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		<title>How Childhood Hunger Can Change Adult Personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The effects of going hungry in childhood may be more lasting than previously thought. Researchers studying people raised on Barbados who suffered severe starvation as infants found these adults were more anxious, less sociable, less interested in new experiences and more hostile than those who were well-nourished throughout childhood, according to a study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Scientists led by Dr. Janina Galler of Harvard Medical School studied 77 children, born between 1967 and 1972, who were hospitalized for severe starvation syndromes known as marasmus or kwashiorkor at an average age of seven months, to determine how the malnutrition affected personality development. Kwashiorkor results from a lack of protein and is marked by the protruding belly that has become a familiar symptom of child starvation.  Marasmus is caused by poor caloric intake and children with this condition look more emaciated.  Some children in the study had symptoms of both.  Worldwide, nearly 3 million children under five die of hunger annually— and around 25% of the world’s children suffer stunted growth due to malnutrition, according to the World Health Organization. MORE: Effects of Child Hunger on Health Can Last Decades The children in the study were enrolled in a hunger treatment and prevention program at the Barbados Nutrition Center, which provided food as well as home visits to monitor their recovery and nutrition education until they were 12.  None of them had been born underweight or suffered from further starvation after the program started. Although their growth was stunted, they caught up with normal growth curves by adolescence.  This group was compared with 57 school classmates, matched in age and gender, who had not suffered starvation. The malnourished children were five times more likely to score higher than normal on tests of neuroticism — a trait that measures negative emotions and a tendency to feel uncontrollable distress— when they were in their 40s, compared to the well-nourished controls. Hunger also seemed to have an effect on suppressing development of extraversion, or sociability, since the children who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84376&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Personalities Are Constantly Changing, Even if We Think They&#8217;re Not</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/04/our-personalities-are-constantly-changing-even-if-we-think-theyre-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue and John Cloud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rare that scientific journals explicitly engage philosophical conundrums, but a paper in this week&#8217;s Science magazine begins with the question: &#8220;Why do people so often make decisions that their future selves regret?&#8221; At age 18, that skull-and-crossbones tattoo seems like an unimpeachably cool idea; at 28, it&#8217;s mortifying. You meet the man of your dreams at 25 — except that your dreams have become so different by 35 that you end up divorced. &#8220;Even at 68, people think, Ugh, I’m not the person I was at 58, but I’m sure I’ll be this way at 78,&#8221; says one of the Science study authors, Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University and author of the book Stumbling on Happiness. An obvious answer to the question is that people mature — that &#8220;change is inevitable,&#8221; as British politician Benjamin Disraeli said, that &#8220;change is constant.&#8221; But after examining the responses of more than 19,000 people gathered over four months in 2011 and 2012, the researchers— Gilbert, Jordi Quoidbach, of the National Fund for Scientific Research in Belgium, and University of Virginia psychologist Timothy Wilson — discovered that even though most people acknowledge that their lives have changed over the past decade, they don&#8217;t believe change is constant. Against all evidence, most people seem to believe that who they are now is pretty much who they will be forever. (MORE: How Overconfidence and Paranoia Become Self-Fulfilling Prophecies) For example, the average 33-year-old surveyed expected less change over the next decade than the average 43-year-old reported actually had occurred over the past decade. As the paper says, &#8220;People, it seems, regard the present as a watershed moment at which they have finally become the person[s] they will be for the rest of their lives.&#8221; Although personality and values do tend to become more stable with age, people generally underestimate the extent of future personality shifts. The researchers call this phenomenon &#8220;the end of history illusion.&#8221; Proving an illusion is a giant epistemological problem, which is one reason the authors recruited so many participants for their study — although<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77127&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Psychopaths: Q&amp;A With Psychologist Kevin Dutton</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/19/learning-from-psychopaths-qa-with-psychologist-kevin-dutton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s too simplistic to think of psychopaths as being murderers or law-breakers, says Oxford psychologist Kevin Dutton. In his new book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Dutton examines what we can learn from those who lack conscience but are also bold and highly resilient to stress. What exactly is a psychopath? No sooner is the word out of someone’s mouth  than images of [serial killers] like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer come to mind. It doesn’t automatically mean that you’re a criminal or serial killer.  When psychologists talk about psychopaths, what we refer to are people with a distinct set of personality characteristics including ruthlessness,  fearlessness, mental toughness, a charismatic personality and lack of conscience and empathy. You write that you think your father was a psychopath… It sounds like a crazy thing to say, but there’s no doubt at all about it. He was a nailed down psychopath.  He wasn’t violent. He was a market trader [in the U.K., a person who sells things at an open-air street market].  One of the central messages of the book is that you don’t need to be violent to be a psychopath.  