Research results published in the Journal of Family Psychology revealed that doing housework when you get home from work prevents levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) from lowering and reduces recovery from stress.
How Psychology Can Help If you want to be successful in changing your habits, you should think about changing your inner beliefs about your habits.
(19)The emerging beauty industry played on the fear of looking ugly as much as on the pleasure of looking beautiful, drawing on the new science of psychology to convince women that an inferiority complex could be cured by a dab of lipstick.
A few years ago, just a few blocks from my home, a pair of researchers in the Cal psychology department staged an experiment.
"We are materially so much better off than we were 50 years ago, but we're not one iota happier," says Chris Peterson, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan.
And researchers found that having a sister or a brother was linked with more inclination to do good deeds, according to the Journal of Family Psychology study.
There is no bigger cliche in business psychology than the idea that high self-confidence is key to career success.
" Vikki Stark advises in Psychology Today how to effectively breathe deeply: "On the inhale, visualize the clean, fresh air coming into your lungs, traveling around your body and cleansing all your cells.
"Our research demonstrates that indeed people do look like their name," said Dr Ruth Mayo, senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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The lad smiled and said,"Applied psychology.
" Stephen Lea, a retired professor of psychology from the University of Exeter in the U.
This unexpected conclusion is the result of a study conducted by two psychologists from the University of Würzburg: Kristina Suchotzki, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychology I, and Matthias Gamer, Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology.
Number 4) They have no use for psychology.
" Doug Gardner, a sports psychology consultant, recalled seeing "emaciated" players exhausted after relentless gameplay.
Celeste Walley-Jean, dean of the School of Graduate Studies and associate professor of psychology at Clayton State University, told INSIDER.
"Our research reveals [that]…repeated giving, even in identical ways to identical others, may continue to feel relatively fresh and relatively pleasurable the more that we do it," says University of Chicago Booth School of Business psychology researcher Ed O'Brien in a statement.
Researchers from the University of Arizona's psychology department say that, when couples react differently during arguments, it creates stress.
In the first chapter, author Oliver Burkeman explains that after years of reporting on the field of psychology, he has concluded that "the effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
Originally an engineer who worked for NCR and subsequent spin-offs when they were bought by AT&T, Mr Weerasekera, who has six sisters and parents who came from Sri Lanka, had a "healthy interest in amateur psychology" and trained as a coach.
