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Cyberpsychology courses

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Planning to do study cyberpsychology? There are many universities offering courses, ranging from a part-time curriculum to a a full-fledged two-year study. Cyberpsychology is study of human interactions with emerging technologies. And, most of the courses cover the following: Here’s a list of cyberpsychology courses : MSc in Cyberpsychology; Dun Laoghaire Institute …

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Study links video game addiction to ADHD

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Video game addiction is associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression, a study has found. Cecilie Schou Andreassen, doctor of psychology and clinical psychologist specialist at Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen (UiB), carried out the study with more than 20, 000 participants. “Excessively engaging in gaming …

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AI achieves near-human efficiency in detecting cancer

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A research team from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method,  aimed at training computers to interpret pathology images. The team trained the computer to distinguish between cancerous tumor regions and normal regions based on a deep multi-layer convolutional …

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Why are we addicted to Google?

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Google is slowly replacing books as our primary source of information. It’s quick, easy and most importantly, free. Answers to almost any questions can be obtained in a matter of few clicks. And, now, you can even use your voice to ask questions to Google. So all you need to …

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News from around the Web – July 31, 2016

School children and psychology

In this edition, we have an article talking about the need to include psychology as a mainstream subject in schools, a study explaining why narcissists are attractive, a fascinating story on how scientists have grown a human brain in a lab! Keeping it real Education is the only means to …

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News from around the Web – July 16, 2016

Psychology News - July 16, 2016

We’re starting this weekly feature of presenting you the best psychology news from around the Web today. Every weekend, starting today, we’ll present you some of the best news from the world of psychology. What’s on the menu this week, you ask? We have four of them and all are …

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