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IN THE NEWS
ADHD
- Hyperactivity help ADHD children to stay alert
Alzheimer’s disease
- A simple balance test may predict cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease
Autism spectrum disorders
- Fluoxetine not effective for reducing repetitive behaviour in autism
Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder risk raised in early-onset bipolar disorder
- Manic episodes linked to desire for fame
Child & adolescent psychology
- The strange iPod behaviour of teenagers
- Children’s early gestures have important link to school preparedness
- Body satisfaction in early adolescence
- Recent research on aggressive children: Influence of the perinatal environment
- Secure mother–child attachments predict good friendships
- Television watching in adolescence linked to depression in young adulthood
Consumer behaviour
- Colourful effects: Blue for creativity, red for attention to detail
- It’s about time: Mentioning the word “time” increases chances of a sale
Depression
- Anti-social behaviour in girls predicts later depression
Educational psychology
- Effect of technology on education
Language
- The brain’s “quick-and-dirty” tricks for understanding sentences
- How the brain processes negative statements
Memory
- Improving brain-processing speed enhances memory
- Having a parent with dementia increases risk of memory loss in middle age
- More evidence: An active mind guards against memory loss in later years
- “Reading” short-term memory with fMRI
- Eyewitness testimony may be even more unreliable than we think
- Guilty pleasure? Don’t rely on your memory
- How memories of sexual abuse are recovered can separate true from false memories
Neuroscience
- Proof that cognitive training can alter brain biochemistry in humans
- Loneliness affects how the brain operates
Organizational psychology
- Childhood temperament strongly associated with absenteeism in later life
Personality, emotions & behaviour
- The more difficult something is, the better in helping us achieve our goals?
- Procrastination—research suggests a way to stop delaying tasks
- Violent media numb viewers to the pain of others
- People need nature to stay healthy
- More evidence that optimists live longer
- When dreaming is believing …
- Gratitude—Men may lack the key to happiness
- Suppressing disgust may keep you feeling negative emotions
Psychotherapy
- Therapy effective for chronic pain in children and adolescents
Race & racism
- Xenophobia not an equal-opportunity emotion
- Losing control could be good for race relationships
Sex & gender
- “Corrective” rape in South Africa
- The neural correlates of sexual desire
Social psychology
- Teamwork enhanced by synchronous activities
Spirituality
- Support for suicide attacks linked to collective religious rituals, but not
- religious devotion
Substance abuse
- Zofran may aid withdrawal from opioids
- Motivational interviewing with feedback reduces binge drinking
PSYCHLITS: ON THE PSYCH RADAR
- Happily married women sleep better
- Schizophrenia linked to deficit in all components of empathy
- Children of bipolar parents have increased risk of psychiatric disorders
- Risk factors for suicide among adolescents with treatment-resistant depression
- Mental illness alone does not predict violence
- Violent episodes ‘not uncommon’ in stable schizophrenia outpatients
BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
- Special journal issues
- Journal's special edition focuses on young people and the media
- Intelligence and the brain
- Trauma, resilience and growth
- Charles Darwin and psychology at the bicentennial and sesquicentennial
- Individual and group counselling in the practice of school psychology
CONFERENCES & EVENTS
