moms, but it’s still cause for concern, researchers say. Read More
By Randy Dotinga
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) — Children of fathers who seem depressed are more likely to show signs of behavioral and emotional problems, although the nature of the link isn’t clear, researchers report.
The study also suggests that kids whose parents both seem depressed are at particularly high risk.
FRIDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) –
Although mentoring programs intended to help children socially, emotionally or academically do offer a number of benefits, these advantages are generally limited and may not be enough for kids facing serious problems, a new report says.
The authors of the report, published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest reviewed more than 70 existing evaluations of mentoring programs.
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