| Level | Item |
| Ref No | BPS/001/11/03/01/32/04 |
| Title | BPS Press Releases April 2014 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Description | 5 April 2014: PR14 032 BJHP (Pitch) Birth trauma: Exploring the process of writing about and sharing traumatic birth experiences online.
7 April 2014: PR14 033 BJCP Depression and internal conflicts. Internal conflicts prevent depressed improving their mood. Some people suffering from depression struggle to improve their mental wellbeing due to internal conflicts. Research by Guillem Feixas and colleagues from the University of Barcelona.
11 April 2014: PR14 034 verb_learning: Study provides new insight into how toddlers learn verbs: Children learn and understand the meaning of verbs when shown a variety of similar actions, rather than the same action repeatedly, researchers at the University of Liverpool have found.
16 April 2014: PR14 037 Creativity and recovering from work stress. Creative activities outside work can improve job performance. Out-of-office pursuits can boost areas such as problem solving, helping others, study finds
17 April 2014: PR14 036 JNP (UNI) brain training_tourette. ‘Brain training’ overcomes tics in Tourette syndrome, study finds. Children with Tourette Syndrome (TS) may unconsciously train their brain to more effectively control their tics, a study led by experts at The University of Nottingham has confirmed.
23 April 2014: PR14 035 Beliefs about luck. Luck affects how we judge reckless actions. A person, who acts immorally or recklessly but is “lucky” by escaping dire consequences, is judged less harshly than an “unlucky” person, even when both have committed the same act.
23 April 2014: PR14 038 College binge drinking. Efforts to combat college binge drinking frequently focus on negative health effects, but highlighting the negative social consequences may be more effective. This is the finding of a study carried out by Dartmouth College in the United States and published in the current issue of British Journal of Health Psychology.
23 April 2014: PR14 039 Psychologist May
24 April 2014: PR14 040 BJP Brand names and letter case. Why we would rather go to IKEA than ikea. The way that brand names use capital and lower case letters is vital to their quick recognition. That is the conclusion of a research published today, Friday 25 April 2014, in the British Journal of Psychology by a team of researchers led by Dr Manuel Perea from the University of Valencia.
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