Social Psychology

Why people act out of line with their beliefs

Tom Stafford

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Ever been forced to defend a particular position and ended up believing it? You’ve succumbed to one of the most famous theories in social psychology.

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If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards. And if you find yourself acting out of line with your beliefs, change them. This sounds like motivational advice from one of the more cynical self-help books, or perhaps a Groucho Marx line (“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others…”), but in fact it is a caricature of one of the most famous theories in social psychology./.../

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Doc Tweets

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Getting a 'Handle' on Doc Tweets By Kristina Fiore, Published: October 19, 2012 More doctors are using Twitter now than ever before, and a new database puts 1,400 of them -- along with 400,000 of their tweets -- at your fingertips. It’s an unprecedented data set – the literature on clinician Twitter use thus far has relied on small surveys and anecdotes -- developed by Greg Matthews (@chimoose) and colleagues at the communications consulting firm WCG./.../

Health Disparities

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Pediatric Meeting Opens with Focus on Health Disparities By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: October 19, 2012 NEW ORLEANS -- The American Academy of Pediatrics is kicking off its annual meeting with a half day devoted to health disparities in the nation's youngest patients. Those who attend the session will hear about ways to improve cultural sensitivity, how to better work with community agencies to meet the various needs of children, and how to face some of the social problems affecting children, including hunger, homelessness, and poverty, according to Robe... mais »

Google DC

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Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center - BY STEVEN LEVYEMAIL AUTHOR - 10.17.12 - 7:30 AM A central cooling plant in Google’s Douglas County, Georgia, data center. *Photo: Google/Connie Zhou**If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age —* a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture factories. Now it’s the home of a Google data center./.../

Creativity and Mental Illness

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More Evidence Linking Creativity, Mental Illness Are new approaches needed to safeguard benefits of psychiatric disorders? By Robert Preidt Wednesday, October 17, 2012 [image: HealthDay news image] The findings also suggest that to safeguard the positive traits associated with mental illness, new approaches to treatment might be considered, the researchers said.WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A large new study adds to evidence linking creativity and mental illness. The investigators looked at long-term data from nearly 1.2 million Swedish psychiatric patients and their relative... mais »

Baby's formula and Leukeimia Risk

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Longer Baby's on Formula, Higher the Leukemia Risk By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: October 17, 2012 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Prolonged formula feeding may increase the odds for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), investigators in a case-control study concluded. Each additional month of formula feeding was associated with a 16% increase in the relative risk of ALL compared with a control group. Every additional month of delay in the start of solid foods increas... mais »

Education

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Reinventing College[image: Photograph by Ilona Szwarc for TIME] The TIME Summit on Higher Education, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is gathering experts today to discuss solutions to the critical problems of cost, access and quality in higher education. Join us on Twitter at #RethinkCollege. By Rick StengelRead more: http://nation.time.com/reinventing-college/#ixzz29eogQ8Y4

Dia do Médico

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18 de outubro de 2012 | N° 17226 ARTIGOSPensando Medicina, por Aloyzio Achutti * Cada vez mais se fala em saúde, longevidade, remédios, prevenção de doenças, diagnósticos, curas, aparelhos, custo-benefício, acesso a serviços e planos de saúde e hospitais. Fala-se pouco do operador de tudo isso. Só é percebido quando falha, ou não atende às fantasias da clientela. Muito do milagre, e pouco do santo... De fato, por iniciativa dos próprios médicos, descobriram-se muitos meios, ciência, técnicas, instrumentos, profissões auxiliares, com os quais se impõe compartilhar os resultados. Tud... mais »

Check-up?

