Paracademia
Blog URL http://paracademia.blogspot.com
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags academic, academia, study, philosophy, psychology, physics, science, neurology, sociology
Thoughts of an academic on all subjects from Psychology to Physics and everywhere in between.
Latest Blog Posts
- Is the way we hold democratic student-teacher meetings in schools making young people cynical about democracy? on Nov 21, 2009 in education Children young people schools government democracy
Robert Thornberg of the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linkoeping University in Sweden has recently published a fascinating study about the way young people view democracy.He attended school democratic meetings between teachers an...
- Swearing increases pain tolerance on Nov 9, 2009 in psychology language
Dr. Richard Stevens of Keele University has recently completed a fascinating study into the use of swear words when feeling pain - and has discovered as a result that swear words actually increase people's tolerance of pain. Along with his colleagues...
- Fascinating study: How to increase altruism in toddlers on Nov 5, 2009 in psychology development Children evolution altruism
Over & Carpenter, two researchers at Cardiff University, have recently published a study on how to increase altruism in toddlers. The results are surprising in their simplicity. No long, drawn-out system of teaching; no specific cues; no particul...
- Always remember to breathe on Nov 4, 2009 in Videos religion
In March this year, a Chinese builder hit the headlines when he used Buddhist breathing techniques to keep himself alive when he otherwise would undoubtedly have died. By slowing his breathing and being aware of how to breathe correctly, he managed t...
- How self-esteem moderates the relationship between gender and weight preoccupation in undergraduates on Nov 2, 2009 in bulimia psychology eating disorders anorexia
Mary Pritchard of Boise State University noticed that research has been conducted into the relationship between gender and self-esteem, gender and weight preoccupation, and self-esteem and weight preoccupation. No studies have yet focused, however, o...
- Basic personality disorders in relation to alcohol consumption on Nov 2, 2009 in psychology personality
A group of researchers from the Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology have recently been studying the type of personality that correlates with high alcohol consumption. The personalities of 539 college students - 283 women, 25...
- Eating disorder patients who binge display a lower level of cognitive control than those who restrict on Oct 26, 2009 in bulimia psychology personality cognition eating disorders anorexia
Researchers from Belgium and the USA have teamed up to study how personality traits correlate with different types of eating disorder. Working with forty eating disordered participants, they discovered that for patients whose disorder manifested itse...
