Feeling unfulfilled could lead to riskier, heavier alcohol use
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People who have three basic psychological needs met are more likely to have a healthy relationship with alcohol, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
New research published by Wiley online in CANCER indicates that psychosocial factors—which influence how a person perceives, interprets, and reacts to their surroundings—do not affect an individual’s risk of developing cancer.
Just published cross-national findings show that expectant parents in Finland, Japan and Portugal value parental cooperation in terms of mutual support, team spirit, sharing, and agreeing on childrearing. However, the availability of institutional support, gender and the care regime, and existing work and parenting cultures shape expectant parents’ future visions of their coparenting.
A new Maths study from the University of Bath in the UK finds that adopting a neutral stance – such as abstaining in a vote – can speed up and stabilise group decision-making. By reducing the pool of active decision-makers, neutrality helps new consensus positions emerge faster.
Researchers at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine have shown that caffeine can restore social memory impaired by sleep deprivation by acting on a specific brain circuit. The findings provide new insights into how sleep loss affects memory-related brain pathways and may inform future strategies to address cognitive impairment.