After a new study examining the link between heart disease, death, and optimism found that more optimistic people were less likely suffer both heart disease and death as a result of heart disease, the American Heart Association has put out a release highlighting the results.
The study was on women, sorry men, and found that:
Optimistic women [...]
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12May09Laugh Your Problems Away
12Nov08Laughter can be great medicine. If I had to guess, I would say that the relationship between the body, the brain, and laughter is a lot like the relationship between the body, the brain, and the smile.
There was a study done on smiling which showed that smiling releases all kinds of chemicals in the brain [...]
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Most psychology studies aren’t that much use to us in our daily lives because most psychologists aren’t that interested in giving us practical advice on how to improve ourselves. In these two studies, however, the researchers stumbled across a way to drastically improve our daily lives. They figured out how to make people get [...]
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A smile!
But not just any kind of smile, it has to be a slow smile.
Slow Smiles over Quick Smiles
In this study, participants were asked to judge smiles shown to them on a computer screen. Overall, it was found that the smiles that formed slowly (0.5 seconds) were more attractive, trustworthy, and authentic than [...]
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I’ve talked on Improved Lives before about how neuroplasticity is what makes personal growth work, and there is a really exciting new study that backs that up in a dramatic way.
In this study, researchers got the study participants to learn how to juggle, but before they did, they took brain scans to use as [...]
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One of the most neglected ways in which we can create healthier, more positive minds for ourselves is through our bodies. Our minds and our bodies are very much interconnected, but we in the western world often fail to recognize this.
However, if you are willing to try, you might be surprised by how much [...]
