Gratitude is the New Black: Hacking into Positive Psychology to Live a Happy, Positive Life

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LifeStyle • Feb 10, 2016 • 0 comments • Health, LifeStyle by By: Sohana Farhin/SHEC An experiment conducted at the University of Pennsylvania concluded that the single biggest contribution to leading a happy life is showing gratitude to yourself and others in life. Being present in your experiences, taking in all the moments and pausing to show thanks is a significant factor in what makes life worth living. Keeping a gratitude journal to write down what you are thankful for each day is one of the ways in which you can show what you appreciate in life. This finding reflects >>>

Robert Morris University Illinois and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Sign Memorandum of …

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Robert Morris University Illinois and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology have created a new option for students looking to complete a doctoral program in business psychology. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 10, 2016 Robert Morris University Illinois (RMU) and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP) have created a partnership through the establishment of an advanced graduate level program for students pursuing a doctoral degree in business psychology. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is a nonprofit university, >>>

UVA Researchers Get Work Published About Psychology of Sports Rivalries

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (NEWSPLEX) -- All college teams have rivals. When it comes to UVA, many will say their biggest rival is Virginia Tech. "We play Virginia Tech at least twice a year in Basketball," said Eddie Dunoyer, a second-year UVA student, "and it's a big time rivalry game. We love beating them." Students lined up almost two hours ahead of tip-off for the Hoos and Hokies basketball game on Tuesday night. Fans waiting >>>

CSUF researchers study the use of makeup by women

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Does a face full of makeup suggest a woman will be perceived as beautiful? Does a woman perceived as beautiful have a higher probability of being offered a job or a promotion? Does makeup affect whether a woman is perceived as a better leader? Are women who do not wear makeup putting themselves at a disadvantage? Cal State Fullerton Associate Professor of Psychology Jessie Peissig is working to answer these questions and more. “Women spend a great deal of time and money on makeup,” she said. “If you pick up nearly any women’s magazine, there will be at least one article >>>

Why Fixing Racial Biases Starts With Babies

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What if instead of fighting racial bias as adults, we worked to prevent it from ever happening in the first place, with kids? "These programs that occur later in development are good at interventions, kind of helping something that already exists. If we did it earlier, it'd be more of a prevention effort, stopping it from developing in the first place."That's professor and researcher Eva Telzer. Her work on developmental psychology has been cited by media outlets all over the country. So we visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to speak with her about two of her studies. Telzer's >>>

Calgary experts look at why teens take risks

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As Calgarians struggle to comprehend the sledding accident that took the lives of two teenage boys at Canada Olympic Park last weekend, experts in psychology and child development are offering some explanation as to why adolescent males sometimes take the risks they do. Research shows the brain is still developing throughout puberty and into the late teens, even the early 20s, says Peter Choate, assistant professor in the department of child studies and social work at Mount Royal University.  But since boys usually start puberty later than girls, their brains also take that much longer to >>>

2016 Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology – Singapore – 14th-15th June 2016 – Research and Markets

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/934thn/2016_singapore) has announced the addition of the "2016 Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (Singapore - 14th-15th June 2016)" conference to their offering. 2016 Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP 2016) will be held in the cosmopolitan city of Singapore. We invite researchers practitioners from all fields of psychology research practice to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, >>>

Reforming the admissions system in Pakistan’s universities

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Every year, thousands of students across Pakistan enroll in medical schools and engineering universities. Many more thousands apply and aspire — only to be told that they are not good enough. The entire process is robotic and devoid of human experience, and therefore prone to accept people of a certain mould and reject those who may have a lot to offer in terms of personal stories, commitment and passion. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here; let us first look at how the admission system works in the professional higher education sector.At most universities, admissions are a combination >>>

This poker doctor should make house calls

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Over the years, I have been fortunate to get to know one of the most outstanding gentlemen in our poker world, Dr. Alan N. Schoonmaker. Alan is undoubtedly our leading poker psychologist – and more. His contributions to the world of poker are truly amazing – but rarely discussed! After earning his Ph.D. in industrial psychology at the University of California-Berkeley, he went on to teach at UCLA and Carnegie-Mellon University. Then, he served as a Research Fellow at The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and was a guest lecturer at Yale and the University of Chicago. At >>>

Brand Savvy : The psychology of colour in branding

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Follow I hosted some friends one evening not so long ago and listened to two in particular have a lengthy discussion on why the other should not use red lipstick because it was loud, bold and not appropriate for her complexion. This friend of ours is rather conservative with colours and obviously would give anything to impose this on the rest of his friends, but despite his innuendos, Miss Red Lips would not hear of it. Stha Magida The conversation was totally hilarious as Miss Red Lips gave various reasons why she would continue wearing red lipstick. She eventually “won” the discussion >>>