The "chameleon effect" is known as the tendency to unconsciously imitate the people with whom we are interacting. The best-known example is the contagion of yawning. A team of researchers from the University of Pisa has discovered that the "chameleon effect" applies to people who start using their smartphone. Researchers have thus discovered that when … Read more
Middle-aged people who regularly turn to television for entertainment appear to be at increased risk of impaired reasoning and memory as they age. These three new studies even suggest that a moderate amount of television was associated with poorer performance on cognitive tests as people aged. Regular viewers also experienced increased brain atrophy . The … Read more
According to a new Yale study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine , older people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods become disabled about two years earlier than their counterparts in wealthier neighborhoods. The data also points to a tangible effect of structural racism in the lives of older Americans . Tracking nearly 800 people For … Read more
This Friday is the World Day Against Suicide Prevention , a silent pandemic that barely has news coverage (especially if we compare it with homicides). In Spain 3,671 people took their own lives in 2019 , according to the latest definitive data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE). There are ten people a day. … Read more
People tend to have less trouble hearing details about the extreme wealth of a particular wealthy person, even if those people believe that it is unfair that billionaires in general control so much wealth in the world. That is, when we look at a person at the top, we tend to think that that person … Read more
According to a new study published in the journal PLoS Medicine , around one in twenty people in Scotland diagnosed with type 2 diabetes can achieve a remission of the disease if they undergo bariatric surgery and other treatments. Recognizing people in remission, tracking their progress, and better understanding the factors involved in remission could … Read more
According to a new study by Kaiser Permanente published in Preventive Medicine , people who exercised more during the initial lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic experienced less anxiety and depression than those who did not exercise . The study also suggests that people who spent more time outdoors generally experienced lower levels of anxiety … Read more
Internal images of ourselves can deviate from what others see and this can be affected by our beliefs about our personality and our self-esteem. Researchers at Bangor University’s School of Human and Behavioral Sciences have devised a way to access people’s mental image of themselves, and, for the first time, compare that image to reality … Read more
To successfully cooperate or compete with other people in everyday life, it is important to know what the other person thinks, feels, or wants. For a long time, it was assumed that people depended exclusively on a single strategy: mind reading . This means that people deduce the mental states of others solely on the … Read more