Mindfully Healing

The face shape is also linked to being more aggressive and higher survival of hand-to-hand combat! For short-term relationships, women are most attracted to wider faces, research finds. Men with wider faces are seen as more dominant and aggressive. Dr Katherine Valentine, the study’s first author, said: “Our study shows that within three minutes of meeting in real life, women find more dominant, wider-faced men attractive for short-term relationships, and want to go on another date with them.” For the study, the researchers measured men’s facial width to height ratio,

This colour has a primitive effect on attraction, psychological research finds. Wearing the colour red makes both men and women more attractive to the opposite sex, studies find. When men wear it, red sends signals of status and dominance to others. When women wear it, the extra pull on men may have deeper, biological roots. The study’s authors write: “Our research demonstrates a parallel in the way that human and nonhuman male primates respond to red. In doing so, our findings confirm what many women have long suspected and claimed

Are you just shy or is it a social anxiety disorder? The classic sign of a social anxiety disorder is a strong fear of embarrassment or humiliation in social situations, research finds. Bear in mind that many people are apprehensive in unfamiliar social situations or with those they do not know. Social anxiety disorder is more than being shy. To be a social anxiety disorder, the fear should be so great that the social situation can only be born with considerable distress. Either that or social situations are often avoided

First study to find these changes in the brains of depressed people experiencing suicidal thoughts. People experiencing suicidal thoughts have a certain type of inflammation in their brain, new research finds. Microglial cells activate as part of the body’s inflammatory response. The researchers found that these immune cells were more active in depressed people who were also having suicidal thoughts. The study suggests that neuroinflammation could play an important role in suicidal thoughts and behaviour. It may also offer another route to treat this type of depression: through the use