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Routine Physicals Don't Save Lives By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: October 16, 2012 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston Click the bottom right corner of the video player for full screen. Action Points - A Cochrane systematic review identified no benefit for general health checkups for adults in terms of decreasing overall morbidity and mortality. - Note that there was also no demonstrated benefit to checkups for reducing cardiovascular- or cancer-related mortality. Patients w... mais »

APOE genotyping x Amyloid Load

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Amyloid Load Predicts Cognitive Decline Better Than APOE Genotype Megan Brooks October 16, 2012 — In older cognitively healthy adults, the amount of β-amyloid (Aβ) in the brain is a more important factor in determining risk for future memory decline than is the APOE ε4 allele, a study from Australia shows. "Amyloid-related deterioration in memory occurs in cognitively normal healthy older adults with high Aβ and who carry the APOE ε4 allele," lead author Yen Ying Lim, MPsych, and PhD candidate, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, tol... mais »

Human Lifespan

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Big, Rapid Gains Made in Human Lifespan: Study Researchers say 72 is the new 30 Monday, October 15, 2012 [image: HealthDay news image] Most of the decline in early mortality has occurred in the past century, or four generations, a finding that calls into question traditional theories about aging, the study authors noted.MONDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- It's said that life is short. But people living in developed countries typically survive more than twice as long as their hunter-gatherer ancestors did, making 72 the new 30, according to new research. "I still can't believe how rec...mais »

LYL Cancer

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Life-Years Lost to Cancer More than 150 Million By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Published: October 15, 2012 Worldwide, nearly 170 million years of healthy life were lost in 2008 because of cancer, researchers reported. In the developing world, early death was the main impact of cancer, according to Isabelle Soerjomataram, MD, of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, and colleagues. But in the developed world, better prognosis and treatment led to a higher rate of years living with the after-effects of cancer, Soerjomataram and c... mais »

obesity

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Anticonvulsant Aids Weight Loss By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Published: October 15, 2012 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston The anticonvulsant drug zonisamide (Zonegran), in combination with dietary and lifestyle changes, can help obese people lose weight, researchers reported. In a 1-year controlled trial, patients taking 400 mg daily of the drug lost significantly more weight than those on placebo, according to Kishore Gadde, MD, of Duke University Medical Center, and colleagues.... mais »

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World Heart Day 2012

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World Heart Day 2012 TAKE ACTION TO SAVE THE LIVES OF THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN YOU LOVE

Sulzberger, a Times Publisher, Dies

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*Sulsberger Dies* Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, a Times Publisher, Dies « Previous 1 of 16 Next » - FACEBOOK - TWITTER - GOOGLE+ - E-MAIL - SHARE Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in 1992. For 34 years, Mr. Sulzberger shaped the destiny of The New York Times as its publisher and as chairman and chief executive of the parent company. The portrait on the wall behind him depicts his grandfather, Adolph S. Ochs, who bought The New York Times in 1896. Credit: Burk Uzzle for The New York Times RELATED - Article: Publisher Who Transformed The Times for New Era - Video: Remembering A... mais »

FLU

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Indicado por Dr, Luiz Gustavo Guilhermano *Comparison between influenza pandemics of 1918 and 2009 from the perspective of **Hospital São Vicente de Paulo in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil* Paula da Rocha Jaskulski1, Mariluce da Rocha Jaskulski2, Luiz Gustavo Guilhermano3 1 Acadêmica de Medicina da Universidade de Passo Fundo. 2 Professora Titular do Departamento de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões, Campus de Erechim. 3 Professor Assistente do Departamento de Psiquiatria da Faculdade de Medicina da Pontifícia Universidade Catól... mais »

Are We Getting Smarter?

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How We Know That Humans Are Getting Smarter [Excerpt] In this excerpt from his new book, James R. Flynn explains how he came to understand how our minds have gained in cognitive skills over the 20th century By James R. Flynn 2 inShare [image: Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century, James R. Flynn]**Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century*, by James R. Flynn. Copyright © 2012 James R. Flynn. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.*Image: Cambridge University Press *Reprinted from* Are We Getting Smarter? R... mais »

