For decades, psychologists’ study of emotional health and well-being has involved contrived laboratory experiments self-report questionnaires to understand the emotional experiences and strategies used by study participants to manage stress. But those hundreds of studies may have taken for granted…
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Fear of missing out impacts people of all ages
Social media addicted teenagers are not the only people who experience the Fear of Missing Out also known as FoMO. In fact, not age, but aspects of self-perception—namely loneliness, low self-esteem and low self-compassion—were more closely associated with the social…
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Half of pregnant women at risk of pre-eclampsia missing out on aspirin
Half of pregnant women who are at risk of pre-eclampsia are missing out on aspirin that can help prevent the condition, experts say Aspirins have been used for decades to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia Every year 23,000 pregnant women…
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Scientists link ulcerative colitis to missing gut microbes
About 1 million people in the United States have ulcerative colitis, a serious disease of the colon that has no cure and whose cause is obscure. Now, a study by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators has tied the condition…
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