Psychology

The Psychology Of Why You Want To Know The Plot Of Star Wars VII

You want to know what movies are about- and that is why spoilers related to the upcoming "Star Wars" movie and "Avengers 2" and whatever else are so popular. Hey, you knew how the RMS Titanic met its demise, and you still watched a movi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 26 2014 - 12:35pm

Lawyers Know This: Emotional Testimony By Kids Is Perceived As More Credible

In a psychology experiment, two young actors (one girl and one boy) portrayed victims in a mock-police investigation. They were questioned by the police about how they had been harassed by older schoolmates. The police interviews were videotaped in two ve ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 1:31pm

Unsurprisingly, Kids Are Not Interested In Healthy Kid Meals

Fast food giants are happy to promote healthy menus- they are in the revenue generation business, they will sell what people want to buy. Yet food activists and government officials seem to lack basic insight into what kids want, whereas marketing will ma ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 9:08pm

Bullying: Popular Kids Impacted Most

A new sociology paper finds that bullying does not just occur among social outcasts. It happens to popular kids too, and the impact may be magnified even more. Popular kids could suffer more from a single act of social aggression. In a study of students a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 11:57am

On Surveys, Customers Prefer Restaurants That Offer Health Food

When people go out to restaurants, they don't care about eating healthy. Great chefs know the secret to food people want is unreal levels of butter. Fast food restaurants have been convinced to spend tens of millions of dollars marketing healthy choi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 10:43am

Oxytocin Promotes Group Lying

Oxytocin, the love hormone, is correlated to everything from maternal attachment to sexual addiction. Now it has been implicated in lying. Oxytocin is a hormone the body naturally produces to stimulate bonding and psychologists from Ben-Gurion University ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 2:36pm

Attachment Research Says It's Okay To Throw Pine Cones At Your Kids

I was at the park the other day throwing pinecones at my kids when a horrified mother asked, “How can you hit your kids with pinecones!” I said it was pretty easy: you just don’t lead them as much. First, this is important because my brain is almost compl ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Apr 2 2014 - 7:29am

From Norway To America, Why Are Young Men Committing Mass Killings?

Recent mass killings in Norway, America and in numerous countries have happened at locations as different as schools, movie theaters, and marathons. Though the actual number of mass killings has not changed in 30 years, they get a lot more attention now. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 10:42am

Women Won't Apply If A Job Sounds Too Male

  There are various efforts to try and spur more equality among genders in certain fields. Companies say they don't care about gender- and they don't, unless government forces them to hire people to fill in boxes on government forms.  They say t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 10:04am

Romance Cyberpsychology: Where People Meet Each Other

Up to 7% of Americans married between 2005-2012 say they met on social networking sites. This has led to a rash of claims by marketing groups for dating sites that it is the future of romance and that more marriages happen to their technology. Between 3 a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 1:06pm