<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
<p> <span class="a-plus-plus abstract-section id-a-sec1"></p>
<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Objectives</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Breathing rate and pain are<br />
influenced by a spectrum of cognitive, affective, and physiological interactions. Yet, it is unknown if an individual’s resting breathing rate is associated with pain.</p>
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<span class="a-plus-plus abstract-section id-a-sec2"></p>
<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Methods</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Continuous cerebral blood flow (CBF) and respiration rate were collected in 74 healthy participants during innocuous (35 °C) and noxious (49 °C) stimulation. Mindfulness and anxiety were assessed before acquiring perfusion fMRI data. Visual analog scale pain ratings were collected after pain testing.</p>
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<span class="a-plus-plus abstract-section id-a-sec3"></p>
<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Results</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Slower resting respiration rate during noxious (<em class="a-plus-plus">r</em> = 0.26, <em class="a-plus-plus">p</em> = 0.03) and innocuous (<em class="a-plus-plus">r</em> = 0.28, <em class="a-plus-plus">p</em> = 0.02) heat was associated with lower pain sensitivity. Analyses of the whole-brain fMRI data revealed that higher CBF in the supramarginal gyrus, a central node of the ventral attention network, was associated with a slower breathing rate during noxious heat (<em class="a-plus-plus">r</em> = − 0.51, <em class="a-plus-plus">p</em> < 0.001) and lower reported pain levels (<em class="a-plus-plus">r</em> = − 0.24, <em class="a-plus-plus">p</em> = 0.04). Higher levels of dispositional mindfulness, but not anxiety (<em class="a-plus-plus">p</em> > 0.20), were associated with slower breathing rate (<em class="a-plus-plus">r</em> = − 0.28, <em class="a-plus-plus">p</em> = 0.02) and lower pain (<em class="a-plus-plus">r</em> = − 0.25, <em class="a-plus-plus">p</em> = 0.03).</p>
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<span class="a-plus-plus abstract-section id-a-sec4"></p>
<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Conclusions</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">These findings demonstrate that individuals who naturally breathe slower report lower pain and engage unique mechanisms, suggesting the allocation of attention to physical bodily processes.</p>
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The troll doesn’t care, at all. It got banned clearly or it would be trolling here directly, it’s retaliation. Child psychology will tell you everything you’d need to know about that “user”.
Russia’s Central Bank announced it will hold an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday after the rouble reached its lowest value in almost 17 months on Monday morning.
As Moscow increases military spending and Western sanctions weigh on its energy exports, the currency dropped below the psychologically important level of 100 to the US dollar.
However, it did rise back to above the mark after the bank’s announcement it would review its key interest rate, raising the likelihood of an increase in borrowing costs that would support the flagging rouble.
The meeting was set after President Vladimir Putin’s economic advisor, Maksim Oreshkin, blamed the weak rouble on “loose monetary policy” in an op-ed Monday for state news agency Tass.
He said a strong rouble was in the interests of the Russian economy and that a weak currency “complicates economic restructuring and negatively affects people’s real incomes”.
To help lessen that prospect, the Central Bank said last week it would stop buying foreign currency on the domestic market until the end of the year to try to prop up the rouble and reduce volatility.
Here in Brazil, the wave of conservatism is very strong, mainly because it’s linked to religion, “good customs” and the family. They suffer jokes, physical and psychological aggression and death. It may sound silly, but for these people it is a great victory to have a place where they can feel comfortable and not be afraid of dying.
Babies who die before birth - but had a gestation period of more than six months - must be registered and can have a name in the Spanish civil registry.
Before the change, babies who died after the sixth month of pregnancy were registered in the so-called ‘Abortion Creatures File’, without the possibility of being named or both parents being identified.
Several feminist organisations have also expressed concern that, while the new law is not directly in conflict with the current right to abortion, it is a first step towards recognising the historical demands of anti-abortion groups.
The change in the law does not contradict the current right to abortion, which allows it up to the 22nd week of pregnancy, as the amendment states that only six-month-old stillborn babies can be registered.
However, statistics show that one in four pregnancies does not result in a live birth, and families say they feel by giving a name to their children they are recognised.
“What we need is psychological care and to ensure that these women have the right to have maternity leave just like the mother of a baby born alive, so that they can mourn in peace,” says the lawyer.
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Wildfires and Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Dementia
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Source: Science Daily - Top Health
No amount of air pollution is good for the brain, but wildfires and emissions from agriculture and farming in particular may pose especially toxic threats to cognitive health, according to new research. The research, published today in JAMA Internal Medicine, strongly suggests that agriculture and wildfires—with their release of a range of harmful emissions at high concentrations—are associated with an increased risk of dementia.
<h3 class="a-plus-plus">Abstract</h3>
<p class="a-plus-plus">Research regarding how people choose their long-term romantic partners is extensive, but the understanding of the psychological processes behind these choices, and predicting who people choose, is elusive. This review attempts to examine potential reasons for this elusive nature by first outlining the current state of the literature and then highlighting issues within the current paradigm. First among these issues is a focus on singular perspectives and little attempt to integrate these perspectives with others. Second, many studies focus on increasingly complex designs to explore the predictive utility of trait preferences, attempts which have had only limited success. Third, novel findings appear to be unintegrated with established findings, leaving the potential combination of these ideas unrealized. Finally, long-term romantic partner selection is a complex psychological phenomenon, but current theory and research methodologies are not sufficiently addressing this complexity. This review concludes with suggestions for future research direction, including a focus on the psychology behind the partner selection process and the potential of qualitative enquiry to reveal novel pathways behind these psychological processes. There is a need for an integrative framework that permits the coexistence of established and novel ideas, and multiple perspectives, from both current and future research paradigms.</p>
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Screening Quiz - Psych Central
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Obsessions and compulsions are two types of symptoms associated with OCD. Examples of obsessions, or unwanted thoughts, could include: images of hurting others or yourself. thoughts you consider ...
