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Want another reason to fear stress .   It could make you go blind . Really. A new study has found that psychological stress can cause vision loss . Persistent psychological stress, which is widely recognized as a consequence of vision loss, is also a major contributor to its development and progression, according to newswise.com .  "There is clear evidence of a psychosomatic component to vision loss, as stress is an important cause − not just a consequence − of progressive vision loss resulting from diseases such as glaucoma, optic neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration," says Prof. Bernhard Sabel, PhD, director of the Institute of Medical Psychology at Magdeburg University, Germany, lead investigator of the study.  The study is based on a comprehensive analysis of hundreds of published research and clinical reports on the relationship of stress and ophthalmologic diseases.  “Continuous stress and elevated cortisol le...

Want to find your keys quicker?  Or, in my case, glasses that seem to disappear every morning and every night?  Write "keys" on a light switch you use every day. Too simple?  In my house where things go missing all the time (probably because there are two very middle-aged people living there), a new study says that   brain-sciences memory research at Washington University in St. Louis shows that where someone looks can be guided by their recent interactions with the environment. Our visual world is cluttered, complex and confusing, newswise.com reports. “We can’t fully process everything in a scene, so we have to pick and choose the parts of the scene we want to process more fully,” says  Richard Abrams , professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences. “That is what we call ‘attention.'" So then, how do we choo se which parts of a scene deserve our attention? I probably know what it's like when you come home from work.  Firs...

We all know that having religion in your life can, perhaps, help us to live a more soothing, comfortable existence.  For many people, believing in a power greater than themselves can lead to a calmer, more satisfying life.   Now a new study says that, if you read obits, people who live the longest have belonged to a church or synagogue or mosque, according to newswise.com. This new nationwide study has found that people with a religious affiliation may live four years longer than those without. That four-year boost – found in an analysis of more than 1,000 obits from around the country – was calculated after taking into account the sex and marital status of those who died, two factors that have strong effects on lifespan, the website reports. The boost was slightly larger (6.48 years) in a smaller study of obituaries published in a Des Moines, Iowa, newspaper.  “Religious affiliation had nearly as strong an effect on longevity as gender does, which is a m...

Your boss just yelled at you.  You feel flatter than a pancake. But did you know she might feel pretty crappy, too? It can also ruin theirs though, and can lead to major behavioral changes that flip their attitudes at work. A new study has found that  abusive bosses  actually, once they've humiliated an employee, try to make reparations later in the day.  Maybe not to that particular employee but to the office, in general, according to newswise.com. New research  from Michigan State University published in Journal of Applied Psychology took prior workplace studies, which focused primarily on the impact abusive bosses have on their employees, and refocused the lens to see how the bosses respond to their own abusive behavior, newswise.com reports. “Based on prior research, it wasn’t clear whether supervisors even realized when they were abusive toward others,” Russ Johnson, associate professor of management and lead author of the study, says at the websit...

Who was it who once said, the most tragic word in the English language is "if"? I certainly agree.  Now a new study says that we are haunted by our regrets , according to newswise.com.  In fact, the headline they used was, "Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda."  Remember Hillary?  Well, anyway. . . Psychologist  Tom Gilovich  and former Cornell graduate student Shai Davidai have found people are haunted more by regrets about failing to fulfill their hopes, goals and aspirations than by regrets about failing to fulfill their duties, obligations and responsibilities. The research, “The Ideal Road Not Taken,”  builds on the idea that three elements make up a person’s sense of self: the actual, ideal and the ought selves. The actual self is made up of the attributes a person believes they possess. The ideal self is the attributes they would ideally like to possess, such as hopes, goals, aspirations or wishes. The ought self is the person they feel they should hav...