Psychology

Why it is worth saying hello again

After a long silence, it is often difficult to contact old acquaintances. But it doesn't have to: Usually the joy of the surprising news is greater than expected.

Walking to find Inner Clarity

Hundreds of thousands make a pilgrimage every year on routes such as the Jakobsweg through Europe. This often has little to do with religion: this serves as a temporary ritual in life crises.

Thinking has its price

Mental exertion alters brain metabolism, a new study shows. In the nerve tissue, a messenger substance accumulates, which is potentially toxic.

It depends on the type of reward

Japanese children resist sweets in the marshmallow test longer than American offspring. But wait a different temptation for you, your patience disappears faster.

Coffee stimulates the appetite for shopping

If you want to save money, you should do without coffee before shopping: the caffeinated drink increases the lust. But not everyone is equally affected.

Overcoming shame

Whether it's anxiety, depression or obsessive–compulsive disorder: many people are ashamed of their mental illness - and suffer doubly as a result. This can be counteracted.

Miscalculated

Many people false pictures of Mr. Monopoly or Pikachu. The phenomenon has now been scientifically examined for the first time. How it comes about remains unclear.

Quiet sounds relieve pain from mice

Mice feel less pain if they get noise - but only if they are not too loud. The loud inhibit special nerve pathways in the brain.

Compulsively good mood

"Think positively!" Advice like this can also backfire: not every experience can be turned into something good. Why negative thoughts are sometimes completely okay.

The enigmatic female homunkulus

The brain maps sensory stimuli such as touch on a kind of map of the body. However, science has so far mainly known the male version, the homunculus.

Signs of hidden awareness in the EEG

If a patient with a brain injury no longer reacts to speech, the forecast is bad. But some of those affected still show a reaction in the EEG: a good sign.

Birth as a farewell

When a baby dies before birth, his parents often suffer in silence. This increases your risk of developing a mental illness. But there are ways to process the loss.

What happens when teenagers smoke pot

Smoking joints regularly in adolescence can have bad consequences. Because not only how much cannabis you consume, but also from what age, is important for brain development.

To contradict yourself, makes wiser

If you want to benefit from the wisdom of many, you don't have to ask anyone for advice. It is enough to imagine what other thinkers would say.

Placebo effect stronger when the doctor is white and male

Even if patients have no explicit prejudices against black or female doctors - their physical response to treatments reveals unconscious reservations.

In the brain it can get more than 40 degrees hot

The temperature in the brain fluctuates strongly during a day. If this daily rhythm is missing after a traumatic brain trauma, this is a bad sign.

"The roles are fixed"

People with a personality disorder often get into conflicts in relationships. A healthy partnership is nevertheless possible, says the doctor and psychotherapist Eckhard Roediger in an interview: "You have to build an internal therapist."

Yes No Maybe

Sex should always be consensual. But how to communicate this consent in everyday life? Psychologists get to the bottom of this - and encounter old stereotypes and contradictions in the process.

The language of chimpanzees is more complex than thought

Because of individual, non -related sounds: chimpanzees structure their calls based on simple, grammar -like rules. This means that their language is more similar than believed.

The Forgotten History of the world's First Trans Clinic

More than 100 years ago, a Jewish doctor founded an Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin. He created a safe place for people who did not fit in heterosexual or binary categories. But as early as 1933 the clinic fell into the hands of the Nazis.

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