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<p>Understanding how psychosocial factors can promote better cognition in mid- and later life is important for making recommendations regarding policies and intervention programmes. This study focuses on two psychosocial aspects (social connectedness and social engagement) in order to assess their independent contribution to explaining cognition, but also how their interrelationship acts on cognition. We hypothesised that each of the factors is positively associated with cognition, but also that a combination of both factors contributes more to cognition than each of the factors independently. Our sample comprises 66,504 individuals who participated in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Multilevel linear regression analyses were performed. The results show that higher levels of social engagement and social connectedness are associated with improved cognition. When studying the interaction of social engagement and social connectedness and its association with cognitive function, the analysis shows that better cognitive scores are found in individuals having high levels of both social engagement and social connectedness. Moreover, when one of these aspects is lacking, the other plays a role in cognition protection. This study indicates the importance of social connectedness and social engagement for preserving/developing cognition, which greatly contributes to the quality of life of middle-aged and older adults.</p>
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Have you ever heard translations of Russian, especially Soviet, propaganda? The lies are absurd. They conflict with reality to the point many viewers have firsthand experiences that conflict with them. But they work, because people are trained to believe them - the unbelievable aspect of them makes them far more effective in a weird quirk of psychology
That’s the real reason why you can’t attack Trump from the right - he’ll lie to your face and call you a hater, and his base will believe him. Doesn’t matter if you have facts, doesn’t matter if you’re just repeating his words from last week - if you support Trump at this point, either it’s convenient for you to support him or you believe him in a faith sort of way. Either way, nothing said on that stage is going to change their minds
The other aspect is that Trump is insanely charismatic. He’s great at debate - without an impartial judge that can shut him down, he gets to play by different rules than everyone else on the stage
The best example of this is to read one of his speeches. You might listen to him and go “wtf is he talking about”, but reading his speeches is viscerally shocking. He rambles like my grandpa did when he was having a bad day with dementia - he drifts topic to topic, rarely goes back to finish a point, and like 90% of it is just filler words.
But despite all that, people absolutely love to hear him speak. There’s plenty to say about the man, but his charisma is off the charts.
Engaging him in debate is a fools errand. He will win, because he can sit up there, not make a single coherent point, come up with gradeschool nicknames, and half the country will walk away with the impression that he won the argument
Oh it’s more complicated than that, but getting in to the psychology of fascism involves a lot of typing and there are more articulate authors who have already explained it at length.
it is that they live in an environment where they are told that Hispanic people are a threat, that caravans are “invading” the US to pillage it
I also just thought that, given how thoroughly downvoted that post and all its OP’s comments were, it makes the Admins of Lemmy.world look like they’ve actively gone against popular opinion. Psychologically, mobs tend to dislike that appearance.
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.
Ha … well if I had answers I probably wouldn’t be here! But seriously, I do think this is a tough topic with lots of tangled threads linked to how our society functions. I’m not sure there are any easy “fixes”, I don’t think anyone who thinks that can really be trusted, and it may very well turn out that I’m completely wrong and there is not “better way”, as something flawed and problematic may just turn out to be what humanity needs.
A pretty minor example based on the whole thing of returning to paper exams. What happens when you start forcing students to be judged on their ability to do something, alone, where they know very well that they can do better with an AI assistant? Like at a psychological and cultural level? I don’t know, I’m not sure my generation (Xennial) or earlier ever had that. Even with calculators and arithmetic, it was always about laziness or dealing with big numbers that were impossible for (normal humans), or ensuring accuracy. It may not be the case that AI is at that level yet for many exams and students (I really don’t know), but it might be or might be soon. However valuable it is to force students to learn to do the task without the AI, there’s gotta be some broad cultural effect in just ignoring the super useful machine.
Otherwise, my general ideas would be to emphasise longer form work (which AI is not terribly useful for). Work that requires creativity, thinking, planning, coherent understanding, human-to-human communication and collaboration. So research projects, actual practical work, debates, teaching as a form of assessment etc. In many ways, the idea of “having learned something” becomes just a baseline expectation. Exams, for instance, may still hold lots of value, but not as forms of objective assessment, but as a way of calibrating where you’re up to on the basic requirements to start the real “assessment” and what you still need to work on.
Also … OK Mr Socrates … is maybe not the most polite way of engaging here … comes off as somewhat aggressive TBH.
Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds (hexbear.net)
Russian Central Bank to hold extraordinary meeting as rouble tumbles (www.euronews.com)
Amsterdam opens trailblazing skatepark: A safe haven for LGBTQ and women skaters (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1476849...
Spain's new registry for stillborn babies sparks deeply personal debate (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1476703...
fuck netflix and their fucking clickbait sex thumbnails
Why do they feel the need to show suggestive sex positions? french kisses every thumbnails lines ???...
Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico (prospect.org)
It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community (sh.itjust.works)
!piracy has also been blocked from lemmy.world....
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.