Cognitive Psychology
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How Colors Affect Emotional & Physical Health
Research shows that colors affect your emotional and physical health. A color intuitive shares how red, blue, and green affects your brain and body in different ways.
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How Playing & Watching Hockey Boosts Brain Power
Being an athlete or a sports fan changes the neural networks in the brain and improves language skills, according to new research from the University of Chicago.
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Sad People Are More Productive
Not only do sad children learn better, but unhappy employees are more productive. Here's the latest psychological research about mood and performance.
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The Best Way to Deal with Stress
Psychologist Katherine Muller of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine describes two of the best ways to deal with stress: exaggeration and radical acceptance.
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Thoughts of Death Cause Overeating
If you love watching the news or crime scene investigation shows on TV, you may be eating more & losing less weight. Here's the connection between death & overeating.
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Foods That Make You Smarter
These foods improve memory, boost cognitive ability and increase brain health. Plus, a healthy brain boosts your immune system, gives you more energy, and fights disease.
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How to Improve Your Brain Health
A healthy brain not only improves your memory and concentration, it reduces the risk of Alzheimers and other diseases. Here are 10 ways to increase your cognitive skills!
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The Subconscious Psychology of Color
Color psychology reveals how different hues, tones and shades subconsciously affect appetites and moods. The psychological effects of color can even include depression.
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Living Longer for Dummies
Dr Walter Bortz is a medical doctor & professor who has written several books about health, aging, & medicine. Here, he shares his expertise on healthy aging.
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How Stress Affects Your Memory
Scientists already knew that long-term stress impairs learning and memory. Now, research shows that even short-term stress affects cognitive skills.
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Anorexics’ Brains Are Different
New research shows anorexics' brain functioning is different than non-eating disordered brains. This research offers insights into the causes & treatment of anorexia.
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Good Decision Making Strategies
Good decision making strategies include trusting your gut and using your energy field. Here's two ways to make good decisions quickly.
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Overcoming Bulimia and Binge Eating
Overcoming bulimia goes beyond just stopping the binge and purge cycle, because it's a serious psychological condition. Here are treatment tips for this eating disorder.
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Explaining Negative Mystery Moods
The mystery solved! Those negative "mystery moods" happen because you failed at a goal you didn't know you had. Nonconscious goals cause bad moods & weaken performance.
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High or Low Self-Monitors
Maybe you care a little what people think; maybe you care alot. Are you a low or high self-monitor? This quiz reveals if you're dependent on the opinions of others.
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A New Way to Increase Motivation
Research shows changing your perspective from first to third person is an effective strategy for increasing motivation. Try it; maybe you'll achieve your life goals!
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Looking Fabulous, Feeling Inferior
Even when you look thin & beautiful, you can feel inferior because healthy self-esteem isn't about your appearance, achievements, or education.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Psychology
Psychological research shows that group expectations are the strongest predictor of the future. A self-fulfilling prophecy explains how negative thoughts create reality.
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Increasing Self-Confidence For Women
Increasing self-confidence helps women achieve professional and personal success. To maximize your potential, try these 3 ways to build confidence & boost self-esteem.
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Increase Your Brain Power
Mental fitness is just as important as physical fitness. Here's how to increase your brain power, which will boost your self esteem and increase your confidence.
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Contributing Articles in Cognitive Psychology
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Multiple Senses - Neurological Synesthesia
If dancing elicits streams of visions of intense images, or if perceiving the letter "J" as red or the number 4 as brown is part of life, then you may be a synesthete.
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What are Healthy and Unhealthy Beliefs?
What are healthy and unhealthy beliefs, how can you recognise and challenge unhealthy beliefs?
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What is Low Frustration Tolerance?
What is low frustration tolerance and what skills can help you to fight frustration?
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How Can I Reduce Anxiety?
What is anxiety, what anxiety disorders exist and what skills can be used to manage anxiety more effectively?
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What are Safety Behaviours?
What are safety behaviours, how do they hinder change and which key skills can be used to challenge these behaviours and improve your life?
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What Is A Case Formulation?
What is a Case Formulation, how does it work and how can this CBT skill improve your life?
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What Is The Downward Arrow Technique?
What is the Downward Arrow Technique, how does it work and how can it improve your life?
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How Do You Challenge Core Beliefs?
What are Core Beliefs, how can you use CBT Skills to challenge them and how can this improve your life?
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What is The Theory A versus Theory B Technique?
What is the Theory A versus Theory B Technique, how does it work and how can it help you improve your life?
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What is SMART Goal Setting?
What is SMART goal setting, how does it work and how can this CBT skill be used to improve yout life?
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What is a Positive Data Log?
What is a Positive Data Log, how does it work and how can this CBT skill improve your life?
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What are Behavioural Experiments?
What are Behavioural Experiments, how do they work and how can they improve your life?
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What Are Distraction Techniques?
What are Distraction Techniques, how do they work and how can this basic CBT skill help improve your life?
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What Are Thought Records?
What are Thought Records, how do they work and how can this basic CBT skill help improve your life?
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What is Graded Exposure?
What is Graded Exposure, how does it work and how can this CBT skill improve your life.
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What is Socratic Questioning?
What is Socratic Qestioning, how does it work and how can this CBT skill improve your life.
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Addiction's Cognitive Distortions
If you care about a person struggling with chemical or process addiction, chances are you have been confused or even outraged by some of their opinions or points of view.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
This article highlights the negative or distorted perceptions of situations that anxious or depressed people may have and how CBT can help.
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Think Better, Live Better
The unpredictability of life can be stressful in today's fast paced society. Here are some ways to reduce stress and anxiety through correcting thinking errors.
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What Is The Illusion of Control
A psychological concept, illusion of control refers to an individual's belief that success is likely and may cause problems for gamblers.
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Extinction of Learning and Theories of Avoidance
The one factor and two factor theories of avoidance utilise psychological learning principles to explain slow rates of extinction.
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Discrete Trial and Free Operant Procedures
Discrete trial and free operant procedures are types of experiments used by psychologists to measure learning in animal subjects.
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Ebbinghaus' Experiment in Overlearning
Herman Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist, found that overlearning or the repeated practice of skills after mastery leads to improved performance.
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How Does EMDR Work?
Trauma negatively influences how a person sees the world, themselves, and other people. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming gives victims hope for recovery.
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Study – Positive Thinking Won't Help Self-Esteem
New information from the Association for Psychological Science suggests that positive thinking doesn't help build self-esteem, but can actually make you feel worse.
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