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Seeing the big picture | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Are you a big-picture person, or do you tune into the detail? Surprisingly, the culture in which you were raised - including your religion (or lack of it) can shape this fundamental aspect of your personality....” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Gender, religion, and volunteering | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Here's a quick one on study of volunteering among older people. It's well known that religious people do more formal voluntary work, on average, than the non-religious. What's less well understood is why that should be.Well, one other thing that's notable about religion in the USA is that it's more popular with women. And women also tend to volunteer more (well, both those ...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Praying for abstinence | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Religious people are less likely to drink heavily. However, there's a chicken-and-egg problem here. Is it that turning to god help people stay off the demon drink, or is it that hard-core party animals are less likely to be religious?These questions crop up a lot in studies of religion, but there are a couple of ways round them. Basically, you can look at what happens over ...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Inherited Brain Activity Predicts Childhood Risk For Anxiety | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “A new study focused on anxiety and brain activity pinpoints the brain regions that are relevant to developing childhood anxiety. The findings, published in the Aug. 12 edition of the journal Nature, may lead to new strategies for early detection and treatment of at-risk children...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Inherited brain activity predicts childhood risk for anxiety, research finds | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “A new study focused on anxiety and brain activity pinpoints the brain regions that are relevant to developing childhood anxiety. The findings may lead to new strategies for early detection and treatment of at-risk children.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Attraction runs in the family | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “The 'incest taboo' is the aversion to being sexually attracted to our own family and evolutionary psychology has suggested it is an inherited adaptation to promote genetic diversity. A brilliant ...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Test your knowledge on religion and health | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Doctors these days are expected to keep up to date by taking regular courses. Read the materials, answer the questions, and viola! You get some credits towards your 'continuing medical education' (or CME). Just recently, one provider offered a bit-sized piece of CME asking Is Religiosity or Spirituality Protective For H...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Religion and the case of the disappearing right-brain | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Studies of brain damage give a unique insight into how the mind works. If your behaviour changes when a specific lump is taken out, then that's pretty good evidence for the function of that particular lump....” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Children can tell the difference between science and religion | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Paul Harris, a psychologist at Harvard University, is interested in how children learn to differentiate between different kinds of knowledge. In his latest study, he's teamed up with two Spanish psychologists to unpick the beliefs of young, Catholic children....” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Did fornicating Farm Girls boost the rise of atheism in Britain? | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “These days, Britain is one of the most atheistic countries around. It wasn't always like that, of course, but one of the problems with trying to work out how the present state of affairs came about is that there are very few statistics on religion the stretch back far enough....” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Science can't prove that! How rejecting evolution leads to rejecting science | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Recent studies have shown that, at least in the USA, science and religion don't really mix. Religious people tend to have worse understanding of science, and scientists are, of course, far less religious that the general population (probably because ...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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What's the evidence that anxiety and insecurity turns people to religion? | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “That's a question that cropped up recently on the Non-religious and Secular Research Network discussion forum. After I finished composing my response, I thought to myself” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Sickle cell disease may affect brain function in adults, study suggests | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Sickle cell disease may affect brain function in adults who have few or mild complications of the inherited blood disease, according to results of the first study to examine cognitive functioning in adults with sickle cell disease.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Fragile X syndrome gene's role in shaping brain uncovered | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Researchers have discovered how the genetic mutation that causes Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental retardation, interferes with the” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Fragile X syndrome gene's role in shaping brain uncovered http://goo.gl/fb/s1djH #psychologynews
Imaging study discovers brain development differences in kids with fragile X syndrome | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Fragile X syndrome is the most common known cause of inherited intellectual disability and autism. Now, researchers using advanced, noninvasive imaging techniques have shown how the brains of very young boys with fragile X syndrome differ from those of young boys without it, providing critical information for the development of treatments for the condition.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Imaging study discovers brain development differences in kids with fragile X syndrome http://goo.gl/fb/a83kA
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