Extras

Eye-catching studies that I didn't get a chance to report on in full:

The personality profile of people who get bullied at work.

Adults with autism are better than healthy controls at dividing their attention.

The biological basis of the nocebo effect - the ability for negative expectations to worsen symptoms.

The newborn babies of mothers who smoked during pregnancy have a more negative psychological disposition than babies whose mothers didn't smoke.

What do clients with borderline personality disorder think of dialectical behaviour therapy, which the evidence suggests is particularly effective for them?

See here for Wikipedia on DBT.

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