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Community Bonding Protects Your Happiness in Times of Stress

June 13th, 2013
Community Bonding Protects Your Happiness in Times of StressEmerging research suggests that social cohesion across communities can help others cope better with crises, ...

Treatment of Mental Illness Saves Your Taxpayer Dollars

June 11th, 2013
Treatment of Mental Illness Saves Your Taxpayer DollarsEmerging research suggests outpatient treatment of mental illness significantly reduces arrest rates for people with mental health problems -- and saves taxpayers money ...

Suppression of Incriminating Memories Can Beat Lie-Detector Tests

May 30th, 2013
Suppression of Incriminating Memories Can Beat Lie-Detector TestsAn international team of psychologists has shown that some people can suppress incriminating memories and avoid detection by brain activity measured by guilt detection tests. Law enforcement ...

Study Discourages Depression Screening In Absence of Symptoms

May 14th, 2013
Study Discourages Depression Screening In Absence of SymptomsHealth care reform involves critically looking at health care practices and deciding if the evidence supports a continuation of ...

Illusion of Understanding Can Lead to Extreme Political Attitudes

April 30th, 2013
Illusion of Understanding Can Lead to Extreme Political Attitudes It has often been said that teaching a concept is the best way to learn the concept. New research presents a corollary ...

Slow Insurance Approvals Strand Mental Health Patients in ER

April 25th, 2013
Slow Insurance Approvals Strand Mental Health Patients in ER A significant problem regarding health care access involves obtaining hospital admission for those experiencing a mental health crisis. The backlog in obtaining insurance ...

Why Do People Buy Things They Don’t Want Online?

April 12th, 2013
Why Do People Buy Things They Don't Want Online?Emerging research investigates how online technology can lead to negative group behavior. The ubiquity of media can influence wide-scale behavior based on false premises, according to researchers. “Group behavior ...

Media Coverage of Gun Violence May Further Stigmatize Mental Illness

March 22nd, 2013
Media Coverage of Gun Violence May Further Stigmatize Mental Illness A new report finds that news stories about mass shootings involving a shooter with mental illness heighten readers' negative attitudes toward all persons ...

Powerful People May Take Excessive Risks

February 20th, 2013
Powerful People May Take Excessive Risks Emerging research suggests people who feel powerful are more likely to dispel immediate rewards and wait for potential larger rewards on down the ...

Policy for Protection of Mental Health Records May Hinder Future Care

January 3rd, 2013
Policy for Protection of Mental Health Records May Hinder Future Care A new study discovers keeping an individual’s psychiatric files separate from the rest ...