Better Living Through Psychology

Take a look at this article from MSNBC: Placebo’s power goes beyond the mind For years, scientists have looked at the placebo effect as a nuisance – just a figment of overactive patient imaginations. People who got a dummy medication as part of a clinical trial believed they were better, but really weren’t. But new [...]

A woman’s sex drive begins to plummet once she is in a secure relationship, according to research. Researchers from Germany found that four years into a relationship, less than half of 30-year-old women wanted regular sex. Conversely, the team found a man’s libido remained the same regardless of how long he had been in a [...]

…you’re getting more sleep than you think you are. Allison Harvey and Nicole Tang of Oxford University showed in one experiment that people with primary insomnia underestimate the total amount of sleep they get and overestimate how long it takes them to fall asleep. This suggests that maybe it’s not so much the amount of [...]