My dad was ruthless, fearless and also extremely charming. He could have sold shaving cream to the Taliban. So what would be an example of his psychopathic behavior? When I was a kid, probably about 9 or 10 [years old], we went to an Indian restaurant for dinner. Just as my dad was about to pay, he suddenly tinked his spoon against his glass and stood up. The whole restaurant went silent. My dad said, “I’d just like to thank you all for coming; some from just round the corner, some from much further afield. You’re all most welcome to join us for a little drinks reception across the road.&#8217; And so an entire restaurant of strangers who had never seen us before were  all applauding wildly because they didn’t want to be seen as gatecrashers. We just took off. He [told me] we’re not going to the pub really and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74169&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psychopathic Traits:  What Successful Presidents Have in Common</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/11/psychopathic-traits-what-successful-presidents-have-in-common/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political partisans delight in labeling opposition leaders as malign or even psychopathic — but it turns out that U.S. presidents with high levels of certain psychopathic traits may actually do better on the job, no matter what their party affiliation, according to new research. The study, which was based on presidential performance ratings and personality assessments by hundreds of historians and biographers in several different surveys, found that one psychopathic characteristic in particular was linked to success in presidency: fearless dominance. “An easy way to think about it is as a combination of physical and social fearlessness,” says Scott Lilienfeld, lead author of the study and professor of psychology at Emory University. “People high in boldness don’t have a lot of apprehension about either physical or social things that would scare the rest of us.” He adds, “It’s often a kind of resilience because you don’t show lot of anxiety or frustration in the face of everyday life challenges.” While that sounds like a necessity for dealing with the daily crises that face the White House, from hurricanes to threats from rogue nuclear nations, the same trait in psychopaths is also associated with callousness, indifference to negative consequences and impulsive antisocial behavior. It&#8217;s not to say that American presidents are full-blown psychopaths — they didn’t rate high in all categories of psychopathic traits. Overall, the study found, presidents tended to be more like psychopaths than the general population in their level of fearless dominance, but they didn&#8217;t show a psychopathic excess of impulsive antisocial behavior. Although “some might think presidents are extremely psychopathic,” Lilienfeld says, the combination of traits that make them successful can&#8217;t all be characterized as such. “They need to be bold and self confident to be willing to run, but they also have to have an amazing capacity to delay gratification and a lot of impulse control, at least in some domains.” All U.S. presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush were included in the research (there was not yet enough data for President Obama). Researchers<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68558&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Oz: How to Overcome &#8216;Emotional Inertia&#8217; and Change Your Life</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/06/the-deadly-words-i-know-i-should/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions — a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you&#8217;re not going to make them at all. There&#8217;s no way of knowing for sure which of your plans are destined for cryopreservation, but when you utter the words &#8220;I know I should,&#8221; it&#8217;s a pretty good bet that you&#8217;ve found one. &#8220;I know I should lose weight&#8221; too often means you won&#8217;t. &#8220;I know I should quit smoking&#8221; is what you say right before you light up. &#8220;I know I should work out more or leave a bad marriage or get out of this lousy job,&#8221; are far too often followed by the word, &#8220;but.&#8221; And that&#8217;s generally the end of it. The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It&#8217;s hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order — and that in some cases it could even save your life. So why do we wind up lost at sea, somewhere between the shores of I-know-I-should and I&#8217;m-actually-doing-it? Dr. Mehmet Oz, who knows a thing or two about motivating people to make life changes, has dug into the recent research and come up with a wealth of recent studies looking at the larger idea of what psychologists call emotional inertia, as well as the strategies — such as incremental goal-setting and group accountability that can get people moving (see his piece in this week&#8217;s issue of TIME, available to subscribers here). There&#8217;s also the surprising concept of social networks — the way good behaviors like exercising or dieting can be passed along virally from person to person, ultimately among people who may not even know one another at all. Become part of the right web and you can pick up<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68056&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Your Shoes Say About You</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/14/what-your-shoes-say-about-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strangers can tell a lot about you, just by checking out your footwear — at least according to researchers from the University of Kansas and Wellesley College. In a study of college students, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, the authors found that people could correctly guess a stranger&#8217;s age, gender and income by looking at their shoes. That&#8217;s no real surprise, considering that the style of a shoe or its designer label can be immediately revealing. But to their surprise, the researchers also found that people could accurately assess another person&#8217;s level of attachment anxiety — whether you tend to be clingy and insecure in your close relationships, or more laid-back and relaxed — based on their choice of shoes. (MORE: What Health Dangers Lurk In Your Closet?) For the study, researchers asked 63 University of Kansas students to look at photos submitted by 208 other students of the shoes they wore most often. The students who volunteered the photographs completed various online personality tests. The viewers were then asked to rate the owners on personality, attachment style, whether they were extroverted or introverted, politically liberal or conservative, and demographic measures like age, gender, and family