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New study shows body focus affects how both men and women see others For both men and women, wearing revealing attire causes them to be seen as more sensitive but less competent, says a new study by University of Maryland psychologist Kurt Gray and colleagues from Yale and Northeastern University. In an article just published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the researchers write that it would be absurd to think people's mental capacities fundamentally change when...

Sadhguru, founder of Isha Foundation, ignites waves of consciousness through Project GreenHands and Inner Engineering. New York, NY (PRWEB) September 29, 2011 Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, a realized yogi, who was named one of India’s 50 most influential people in 2010, has made it his mandate to raise human consciousness. According to Sadhguru, “Modern technology has a tremendous capacity for creating well-being, but it can also bring great destruction. It is therefore vital to...

March 24, 2012 Event in San Francisco Features World-Class Lineup of Luminaries for a Ground-breaking Public Conversation SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Baumann Foundation (TBF) today announced the launch of a new public event "Being Human 2012: Science, Philosophy and Your Life," where pioneers in the exploration of human nature -- from behavioral economics, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, social anthropology and philosophy -- will come...

Are you wooed by advertising? Of course you are. After all, it's one thing to go out and buy a new washing machine after the old one exploded, quite another to impulse-buy that 246-inch flat screen TV that just maybe, in hindsight, you didn't really need. Advertisers come at you in two ways. There is the just-the-facts type of ad, called "logical persuasion," or LP ("This car gets 42 miles to the gallon"), and then there is the ad that circumvents conscious awareness, called "non-rational...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Reconnection's 9th Annual U.S. Mastery Conference on October 22 will give Southern Californians the rare opportunity to see and hear some of the top-selling author/speakers at the nexus of healing, science and consciousness. Headliners include Lynne McTaggart (The Field and The Intention Experiment), Gary Zukav (Seat of the Soul, Heart of the Soul, Soul Stories), Joe Dispenza (Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind) Lee Carroll...

Our brain is divided into two hemispheres, which are linked through only a few connections. However, we do not seem to have a problem to create a coherent image of our environment – our perception is not "split" in two halves. For the seamless unity of our subjective experience, information from both hemispheres needs to be efficiently integrated. The corpus callosum, the largest fiber bundle connecting the left and right side of our brain, plays a major role in this process. Researchers...

A new University of Alberta study says when it comes to goal setting, your unconscious mind can be a great motivator. Alberta School of Business researcher Sarah Moore and colleagues from Duke and Cornell universities say that unconscious feelings about objects in the environment influence the pursuit of long-term goals. Their study explores how the unconscious mind responds to objects in relation to an individual's goals—and how the unconscious continues to influence feelings about...

Every day we make thousands of tiny predictions "” when the bus will arrive, who is knocking on the door, whether the dropped glass will break. Now, in one of the first studies of its kind, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are beginning to unravel the process by which the brain makes these everyday prognostications.While this might sound like a boon to day traders, coaches and gypsy fortune tellers, people with early stages of neurological diseases such as schizophrenia,...

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but how do our brains decide when and who we should copy? Researchers from The University of Nottingham have found that the key may lie in an unspoken invitation communicated through eye contact.In a study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, a team of scientists from the University's School of Psychology show that eye contact seems to act as an invitation for mimicry, triggering mechanisms in the frontal region of the brain that...

An unexpected discovery has led scientists to open an intriguing new window into the human brain, via the visual system.Their finding may have implications for better understanding of states such as sleep, epilepsy and anaesthesia say the research team leaders Dr Sam Solomon and Professor Paul Martin of The Vision Centre and The University of Sydney.Potentially it could open up a new pathway for manipulating brain rhythms to manage disorders such as insomnia and epilepsy, the team speculate...