Marching, wiggling and tapping a beat aids young children to develop their self-regulation skills and improve school readiness, as shown in newly-published QUT early childhood research. Associate Professor Kate Williams designed a low-cost preschool program focussing exclusively on rhythm and movement activities linked to pathways in the brain to support attentional and emotional development. “Think...
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Toughen up snowflake! Sports coaches can be emotionally abusive – here’s how to recognise it
Sports coaches have been in the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. At the end of 2018, the University of Maryland investigated a football coach for intimidation, humiliation and verbal abuse. This followed a player dying of heat stroke after a training session on a 41℃ day. Earlier that year, UK swimmer Karen Leach revealed the long-term impact of...
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New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone in Sweat
Cortisol is key to tracking stress, but it’s tough to measure in an instant; Stanford researchers say they’ve figured out how Photo: Stanford University/Science AdvancesStress. We all know it can be bad for us. It affects blood pressure, metabolism, immune response, and memory. Over time, it can contribute to the development of chronic diseases. So...
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At first blush, you look happy—or sad, or angry We can read each other’s emotions from surprisingly tiny changes in facial color, study finds
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Our faces broadcast our feelings in living color—even when we don’t move a muscle. That’s the conclusion of a groundbreaking study into human expressions of emotion, which found that people are able to correctly identify other people’s feelings up to 75 percent of the time—based solely on subtle shifts in blood flow color around...