Dishonest acts hurt one's ability to read others' emotions | Jill Young Miller

PinocchioJuly 25, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- A consultant inflates his hours so he'll be paid more. Will his dishonesty later affect whether he'll be able to tell when his client is pleased or upset? In ...

Yoga can improve the lives of prisoners | Anthony Hopkins, Lisa Oxman and Lorana Bartels

The participants in the eight-week yoga trial program in Canberra’s Alexander Maconochie Centre prison. Author provided July 18, (The Conversation) -- In 2017, a small group of male prisoners partici ...

How people engage with science can promote unbelief or beliefs about God | Arizona State University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 18, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- Most Americans believe science and religion are incompatible, but a recent study suggests that scientific engagement can actually promote be ...

Polling data suggest gender stereotypes have significantly changed since 1940s | American Psychological Association

July 18, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Women have come a long way in the United States over the last 70 years, to the point where they are now seen as being as competent as men, if not more so, according to res ...

Live Fruit Fly Brains Reveal Molecular Switch That Wakes Up Dormant Neural Stem Cells

Small (dormant) and enlarged (reactivated) neural stem cells expressing membrane-tagged GFP (green) and the cell cycle marker Cyclin B (red) in the young Drosophila fruit fly larval brain. Credit: Un ...

Study shows how the nervous system can transmit information across multiple generations | Tel Aviv University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain June 6, 2019 (Phys.org) -- A new Tel Aviv University study finds a mechanism exhibited in nematodes that allows the nervous system cells -- neurons -- to communicate with ge ...

What organizes the genome in the nucleus? | Ludwig Maximilian

Credit: CC0 Public Domain June 6, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Spatial separation of active from inactive fractions of the genome in the cell nucleus is crucial for gene expression control. A new study uncover ...

Danger avoidance can be genetically encoded for four generations, biologists say | Princeton University

Princeton University researchers Rebecca Moore, Rachel Kaletsky and Coleen Murphy have discovered that learned behaviors can be inherited for multiple generations in C. elegans, transmitted from pare ...

How to breathe for better health, studying and test taking | Ileana Varela

Dr. Nathaly Shoua-Desmarais practices diaphragmatic breathing using biofeedback. Credit: Florida International University March 11, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- If you're reading this you're obviously bre ...

Donald Trump's use of humiliation could have catastrophic consequences -- a psychologist explains why | Simon Mccarthy-Jones

Donald Trump. Credit: Gage Skidmore, Flicker (CC BY-SA 2.0)March 11, 2019 (Pbys.org) -- World War II opened the gates to hell. In 1948, the nations of the world tried to bolt them shut again. They di ...

Three ways studying organic chemistry changes the brain | Abby Simmons,

The region of left hippocampus in red shows decreased mean diffusivity (MD) after learning. The following hippocampal subregions are shown: Cornu Ammonis (CA) in blue; dentate gyrus in green, and sub ...