Psychology

Clinical Trial: Mindfulness Meditation May Lessen Some Symptoms Of Teens With Cancer

The results of a small clinical trial intervention found that mindfulness-based meditation could lessen some symptoms associated with cancer in teens. Mindfulness-based meditation sounds fuzzy, because it claims to focus on the 'present moment' ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 12:01am

Democrats, Republicans See Each Other As Mindless- Unless They're A Threat

When are members of opposing political parties not simply stupid, uninformed, inhuman hordes lacking in ethics and compassion, or incompetent? When they are in charge. Then they can be creators of a vast conspiracy whose manipulative efforts are everywher ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2017 - 12:42pm

Stressed Out Women Become More Prosocial- Stressed Men Hunker Down

We all feel stressed but a new paper finds that how we deal with it is different- even in as broad a category as men and women. Stressed women apparently become more "prosocial".  ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2014 - 10:51am

A New Kind Of Reward Teaches Intrinsic Motivation

I would like for my son, Leif, to play the violin. I’m a serious ex music geek and so in addition to pegging me as an abhorrent tiger parent intent on thrusting my offspring into the one-percent where they can be hedge fund managers and own things like fu ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 19 2014 - 10:12am

Most People Trust Computers More Than Their Business Partners

Trust is an essential basis for business relationships but it can be easily shaken if one business partner exhibits dishonest behavior.  And so a subconscious strategy to help avoid the negative emotions associated with any breaches of trust may cause som ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 1:55pm

Why Russia Is Laughing At Sanctions

This week, the people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted to join Russia. They were jubilant, the Russian people were prideful, and Europe and the United States acted like it was the start of a World War. President Obama levied sanctions on President Vladimir P ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 11:06am

Forget The 47 Percent On Each Side, Swing Voters Hold More Sway Over Candidates

In the 2012 election campaign, Mitt Romney was vilified for saying something everyone knew to be true and extrapolating motivation from it- that each party was going to get 47 percent of the vote no matter what and that dictated economic policy. Only 3 pe ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 1:49pm

Teenage Girls: Obesity And Depression Linked

A new psychology paper research finds that adolescent females who are either obese or depressed are more likely to develop the other. By assessing a statewide sample of more than 1,500 males and females in Minnesota over a period of more than 10 years, th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2014 - 10:46am

Being A Fair Boss May Be A No-Win Situation

Bosses who are most conscientious about the fairness of workplace decisions make their workers happier and their companies more productive, but they may be burning themselves out. A new paper found the act of carefully monitoring the fairness of workplace ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2014 - 9:41am

Why Calvin's Dad Rocks At Explaining Science To Children

Gary Larson tapped into the universal absurd. Charles Schulz helped us identify with the underdog in us all. And Bill Watterson accurately represented a father’s profound and boundless knowledge of the universe, as in Calvin’s dad’s explanation that ice f ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 26 2014 - 1:43pm