Response to Everyday Stress Predicts Health a Decade Later
Whether you dwell on relatively minor, everyday stressful situations could foreshadow what the future holds when it comes to your physical health. That’s the eye-catching, and possibly somewhat stressful,...
How Body Odor Can Predict Your Politics
A team of researchers from Sweden and Italy have taken a new angle on understanding the rise of Donald Trump: body odor. Wait, what? There’s a logic here, although...
How Heritable Is Mental Illness?
You’ve probably already heard that genes play a role in mental illness. If you have a particular psychiatric condition, your children are also more likely to have that condition....
Why Does a “Positive Orientation” Matter?
Have you noticed that some people seem to be unfailingly positive about everything that happens to them? If you’re like me, you can’t help but be a little jealous...
Seeking Happiness Can Mean Losing Time
If you set out to find happiness, you might just end up losing time. Don’t take my word for it – ask the researchers who this month published a...
The Brains of Chocolate Cravers
As you read this post, try not to think about how good a bar of milk chocolate would taste right now. Many people find that it’s quite easy to...
The Science of Helicopter Parenting
Hover mothers, helicopter parents. Call them whatever you want: we’ve all seen examples of parents who closely monitor their children’s lives – sometimes even as their children stop being...
How Much Does Having a Growth Mindset Matter?
Telling kids they’re smart could lead them to do worse in school. That’s the eye-catching finding from work done back in 1998 by a pair of psychology researchers from...
Does OCD Predict Other Disorders?
We often think of different mental health conditions as totally independent from each other. Depression is separate from anxiety is separate from bipolar disorder, and so on: they have...
People Who Read Left to Right Remember Left to Right Too
How we remember things is partly down to the culture we’re from and the language we speak. Some new evidence for that comes from a recent study published in...
