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New research distinguishes roles of conscious and subconscious awareness

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (Medical Xpress) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(Medical Xpress) -- What distinguishes information processing with conscious awareness from processing occurring without awareness? And, is there any role for conscious awareness in information processing, or is it just a byproduct, like the steam from the chimney of a train engine, which is significant, but has no functional role?

Happiness linked to longer life

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (CNN) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(CNN) -- Being happy doesn't just improve the quality of your life. According to a new study, it may increase the quantity of your life as well.

Why Some People Say 'Sorry' Before Others

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (Scientific American) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(Scientific American) -- Certain character traits influence people's willingness to apologize

Awareness biases information processing

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (Scientific American) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(Medical Xpress) -- How does awareness influence information processing during decision making in the human brain? A new study led by Floris de Lange of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen, offers new insight into this question, and is published November 22 in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology.

Is empathy in our genes?

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (CNN) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(CNN) -- A large part of how we relate to people emotionally may be hardwired into our DNA. A new study suggests that character traits such as being open, caring, and trusting are so strongly linked to a certain gene variation that a total stranger, simply by watching us listen to another person, may be able to guess whether we have the variation with a high degree of accuracy.

Nonverbal power cues: Higher rankings lead to less cooperative facial expressions

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (Medical Xpress) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(Medical Xpress) -- New University of Michigan research indicates that people in higher-ranked positions tend to exhibit facial expressions that are perceived by others as less cooperative, influencing how others react to them.

Man with schizophrenia has out-of-body experience in lab, gains knowledge, controls his psychosis

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (Discover) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(Discover) -- RM had his first out-of-body experience at the age of 16. Now, at the age of 55, he has had more than he can count. They usually happen just before he falls asleep; for ten minutes, he feels like he is floating above his body, looking down on himself.

Ads Convince Consumers Of Nonexistent Experiences

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (Scientific American) — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(Scientific American) -- Ads can make consumers believe they've tried products that they haven't or that don't even exist. Christopher Intagliata reports

How physical pain helps ease a guilty conscience

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (Science News) — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(Science News) -- A sense of personal well-being, typically assumed to depend on factors such as job status, income and close relationships, instead hinges on satisfaction with one’s country for the world’s most impoverished people living mainly in non-Western countries, says a team of University of Illinois psychologists and Gallup pollsters.

Why diversity rules

admin@meaningfulrelations.com (Science News) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

(Science News) -- Experiment shows how a multitude of species gets the job done