Is the way we hold democratic student-teacher meetings in schools making young people cynical about democracy?
Saturday, November 21, 2009 | Labels: Children, democracy, education, government, schools, young people | 0 Comments
Swearing increases pain tolerance

Dr. Richard Stevens of Keele University has recently completed a fascinating study into the use of swear words when feeling pain - and has discovered as a result that swear words actually increase people's tolerance of pain.
Monday, November 09, 2009 | Labels: language, psychology | 0 Comments
Fascinating study: How to increase altruism in toddlers
Thursday, November 05, 2009 | Labels: altruism, Children, development, evolution, psychology | 0 Comments
Always remember to breathe
In March this year, a Chinese builder hit the headlines when he used Buddhist breathing techniques to keep himself alive when he otherwise would undoubtedly have died. By slowing his breathing and being aware of how to breathe correctly, he managed to create an air pocket for himself as he lay trapped under rubble. Two hours later, when a rescue team dug him out, they were fully expecting the man to be dead, instead finding him alive and most definitely breathing.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 | Labels: religion, Videos | 0 Comments
How self-esteem moderates the relationship between gender and weight preoccupation in undergraduates

Mary Pritchard of Boise State University noticed that research has been conducted into the relationship between gender and self-esteem, gender and weight preoccupation, and self-esteem and weight preoccupation. No studies have yet focused, however, on whether self-esteem is a moderating factor in the relationship between gender and weight preoccupation.
Monday, November 02, 2009 | Labels: anorexia, bulimia, eating disorders, psychology | 0 Comments
Basic personality disorders in relation to alcohol consumption

A group of researchers from the Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology have recently been studying the type of personality that correlates with high alcohol consumption. The personalities of 539 college students - 283 women, 256 men - were analysed using four questionnaires. The researchers concluded that disagreeable disinhibition as a personality trait predicted alcohol consumption both during the week and at the weekend, whereas unconscious disinhibition correlated with alcohol consumption at the weekends only.
Monday, November 02, 2009 | Labels: personality, psychology | 0 Comments
Eating disorder patients who binge display a lower level of cognitive control than those who restrict

Researchers from Belgium and the USA have teamed up to study how personality traits correlate with different types of eating disorder. Working with forty eating disordered participants, they discovered that for patients whose disorder manifested itself through binging and purging, levels of behavioural inhibition, cognitive control and effortful control were significantly lower than those exhibited by patients whose eating disorders involved restricting instead.
Monday, October 26, 2009 | Labels: anorexia, bulimia, cognition, eating disorders, personality, psychology | 0 Comments
About Me
- Scar
- Scarlett de Courcier is a researcher in Psychology & History of Religion, looking into the linguistic development of religious terms and how they affect people's understanding of their own spirituality. She also works for West Sussex Youth Cabinet, helping young people to get involved in democracy; manages an international network of publishers at a new media advertising company in London; and is a freelance proofreader, translator and writer. She loves all her jobs, but when people ask what she does and she replies “I'm in advertising”, she always looks down and slightly to the right. Scar is sickeningly happily married, and lives by the sea with her husband. In her spare time, she likes to read (anything and everything, but a lot of crime fiction), cook, blog, swim, run, sit by the sea at night, sing, write poetry, and sit down with a nice cup of tea. She speaks French and English fluently, as well as Spanish, Italian, German and Romany to an intermediate level, and she has just taken up Sanskrit. She is a petrolhead and is hopelessly addicted to caffeine.
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