Natasha Mitchell in another excellent All in the Mind this week turns a spotlight on depression.

Hippocrates thought melancholia was caused by too much black bile. Now some scientists describe the Black Dog as an inflammatory illness. Heart disease, oxidative stress and omega 3 are all part of the compelling story too, where body and mind reunite.

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50 years ago Stanley Milgram began arguably the most famous experiments in the history of psychology: experiments on obedience to authority figures. Participants were ordered to give what they believed to be painful electric shocks to a ‘learner’, actually an actor.

The September issue of The Psychologist includes a rare interview with Milgram’s widow, Alexandra Milgram, who provides a unique insight into the man, his passions and his motivations. [continue reading…]

A co-worker’s rudeness can have a great impact on relationships far beyond the workplace, according to a Baylor University study published online in the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Findings suggest that stress created by incivility can be so intense that, at the end of the day, it is taken home by the worker and impacts the well-being of the worker’s family and partner, who in turn takes the stress to his/her workplace.

“Employees who experience such incivility at work bring home the stress, negative emotion and perceived ostracism that results from those experiences, which then affects more than their family life – it also creates problems for the partner’s life at work,” said Merideth J. Ferguson, Ph.D., assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Baylor University Hankamer School of Business and study author.

“This research underlines the importance of stopping incivility before it starts so that the ripple effect of incivility does not impact the employee’s family and potentially inflict further damage beyond the workplace where the incivility took place and cross over into the workplace of the partner,” she said. [continue reading…]