income. After viewing the variety of boots, flip-flops, lace-ups, loafers, sandals and sneakers worn by fellow students — admittedly, a limited and largely homogenous sample — the study participants were most successful at guessing the wearers&#8217; age, sex and income. After that, they could most accurately guess attachment style: people with anxious attachment styles were more likely to wear new-looking or well-kept shoes, perhaps because they worry about appearances and what other people think of them, the authors suggest. Other associations between shoe style and personality, reports Medical Daily: Practical and functional shoes generally belong to agreeable people, ankle boots fit with more aggressive personalities and uncomfortable looking shoes were worn by calm personalities. However, strangers couldn&#8217;t glean much of this information just by looking at footwear. For instance, they couldn&#8217;t predict others&#8217; extroversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience or political leanings, reports the New York Daily<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62062&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Psychopathic and Sadistic Minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To better understand what makes psychopaths tick, researchers are using brain scans to compare them with other abnormal personalities like sadists and those with antisocial personality disorder.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59370&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humility: A Quiet, Underappreciated Strength</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/27/humility-a-quiet-underappreciated-strength/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humility doesn’t top the list of popular virtues these days, but if you&#8217;re ever in need of help, a humble friend is more likely to be there for you than a prideful one, new research suggests. Humbleness has also been linked with generosity. Studies find that the trait predicts charitable giving and generous behavior toward others in monetary games played in the lab. “Compassion is hard if you don’t have humility,&#8221; says psychologist Jordan LaBouff of the University of Maine. What&#8217;s more, humble people tend to make better employees and bosses. But because the typical American workplace tends to reward self-promotion over humility, such modest types may have a tough time making it to the top. Evolutionary theory suggests that humble people will be more helpful to the group because a trait that involves subsuming one’s own needs to those of others is only likely to be preserved in a species in which cooperation is necessary for survival. Humans, who are generally incapable of thriving or raising vulnerable children in the wild without help from others, are probably one such species. (MORE: Human Kindness Genes Withstand Threats and Fear) In a new study, published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, researchers led by LaBouff set about examining the evidence for the evolutionarily predicted connection between humility and helping. First, they had to define humility and measure it — not an easy task because genuine humility precludes self-advertising. “For the purposes of the study we defined humility as being relatively down-to-earth and capable of understanding one’s own strengths and weaknesses appropriately, not underestimating or overestimating them,” says LaBouff. “It’s not this kind of down, meek, ‘I’m no good,’ low self-esteem feeling. It’s a more appropriate measure of their abilities.” Researchers also framed humility as basically as the opposite of arrogance or narcissism, and used a questionnaire that measures these traits by gauging participants&#8217; responses to statements such as “Some people would say I have an overinflated ego” or “I am an ordinary person who is no better than others.” “I come<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=58116&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Narcissism and Religion an Unethical Mix</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/13/study-narcissism-and-religion-an-unethical-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can’t get enough of yourself? Narcissism can certainly be a social turn-off, and a new study from Baylor University shows that its least appealing features may have the strongest effect on those least likely to be so self-focused: the religiously devout. Researchers at Baylor University surveyed a group of 385 undergraduate students who answered questions about how acceptable they found certain ethically sketchy behaviors, such as an underpaid company executive padding his expense account by $3000 a year, to assess their moral judgment. The students also answered questions about how religious they were, how often they went to church and how important religion was in their lives. Overall, those who were classified as nominal or devout Christians were more likely to show better ethical judgment than skeptics (those who were not very religious). But when the scientists added in additional information on the students&#8217; narcissistic tendencies, the more devout participants tended to make the least ethical judgments. &#8220;Both the nominal and devout groups show degrees of poor ethical judgment equal to that of the skeptics when accompanied by higher degrees of narcissism, a finding that suggests a dramatic transformation for both nominals and the devouts when ethical judgment is clouded by narcissistic tendencies,&#8221; study author Chris Pullig, chair of the department of marketing at Baylor said in the statement. “For both of these groups as narcissism increases so does the tendency to demonstrate worse ethical judgment.” The authors suspect that the effect of narcissism in shaping people&#8217;s behaviors and perspectives is pervasive enough that it can alter people and their views in profound ways. &#8220;Devout people who are narcissistic and exercise poor ethical judgment would be committing acts that are, according to their own internalized value system, blatantly hypocritical,&#8221; study author Dr. Marjorie J. Cooper, professor of marketing at Baylor&#8217;s Hankamer School of Business said in the statement. &#8220;Narcissism is sufficiently intrusive and powerful that it entices people into behaving in ways inimical to their most deeply-held beliefs.&#8221; MORE: Narcissists Know They’re Obnoxious, But Love Themselves All the Same The effect of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=55270&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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