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- How elderly go from being perceived as capable consumer to 'old person'
- Smoking parents often expose children to tobacco smoke in their cars
- Snap judgments during speed dating
- Dance intervention improves self-rated health of girls with internalizing problems
- Meditation appears to produce enduring changes in emotional processing in the brain
- Infants mimic unusual behavior when accompanied by language
- Patients shy away from asking healthcare workers to wash hands
| How elderly go from being perceived as capable consumer to 'old person' Posted: 12 Nov 2012 02:14 PM PST Many baby boomers want to improve the way people view aging, but a researcher has found they often reinforce negative stereotypes of old age when interacting with their own parents, coloring the way those seniors experience their twilight years.  |
| Smoking parents often expose children to tobacco smoke in their cars Posted: 12 Nov 2012 02:14 PM PST A new study suggests that parents may not recognize the dangers of smoking in their cars with a child present.  |
| Snap judgments during speed dating Posted: 12 Nov 2012 02:13 PM PST For speed daters, first impressions are everything. But it's more than just whether someone is hot or not. Researchershave found that people make such speed-dating decisions based on a combination of two different factors that are related to activity in two distinct parts of the brain.  |
| Dance intervention improves self-rated health of girls with internalizing problems Posted: 12 Nov 2012 02:13 PM PST A dance intervention program improved the self-rated health of Swedish girls with internalizing problems, such as stress and psychosomatic symptoms.  |
| Meditation appears to produce enduring changes in emotional processing in the brain Posted: 12 Nov 2012 12:03 PM PST A new study has found that participating in an eight-week meditation training program can have measurable effects on how the brain functions even when someone is not actively meditating. The researchers also found differences in those effects based on the specific type of meditation practiced.  |
| Infants mimic unusual behavior when accompanied by language Posted: 12 Nov 2012 10:56 AM PST A new study shows the power of language in infants' ability to understand the intentions of others. The results, based on two experiments, show that introducing a novel word for the impending novel event had a powerful effect on the infants' tendency to imitate the behavior. Infants were more likely to imitate behavior, however unconventional, if it had been named, than if it remained unnamed, the study shows.  |
| Patients shy away from asking healthcare workers to wash hands Posted: 12 Nov 2012 08:31 AM PST According to a new study, most patients at risk for healthcare-associated infections agree that healthcare workers should be reminded to wash their hands, but little more than half would feel comfortable asking their physicians to wash. The study points to the need for patient empowerment to improve hand hygiene of healthcare workers.  |
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