دردشة الاسمر شات الاسمر موقع الاسمر اكبر تحمع فلسطيني

There are at least three different types of reader, with those people who make frequent backward glances to earlier subject headings and key sentences, demonstrating the better comprehension for what they’ve just read. The two other types of reader are slow and fast ‘linear readers’, who tend to read continuously from one line to the next, making few backward glances. The finding comes from an analysis of the eye movements  [ Read More ]

Patients suffering from depression or anxiety are more likely to choose to sit to their left when visiting the GP, an observation that has implications for the detection of psychological distress among patients. That’s according to a study by Dr. Peter Luck, at Christmas Maltings Surgery in Suffolk. “The seating arrangement I now use in my surgery allows patients to choose their spatial orientation (left/right) with me during face-to-face consultations.  [ Read More ]

Everyone thinks they understand natural selection, but very few do, Richard Dawkins surmised in his 1987 book The Blind Watchmaker. “It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism”, he wrote. Indeed, in a new study, Andrew Shtulman found the majority of 42 Harvard undergraduates misunderstood evolution, seeing it in terms of the transformation of the essence of a species. Such students tended to believe,  [ Read More ]

The characters of people who recover from physical or psychological illness are strengthened by the experience. That’s the suggestion of an internet-based study by positive psychologists Christopher Peterson and colleagues, who say longitudinal research is now needed to confirm their results. Two thousand and eighty-seven participants logged onto a research website and completed a 240-item questionnaire about their character strengths (see here). It was only at the end of the  [ Read More ]

How affectionate parents are towards their children, and how they respond to their children’s distress are two distinct aspects of good parenting that each have a unique effect on a child’s development, psychologists at the University of Toronto have reported. From studying 106 children aged between six and eight, and their parents, Maayan Davidov and Joan Grusec found that parents’ sensitivity to their children’s distress was associated with how well  [ Read More ]

Research is increasingly showing that the success of therapy depends not on the theoretical orientation of the therapist, but on key therapeutic processes that cross theoretical boundaries. Two such processes are ‘problem activation’ – helping the client to face up to their problems, and ‘resource activation’ – reminding the client of their strengths, abilities and available support. In a new study, Daniel Gassmann and the late Klaus Grawe have shown  [ Read More ]

Looking for a date for Valentine’s day? Christopher Bale and colleagues have just published a study in Personality and Individual Differences on what 142 female and 63 male undergraduates thought of 40 chat up lines as featured in mini stories about a man attempting to woo a woman. It was thumbs down to jokes, empty compliments and sexual references (“Well hey there, I may not be Fred Flintstone, but I  [ Read More ]

إنه حديث عن الشعر، وليس أكثر بداهة من الكلام عن الشعر مع شاعر وخاصة إذا كان بوزن محمود درويش وحضوره وأثره العام، لكن الكثيرين يجدون دائما مع درويش سؤالا أحدث من الشعر وأكثر إلحاحا، ربما لأن الحدث الشعري الأهم موجود في دواوينه، ولأن الوجه الفلسطيني له أكثر استدرارا للكلام، والأرجح أن درويش الذي قال في شعره كل شيء عن الشعر وبملء حريته، بالطبع، شعر أن الكلام الطويل عن الشعر يقيده،  [ Read More ]

Marking Essays, Making Lectures Interesting, and Getting Students to Participate in Small Groups. 15 February 2006, University of West England, Bristol. Flexible Delivery – What Does it Mean and What are the Implications for Teaching Psychology? 24 February 2006, Strathclyde University. Teaching Neuroscience within Psychology. 27 February 2006, University of Sheffield.

“From the Archives”, first published in the Digest 29.09.03. If so, join the gang – apparently 10-15 per cent of us are significantly scared while flying. Flight courses run by the major airlines are a successful remedy, but expensive. What about using virtual reality (VR)? Andreas Muehlberger (University of Tubingen, Germany) and colleagues recruited 45 participants with a ‘substantial fear of flying’. They found that 6-months later, participants who had  [ Read More ]