Punjab News ExpressCHANDIGARH: International Society of Mental Training for Excellence (ISMTE) has decided to honour noted global experts in Mental Training Prof. Terry Orlick (Canada), Prof. Lars-Eric Unestahl (Sweden) and Prof. Emeritus Jitendra Mohan (India) with the life timeachievement award. The decision was taken at the Third World Congress on Excellence,which concluded at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh today. PU Dean University Instructions (DUI) Prof. A.K. Bhandari was the chief guest on the valedictory function. He congratulated the organizers for organizing World Congress on Excellence, >>>

Amal ClooneyIf asked, men will often say that they find high-achieving, intelligent women attractive. But when it comes to actually going on dates, the reverse is true. A study of 105 men published in the journal ‘Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin’ found that men are intimidated by the prospect of a romantic partner more intelligent than them.Psychologists from the University of Texas, Austin, found that men gave different answers depending on whether they were rating a woman as attractive, or actually considering a date with her. In the first part of the test, men were asked to rate >>>

Parenting is a hard enough task at the best of times, but few people have a more challenging time than the parents of children with mental disabilities. Their job is made all the more difficult by the fact that community resources for people with...

Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, currently Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin’s Veterans and Families Institute (VFI), has been made an Honorary Professor of Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University in acknowledgement of his contribution to the development of military psychology.Professor Hacker Hughes is the current President of the British Psychological Society, which recently entered into a collaboration with its Russian counterpart, and was in Moscow to speak at several conferences and events about the rehabilitation of veterans of local conflicts.In recent months Professor Hacker >>>

The Media and Migration lab is the first and only psychology lab at UCF, developed in 2011.(Photo: Courtesy UCF Marketing)Thousands of UCF students are plugged in to their music-streaming apps, listening to the lyrics of Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé or Nick Jonas almost every day. But this begs the question of what these lyrics are really leaking into their perceptions and subconsciouses.Enter the research of the Media and Migration lab.Located on the South Lake regional campus, the lab consists of research formed by questions like these.The MM lab is the first and only psychology lab at UCF and was developed >>>

Whether we're aware of it or not when we eat out, we are all drawn to well designed menus, but there's more to this than meets the eye. A good restaurant menu should have lovely pictures or descriptions of food that really whet the appetite. Yet a 'great' menu does more than that - sometimes, it actively encourages you to buy more food than you might want. Research has shown that a great menu will make you hungry, satisfying your psychological craving for food, and convincing you that you're in for a memorable dining experience. Think you're too savvy to fall for a really slick menu? >>>

Vibrant new body and bath brand Prismologie embrace an ethos drenched in colour. Their range is divided into collections where ingredients are chosen for their shade as well as their skincare properties. Floral rose is combined with rose quartz micro-crystals for the 'Pink O'Clock' range; while cedarwood and ruby make up the 'red' in 'The Red Hour'. Aromatics and gemstones, such as the diamond micro-crystals in 'White Beginning', are utilised as mood enhancers – fleshing out the notion of an active 'colour psychology'. Prismologie heralds the emotive power of colour, and the restorative effect >>>

Assistant Professor of Psychology Kyla Fletcher Kalamazoo College Assistant Professor of Psychology Kyla Fletcher has been awarded a grant by the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (part of the NIH) to study African-American partner relationships and share “what goes right” in terms of daily HIV risk reduction behavior. The three-year grant ($438,000, making it the largest single-investigator award ever received at Kalamazoo College) is titled “Substance Use and Partner Characteristics in Daily HIV Risk in African Americans.” Fletcher hopes to enroll 200 participants >>>

Elizabeth Karuru We bring you a very interesting story about someone who was connected to a three month internship through Duma Works and who then found herself in a management role just a few months later. This extraordinary person is Elizabeth Karuru and she is the Artist Relations and Communications Manager in charge of Uganda and South Africa for Mdundo.com Mdundo.com is an online music distribution platform aiming at making music distribution easy, transparent, and beneficial for both musicians and fans. They are one of the startups in Kenya funded and based out of the Startup >>>

A dead Austrian psychologist known for his study of the inferiority complex is the darling of local publishers today. A quick search for Alfred Adler (1870-1937) at Kyobo Bookstore, the country’s largest bookseller, returns a list of at least 40 titles containing his name. If books about his theories but with no direct mention of his name in the title are included, the list would well cross 100. Adler, although considered one of the greatest founding influences of modern psychology along with Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, was little known among the general public in Korea until late last >>>