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		<title>Good News About Our Attention – It&#8217;s Getting Better &#8211; Meta-Analysis Shows</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2025/11/14/good-news-about-our-attention-its-getting-better-meta-analysis-shows/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Scientific Method]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A major new meta-analysis (287 independent experiments, more than 21,000 participants, spanning 1990–2021) shows that adults today perform better on concentration tasks than previous generations. Key findings: Adults score significantly higher on concentration performance (CP) in the d2 Test across 31 years. Our attention capacity hasn’t declined — it has strengthened. There is no evidence [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Does Brain Training Work or is it a Waste of Time? This is What Research Shows</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2014/11/02/does-brain-training-work-or-is-it-a-waste-of-time-this-is-what-research-shows/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Brain training is a hot topic. It’s a million-dollar business and its popularity is still increasing. We have been interested in increasing people’s intelligence since the study of intelligence, but computerized brain training is a relatively new invention. So, are computerized brain training games popular because of their positive effects on intelligence or are they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Brain&#8217;s Reward System: Is Dopamine the Only &#8216;Feel Good&#8217; Chemical?</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2014/02/22/the-brains-reward-system-is-dopamine-the-only-feel-good-chemical/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuropsychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dopamine]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Much evidence has associated dopamine with the brain&#8217;s reward system. For this reason, dopamine has been called the &#8220;feel good&#8221; or pleasure chemical. Stimulation of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, makes us feel good. We like to do things that makes us feel good. Dopamine affects our thoughts and behavior in this way. For example, when we eat, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Study: Smiling Makes You More Attractive</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2013/08/27/just-smile-smiling-makes-you-more-attractive/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Behaviors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuropsychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A study by Golle, Mast &#38; Lobmaier (2013) shows how emotional expressions of happiness influence the judgment of attractiveness. The researchers manipulated faces with computer graphics software to systematically change shape-related attractiveness and happiness, while they kept other facial attributes constant. In this way, the participants saw identical faces that only differed in attractiveness and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Personalities: Fact or Fiction?</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2013/08/17/left-brain-vs-right-brain-personalities-fact-or-fiction/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new study by Nielsen and colleagues (2013) examined this by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The authors obtained data from fMRI reports of 1011 individuals between the ages of 7 and 29. These fMRI reports revealed the individuals&#8217; resting brain activity. If the resting brain was more active in one side relative to the another, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Manual Experience With an Object Shapes Its Meaning</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuropsychology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The sensorimotor-based theories posit that the brain becomes activated in the same brain regions when people perceive and interact with an object, and when they store its meaning. Therefore, having an experience with an object should shape its meaning (Yee et al., 2013). For example, thinking about a manipulable object will result in brain activity in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Your Mood Influences Your Cognitive Functioning</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2013/05/05/the-influence-of-moods-on-cognition-and-executive-functions/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 09:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuropsychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive flexibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dopamine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive functions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heuristic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serotonin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A literature review by Mitchell &#38; Phillips (2007) examined how positive and negative moods influence people&#8217;s cognitive functioning, or more specifically, executive functions.  Positive moods impair certain aspects of people&#8217;s executive functioning. The increased dopamine levels found in happy people are probably responsible for this effect on cognition, the authors say. For this reason, a positive mood seems to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Impact of Serotonin on Social Behaviors</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2013/04/26/serotonin-on-social-behaviors/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Moral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuropsychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antisocial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The impact of the neurotransmitter serotonin on the brain functioning is extensive, and the treatment of a number of psychological disorders involves serotonin in some way or another. A new experimental study by Crockett and colleagues (2013) examined the influence of serotonin on the social behaviours fairness and justification (retaliation). They did so by conducting a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Effects of Glutamate in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2013/04/03/anxiety-medication-the-effects-of-glutamate-in-the-treatment-of-anxiety-disorders/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuropsychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anxiety disorders are some of the most frequent psychological disorders, and the processes involved in fear conditioning seem to be the same across species, i.e. the same neural structures may be involved. For this reason, it makes sense to study animals, because obtained knowledge from animal studies contributes to our understanding of anxiety in humans. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Are The Main Functions of the Frontal and Temporal Lobes?</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2013/03/22/frontotemporal-atrophy-and-cognitive-disabilities/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuropsychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atrophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[degeneration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frontotemporal]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What are the main functions of the frontal and temporal lobes? Frontotemporal dementia shows us. Frontotemporal degeneration typically occurs because of frontotemporal dementia. It is called frontotemporal dementia because the frontal lobes as well as the temporal lobes are involved.  Frontotemporal dementia represents 10-20% of all dementia cases. It is typically affecting the younger population, in contrast to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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