Psychology

Driving After Marijuana Use Twice As Common As Driving After Drinking

Many young people know not to drive while drunk but in the wave of health claims and legislative endorsements of marijuana, the message is being lost that you will still be impaired if you are high. Male college students who report using marijuana in the ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2014 - 6:31pm

Culture War: More Mentally Ill People Use E-Cigarettes, Says Causalation Paper

Psychologists probably won't like the implication that e-cigarettes cause mental illness, or vice versa, but in the topsy-turvy world of the American culture wars, where vaccines are bad and inhaling marijuana smoke is good, all fields are going to t ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2014 - 1:38am

Millennials Don't Trust Twitter As Much As Gen X Marketing Departments Think They Do

If you think young adults regard Twitter and other social media as legitimate news sources, think again- they may be letting you think that, but even then they may be doing it ironically. Instead, like most people on Twitter, they retweet messages they li ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2014 - 10:08am

Modern Medicine Is About Living A Good Life: Who Handles Giving Us A Good Death?

We're all going to die, that is nature's way of telling us to get the hint. But it is the purpose of science and medicine to defy nature. Death is going to be standing at the door and doctors have taken an oath to block the way. But what about w ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2014 - 9:50am

Most Frequent Emergency Room Patients Are Drug Addicts

The vast majority of so-called "super-frequent user" patients who seek care in the Emergency Department- a patient is considered a super-frequent user if they visit the emergency room at least 10 times a year - have a substance abuse addiction, ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2014 - 8:59am

Most Discrimination Is Favoritism, Not Hostility

In recent court cases involving affirmative action for university admissions, the obvious question became 'when should it ever end?' and how is that not discrimination? Supporters of race-based admissions argued that ending discrimination would ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2014 - 2:24pm

Premature: Women Do Feel Short-Changed When Men Come Too Early During Sex

She will tell you it doesn't matter. But it does, men. It does. Up to a third of all men have had premature ejaculation- it's all good for them, but a University of Zurich sex researcher says curtailed sexual intercourse without climaxing can be ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2014 - 9:17am

Kappa Opioid Receptors Are New Target For Alcoholism Treatment

Mu Delta Kappa is a key brain receptor targets for opiates because the mu opioid receptor is the primary target for morphine and endogenous opioids like endorphin. The delta opioid receptor shows the highest affinity for endogenous enkephalins. The kappa ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2014 - 10:38am

Mental Illness Reduces Life Expectancy More Than Heavy Smoking

If we care about saving lives, we'd be better off funding more mental health services than we are taxing and penalizing cigarettes companies in order to subsidize the industry that has been built to market against cigarettes. Serious mental illnesses ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2014 - 7:53pm

Mind Versus Soul: What Mechanical Turk Results Can Tell Us About Free Will

Do you have a soul? Even if you do, psychologists say, free will is a conscious choice.  This is nothing new. Religious people of 400 B.C. debunked atomic determinism because they believed in free will, just like they debunked genetic determinism of the e ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 9:34am