Tag: Psychology

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Utkal varsity Asst Prof in soup for FB posts

Bhubaneswar: A show cause notice has been issued to an Asst Prof of the Utkal University for posting results of students and objectionable remarks against the varsity authorities on various social media platforms. The Post-Graduate (PG) council chairman of the university has issued the show-cause notice to Maheswar Satpathy, on Friday. As per reports, Satpathy […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Researchers identify 27 states of emotion

San Francisco: A new study challenges a long-held assumption in psychology that most human emotions fall within the universal categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust. Using statistical models to analyse the responses of 853 men and women, who are demographically diverse, to 2,185 emotionally evocative video clips, University of California, Berkeley, researchers […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Does reading maps make you nervous? Blame your genes

London: If the very thought of spatial and mathematical tasks, such as reading a map or solving a geometry problem, makes you nervous, it could be partly due to your genes, suggests a new research. “Our results have important implications for finding specific genes which contribute to differences in anxiety between people,” said Margherita Malanchini […]

  • Saturday, 03 July 2021
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Frequent vacations good for your heart

New York: Take out time for travelling amid your busy schedule as frequent vacations not only help de-stress but also reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, reveals a new study. The study, published in Psychology and Health journal, found that a vacation can help people reduce their metabolic symptoms and therefore their risk of cardiovascular […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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