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Policy makers, employers and others can use the science of behavioral economics to steer people toward wiser choices – and dramatically improve their health – without limiting their freedom to do as they please, according to an article published in the Nov. 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The paper [...]

Professor Dinesh Bhugra has been elected unopposed as the next President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and will begin his term of office during the College’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 2 July 2008. Professor Bhugra is Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and Honorary [...]

You might think that a long vacation is the way to beat job burnout. But the kind of vacation you have is just as important — if not more important — than its length, concludes Prof. Dov Eden, an organizational psychologist from Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Management. The key to a quality vacation, he [...]

Cambridge researchers have discovered that individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and their close family members have distinctive patterns in their brain structure. This is the first time that scientists have associated an anatomical trait with familial risk for the disorder. These new findings, reported in the journal Brain, could help predict whether individuals are [...]

In theory, psychiatric advance directives provide a way to improve medical decision making during a mental health crisis. Directives indicate, in advance, what treatments a patient prefers or who should make decisions if he or she becomes incapacitated. However, two key controversies surround these directives, reports the December 2007 issue of the Harvard Mental Health [...]

The feelings an individual has on receiving his paycheque depend critically on how much his colleague earns. Hard evidence for this comes from an experiment conducted by economists and brain scientists at the University of Bonn. They tested male subjects in pairs, asking them to perform a simple task and promising payment for success. Using [...]

The feelings an individual has on receiving his paycheque depend critically on how much his colleague earns. Hard evidence for this comes from an experiment conducted by economists and brain scientists at the University of Bonn. They tested male subjects in pairs, asking them to perform a simple task and promising payment for success. Using [...]

Dr. Bruce McCandliss, a psychologist at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology and associate professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, has received a commendation by the President of the United States in the form of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor [...]

Doctored photos of past public events can influence what people think they remember of the incident, as well as altering their attitudes and any subsequent responses, according to research published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. Three researchers (two in Italy and one in the USA) came to this conclusion after showing either original or [...]

Telecommuting is a win-win for employees and employers, resulting in higher morale and job satisfaction and lower employee stress and turnover. These were among the conclusions of psychologists who examined 20 years of research on flexible work arrangements. The findings, based on a meta-analysis of 46 studies of telecommuting involving 12,833 employees, are reported in [...]