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Does Exercise Truly Make You Happy?

... effective as other forms of treatment such as medication or cognitive therapy ( Moore & Blumenthal , 1998). For depression ... less when they get older. What could be the reason for this decline? Tergerson and King (2002) studied motivations and barriers ... / more

Brain Training: Practice Keeps You Fit

... accompanied by slogans saying something like: "improve cognitive ability and prevent the negative outcome of the aging brain". Just as ... that persons with mild cognitive impairments showed less decline while using the game two to five times a week, compared to those who ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... of copies of a given gene ) that outweigh the costs (the decline in number of gene copies), groups would logically disperse. The ... would result in the evolution of perceptual, affective and cognitive processes that support the development and maintenance of group ... / more

Engagement: A Source of Value, Quality of Life, or Both?

... and physical activities, which acts as a buffer against  cognitive decline  as people are getting older ( Bosma, van Boxtel, Ponds, Jelicic, ... / more

How deliberate forgetting might lead to false memories

... learning (see Figure 1, [3]). Ebbinghaus found a rapid decline in memory retention shortly after learning, followed by a more ... "Neural mechanisms of motivated forgetting ," Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 279–292, 2014.  [5] R. J. ... / more

Viral and harmful: Violence in media and its impact on empathy

... be distinguished based on Hoffmann’s work [5]:  Cognitive empathy , also called perspective-taking, describes the ability ... consumed: while violent portrayals are often linked to a decline in empathy [12], prosocial content can increase empathetic ... / more