Vitamin D : Alzheimer

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Low Vitamin D Linked to Alzheimer's Disease Pauline Anderson Authors and Disclosures - Information from Industry Dose reduction is not always an option when trying to meet individual patient needs in relapsing MS Read about dosing flexibility September 28, 2012 — Yet another study has linked low vitamin D levels with significant health issues — in this case, poor cognition. In this latest systematic review of the literature, people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) had lower concentrations of vitamin D than those without AD, and better cognitive test results were linked to high... mais »

neighborhood and health

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Where You Live May Boost Your Sense of Well-Being Mental health improved when families moved from very poor neighborhoods, study found Thursday, September 20, 2012 Related MedlinePlus Pages - Health Disparities - Mental Health THURSDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- When families were given vouchers to move from impoverished neighborhoods to ones that were less poor, the adults in those families experienced lasting improvements in mental health and well-being, new research says. And, these improvements occurred even though the adults weren't making significantly more money afte... mais »

WHF: News Brief

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Introduction from the EditorIssue number: 12 Professor Kathryn A. Taubert Chief Science Officer World Heart Federation *Welcome to issue 12 of the CVD News Brief!* In this News Brief, you can read about data from the Whitehall II study which has demonstrated for the first time that regular physical activity reduces inflammatory markers thereby helping to prevent loss of muscle mass, decline in physical function, and the development of cardiovascular disease in later life.You will also be interested to read that a study recently published in the Lancet shows the impact of a sedentary l... mais »

13.2 billion years

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Hubble Telescope Reveals Farthermost View into the Universe The "time tunnel into the distant past" gives us a glimpse of galaxies as they looked up to 13.2 billion years ago By Clara Moskowitz and SPACE.com [image: TechMediaNetwork] *LOOKING BACK:* Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of sky area, but provides a "core sample" of the heavens over 13 billion light-years.Image: NASA, ESA, G.... mais »

L. E Robinson Achutti: co-autor

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[image: Diálogo / Fotografia] Diálogo / Fotografia Autor: Tiburi, Marcia Editora: Senac São Paulo Categoria: Artes / Fotografia Em um mundo cada vez mais marcado pela pre¬sença de câmeras digitais, muitas vezes acopladas a celulares e tablets, discutir a fotografia como uma atividade especializada, pertencente ao mundo das artes, pode parecer, para muitos, fora de contexto... [LEIA+] Atualmente, todos nós podemos tirar uma fotogra¬fia, editá-la e, depois, compartilhá-la e exibi-la em álbuns, porta-retratos e redes sociais, como uma forma de tomar nota da vida cotidiana ou de guardar l... mais »

Neighborhoods...

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Physical And Mental Health Boosted By Move To Less Impoverished Neighborhoods Main Category: Psychology / Psychiatry Also Included In: Mental Health; Public Health Article Date: 24 Sep 2012 - 1:00 PDT Moving from a high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood spurs long-term gains in the physical and mental health of low-income adults, as well as a substantial increase in their happiness, despite not improving economic self-sufficiency, according to a new study published in *Science* by researchers at the University of Chicago and partners at other institutions. Although moving into... mais »

medical 'code of silence'

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Exposing the medical 'code of silence' By *Libby Lewis*, CNN September 21, 2012 -- Updated 1924 GMT (0324 HKT) [image: Surgeon and author Marty Makary (second from right) with colleagues at Johns Hopkins Hospital.] Surgeon and author Marty Makary (second from right) with colleagues at Johns Hopkins Hospital. *STORY HIGHLIGHTS* - A surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital has some ideas about what is wrong with medicine - Marty Makary says doctors and hospitals should talk more openly about medical mistakes - Patients should push doctors and hospitals for information to make ... mais »

The Clinton Global Initiative

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CGI: Designing—and Powering—a Better World The Clinton Global Initiative kicks off with a paean to the importance of designing solutions that can scale up. By BRYAN WALSH | @bryanrwalsh | September 24, 2012 | 1 [image: Getty Images] GETTY IMAGES Global problems—in health, in the economy, in the environment—begin and end with design. An intelligently designed system can make success inevitable, and a poorly designed one can make it impossible. Too often we react to global threats after the fact, our responses hamstrung by underperforming and outmoded systems. If we’re going to fix the... mais »

Exercício é Remédio

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