Mindfully Healing

These five character traits are more attractive than your education or genetics. Playfulness is one of the more attractive personality traits, psychologists have found. Playful people are also particularly keen for their partners to be playful. The playful prefer someone who is funny, laidback and creative. The most five most attractive personality traits, though, are: kindness and understanding, intelligence, sense of humour, being fun loving, and having an exciting personality. The signal that playfulness sends Playful people enjoy teasing, wordplay, improvising and taking challenges in a lighthearted way. They enjoy

How detectives and intelligence officers can tell if someone is lying. Deceptive people generally want to say as little as they can, psychological research into lying finds. Instead of trying to tell an elaborate story, they actually clam up, on the basis that lies should be kept as simple as possible. Psychologists recommend that detectives and intelligence officers encourage their suspects to talk. This is just one of the findings of a review of 60 studies on deception carried out by Professor R. Edward Geiselman and colleagues. Professor Geiselman has

…and what people wear when they are happy. Jeans are what women are most likely to wear when depressed, a survey finds. Most likely to accompany it is a baggy top or sweatshirt, the research also found. When happy, though, women were more likely to wear something well-cut and made from bright and beautiful fabrics. Only one-third would wear jeans when feeling happy. Hats and favourite shoes were also popular when in a good mood, along with jewellery. Professor Karen Pine, co-author of the study, said: “This finding shows that