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One of the reasons Psychology Melbourne achieves outstanding results with our clients is the additional steps we take to establish and maintain a strong and effective therapeutic relationship - things like individual matching sessions - and the effort we invest in measuring and tracking the progress of the people we work with. The value of these disciplines was brought home...
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The New York Times is doing its best to help students get better results, with another article on the research of clinical psychologists which shows how most of the conventional strategies for remembering stuff you've learned don't help at all when it comes to exams. If you want to get better exam results, says the article's author, Henry L. Roediger III,...
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According to the British Psychological Society's Research Digest, it's time for psychologists toiling away in Melbourne, or for that matter anywhere else in Western countries, to take into account the fact that a lot of people actually don't want to be happy. New Zealanders, for instance, actually fear happiness, having developed something of a national consensus that joy gets followed...
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The sleep problems that beset an extraordinary number of Australians can begin quite early in life. Psychologist Dr Sarah Blunden, head of paediatric sleep research at the Adelaide-based Appleton Institute, says behaviourally-based sleep problems occur in as many as 40 per cent of Australian toddlers. The institute even has a "Snooze for Kids" website. US research suggests that the sleep duration of...
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Coincidentally, after I spent Sunday morning at an APS study group on ageing - an area that we at Psychology Melbourne are developing particular expertise in -quite coincidentally this morning I came across a mention of BBC Radio 4's program on The Science of the Mind, which last week explored the latest research in neuroscience and brain plasticity. That research...
If you're not a psychologist, you probably haven't heard the term "strategic umbrage" or for that matter "line-crossing illusion". They are important concepts for anyone who finds it difficult to say "No", nicely. You'll find them in the work of Columbia University psychologists Daniel Ames and Abbie Wazlawek, who have added a good deal to the literature on assertiveness. In...
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More and more these days, I'm convinced that we are in the early stages of a mass mindfulness movement. Yesterday, for instance, I belatedly caught up with a BBC Horizon show from last year, called The Truth about Personality, which suggested that mindfulness meditation can help us live longer by changing our mental orientation from pessimism to optimism. According to...
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I can only hope an Australian publication picks up the series of two New York Times articles on maternal mental illness in their entirety [so far I've seen only a small, but still shocking excerpt in Essential Baby], because nothing I've seen elsewhere quite conveys the vulnerability of young mothers and their babies and the widespread ignorance of their plight. And...
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A study that looked at the effect of low blood sugar on aggression in marriage must have been quite a hoot: it measured glucose levels in 107 married couples over 21 days and compared the effect of lower levels - essentially the effect of being hungry - on the relationship ... using voodoo dolls and headphones. The participants were told...
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I can imagine that there will be a lot more happy faces in Melbourne management circles in the next few weeks, as leaders and would-be leaders digest the message of an article in The Age by Sylvia Pennington that suggests "If you want to be a successful leader, you're going to need to stick on a happy face." The article...