Trusting your instincts leads you to the right answer
A UCL (University College London) study has found that you are more likely to perform well if you do not think too hard and instead trust your instincts. The research, published online today in the journal Current Biology, shows that, in some cases, instinctive snap decisions are more reliable than decisions taken using higher-level cognitive processes. Participants, who were asked to pick...Many still distrust Web sites is yours credible enough?
Many Internet surfers often believe they know a good Web site when they see one. Their intuition is based on a number of surface-level factors. For example, surfers are more likely to trust a site when it a...Privacy, trust still the biggest barriers to electronic record sharing
The question has been raised on many fronts, including the Congress, where some bills seek to provide incentives to encourage the adoption of interactive personal health records, and others that raise privacy concerns are construed...Trust In Doctors Can Affect Taking Medications
Patients who trust their doctors are more likely to take their medications regularly than patients who do not have so much trust in their medical caregivers or are suffering from depressions.// Those findings, from a new study of 912 patients with diabetes, provide evidence that the quality of the doctor-patient relationship can greatly affect patients’ medication use when drug costs b...Repeated checking causes memory distrust
Memory phenomena associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have received increased attention in the recent literature. However, some debate remains about whether OCD is characterized by deficits in memory per se, or by poor memory confidence//. Following from a recent study that demonstrated memory distrust results from repeated checking of a virtual computerized stove, resear...Shortage Of Funds In Primary Care Trust In UK
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has urged hospitals to delay operations until the new financial year in April to help manage the prevailing situation regarding financial deficit in U.K.// The following move is expected to improve or rather eliminate all forms of financial shortcomings in the years to come. Ms Hewitt said: "I understand the anxiety patients will feel if they are living...Trust in Doctor gives better cure
Professor Stefanie Mollborn, Stanford University as reported in the Journal Health Services that patients who had more trust and had regular check ups with their physicians showed better disease// cure compared to patients who had little trust on the treatment given by their doctor. The researchers found that trust and cure were increased in less educated people compared to educated peo...Oxytocin Boosts Trust and Reduces Fear.
A study was conducted by Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, M.D., Ph.D., NIMH Genes Cognition and Psychosis Program, and found that hormone oxytocin weeks the brain’s fear centre. When a brain imaging study was done // at National Institutes of Health's (NIH) & National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) it revealed that oxytocin boosts trust and reduces the functioning of amygdale (fear circuitry) and dis...