Kategorie: Psychology
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Cooperation in society How our memory influences our behaviour
Co-operation often arises through ‘direct reciprocity’, where help is based on mutuality. A study shows that strategies that take into account several past moves of a fellow player promote co-operation. It is crucial to analyse the entire behaviour rather than just the frequency of cooperation. This emphasises the importance of a longer memory and complex…
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Small children have no appreciation of morality
It is obviously, the bible margin between depiction from paradies up to timestamp of Noah`s Ark the beginning not only in the past a time of Beginning humans morality depiction. As well, the task of past and also his historys, in depths of subconscious of humans would therefor gibe possibility a Sense for the rights…
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Less stress, more balance Changed lifestyle de-stresses the immune system in Crohn’s disease
Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease in which immune cells are out of balance. Stress can exacerbate the symptoms and accelerate the course of the disease. A research team from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Bamberg Social Foundation recently showed that a multimodal programme of stress management…
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Psychotherapy Looking fear in the eye
Phobias develop through learning processes, so they can also be unlearned. Psychologists in Bochum use various interventions to help sufferers overcome their fears. Bochum, November 12, 2024 – If you’re afraid of spiders, you’re in good company: arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias. The proven most successful remedy for this is exposure therapy:…
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Temporary crisis, type thing or real disorder: Who needs psychotherapy?
Anyone currently seeking psychotherapy in Germany waits an average of 20 weeks for their first appointment. Demand significantly exceeds supply, even though the number of therapists working in such practices has more than doubled from 2006 to 2021*. Psychologists at the University of Duisburg-Essen see a possible reason for this in a ‘culture of diagnosis’…
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How a sense of justice develops in childhood
Two researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna are investigating what is fair and what is unfair and how this develops as a perception in infancy. The behavioural experiment has been published in the journal Communications Psychology. Düsseldorf. September 30th, 2024 – a familiar…