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Companies, organizations and even governments - including the United States following former President Barack Obama's 2015 executive order to incorporate behavioral insights to better serve the American people - are turning to behavioral economics.

The student-run  HAVEN Free Clinic is expanding its behavioral health program through a series of workshops that will promote integrated care and target underserved communities in New Haven.

A UCLA Nursing professor has found that culturally tailored multimedia content holds great promise for encouraging Latina woman seek help for, and address the symptoms of, anxiety and depression.

Kidney failure is associated with lower quality of life in young people and limited employment, independence, and relationships compared with healthy peers, according to an analysis led by the University of Bristol and published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN).

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We are often told that you only get one chance to make a first impression and for years people have questioned just how to go about it.

Forty world experts on child development and mental health have released a joint statement calling for caution when applying an influential classification for assessing infant mental health and potential cases of abuse.

Academics at the University of Nottingham are marking World Mental Health Day by appealing for participants to take part in a study investigating the impact of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) in the workplace.

In a study, people ate less meat and conserved more water when they thought those behaviors reflected how society is changing. The findings could point to new ways of encouraging other behavior changes. Whether it be for the environment, one's health or other important causes, convincing people to adopt new or uncommon behaviors can be difficult.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Self-improvement edicts to lose weight, quit smoking or eat more fruits and vegetables can fall on deaf ears if the intervention message is mixed, says new research co-written by a University of Illinois expert in social psychology. When recommending multiple behavior changes, it's more effective if the messages are framed along similar polarities, according to a new paper from Dolores Albarracin , a professor of psychology at Illinois.

Sitting in a stifling subway car or walking Boston's cold winter streets may soon become more bearable, thanks to a "personal thermostat" wristband being released by MIT spinout Embr Labs.

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Conversational software programs might provide patients a less risky environment for discussing mental health, but they come with some risks to privacy or accuracy.

As many as 3000 youth suicide attempts could be averted each year with a 'YES' vote for marriage equality, the nation's leading youth mental health organisations have revealed today.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its boots on," Winston Churchill once famously said.

Friday, September 15, 2017 What if with the click of a button, a clinician could improve and personalize a patient's treatment for a mental illness like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or panic disorder?

Funding cuts and austerity measures are damaging young people's access to mental health services, with potentially long-term consequences for their mental wellbeing, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. We need to acknowledge the mental health suffering in our young people that has only been increasingly apparent in recent years, and resolve to improve young people's access to effective mental health services.

This summer, a survey released by the American Automobile Association showed that 78 percent of Americans feared riding in a self-driving car, with just 19 percent trusting the technology.

Self-harm intervention is a vital part of suicide prevention for young people in care according to recent research from experts at the University of Nottingham.

New app could transform music teaching in schools A new app is being launched this week that could transform the way music is taught and played in schools.

ANN ARBOR-About 2 percent of kids 14 to 16 years old report high-intensity drinking-drinking 10 or more drinks in a row-in the last two weeks, according to a University of Michigan study. The study is the first to report the prevalence of this type of drinking among young adolescents. The study examined high-intensity drinking among 14- and 16-year-olds in the United States.

From postcode rivals to riot partners: the psychology of the 2011 rioters explained A new study on the psychology of rioting has explained for the first time how postcode rivalries dissipated and rioters formed new allegiances as a shared sense of community emerged during the 2011 riots that spread across England.

If the interest rate banks paid on customers' deposits were to soar from 0.3 percent to 5 percent, you would expect that most people would start saving more.

Children may have a greater understanding of how to innovate and problem solve than previously realised.

Researchers examine psychological reasons that consumers make financial blunders and give institutional solutions to help change those behaviors.

General practitioners (GPs) may not feel confident to detect domestic violence and sometimes feel challenged providing responses.

Distractions diminish people's ability to remember, but important facts still stick, UCLA psychologists report Stuart Wolpert "In a world of computers and iPhones, it's rare that we're fully focused," said Alan Castel, a UCLA professor of psychology. But how much do all of those distractions diminish our ability to remember? A new study led by Castel and Catherine Middlebrooks, a UCLA graduate student, found that while divided attention does impair memory, people can still selectively focus on what is most important — even while they're multitasking.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Taboo words provoke certain responses in readers' heart rates and brains, diminishing their attention and memory, research has shown. A new paper by scholars at the University of Illinois suggests that the physiological and psychological effects of profanity and other taboo words on people who read or hear them may be due largely - but not entirely - to the context and individual audience members' likelihood of being offended.

People and philosophers think that what makes you an object of moral concern is that you are conscious and you can feel things, especially if you can feel any pain or suffering.

ANN ARBOR-Live fast and die young-it's a popular saying that could ring a little truer than is comfortable, according to a recent University of Michigan Study. Jukka Savolainen of the U-M Institute for Social Research found that people who, as children, were aggressive, hyperactive and struggled in school, with what the researchers called "antisocial behavior," are more likely to end up in persistent poverty, require welfare assistance, experience chronic unemployment and suffer premature death.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — An analysis of nearly 200 independent studies involving more than 230,000 adult participants finds that having been sexually assaulted is associated with significantly increased risk of anxiety, depression, suicidality, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder.

Besides testing treatments, research studies help doctors understand conditions so they can help future patients There are hundreds of clinical trials available at Yale for all types of conditions and for people of all ages.

The smile may be the most common and flexible expression, used to reveal some emotions, cover others and manage social interactions that have kept communities secure and organized for millennia. But how do we tell one kind of smile from another? "When distinguishing among smiles, both scientists and laypeople have tended to focus on true and false smiles.

Mothers who had a difficult or traumatic upbringing are more likely to have children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

ANN ARBOR-In the 1960s, the Beatles sang about wondering whether their true love would still love them as they grew older-after they've lost their hair and are no more adventurous than wanting to knit a sweater. A group of four studies led by University of Michigan researchers has found that however the hero of the Beatles song turns out, his health-and his wife's health-may be dictated by their perceptions of their own aging.

With some exceptions, primary health care is failing to deliver adequate preventive health care to Indigenous Australians who experience higher levels of ill health than non-Indigenous people, new research reveals. The findings add to a catalogue of similar research findings and stand in the face of major health and Medicare programs that have sought to improve health outcomes in Indigenous Australians through better access to preventive health assessments and follow-up care by primary healthcare providers.

The University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre has launched a new online course focusing on boosting mental health in the community.

Young people who have experienced self-harm will join researchers from the University of Nottingham to share their experiences of being part of a unique research project at an event on the 23 rd July at The Contemporary.

Their findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour , could help us to better understand why some people are less motivated to help others - a trait characteristic of apathetic or psychopathic individuals. First author, Dr. Patricia Lockwood of Oxford University's Department of Experimental Psychology, explains: 'lots of our social interactions require us to put in effort.

ANN ARBOR'Would you prefer to be a star student in a Top 100 school or a mediocre student in a more prestigious Top 10 school?

British Science Festival programme announced Brighton Pier takeover a highlight of fascinating and unique events for 2017 Brighton Pier will be transformed into a spectacular science showcase during this year's British Science Festival, organisers have announced.

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International Public Conference from June 29 to July 1, 2017, at Freie Universität Berlin ' 170/2017 from Jun 26, 2017 A conference to be held at the Institute of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin from June 29 to July 1, 2017, will address visual reasoning and intuition.

For high school students suffering from academic anxiety, Taylor Swift or Kanye West might be just what they need to alleviate stress.