Psychology

Freudian Slip: Spontaneous Thoughts Evoke Meaningful Self-Insight

Spontaneous thoughts, intuitions, quick impressions, we all have random thoughts popping into our minds on a daily basis and sometimes they even pop out of our mouths. What to make of unplanned, spur-of-the-moment thoughts? If you know bad psychologists, ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 6:00pm

Eckhart Tolle On Zen, God Not Masturbation

I may have once endorsed Eckhart Tolle by pointing out similarities between Tolle and Muho. Muho wrote to me that he does not know why his own meditative practice worked for him. In my eyes, such honesty and awareness about uncertainty are consistent with ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 7 2017 - 7:02am

Gender Stereotypes In Academia Keep Women Out?

In the medical work force, women have representation no different than any other corporation. That makes sense, women have accounts for half of all medical student graduates for decades. Yet in the top tiers of academia, they lag behind men. Is that gende ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 1:59pm

Want To Seem More Attractive? Have A Pleasant Smell

Want to be sexier? Ask your next potential boyfriend to meet you in a bakery. Perfumes and scented products have been used for centuries as a way to enhance overall personal appearance and studies have shown that perception of facial attractiveness could ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 5:41pm

Start Them Early, Give Them Often If You Want Kids To Like Vegetables

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, say psychologists from the University of Leeds. ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2014 - 5:49pm

How Addicted Are You To Cigarette Smoking?

In Mexico, 21.7 percent of the population smokes. By now, smoking has been implicated in every possible condition- lung cancer, obviously, but then crazy claims like that third-hand smoke could lead to epigenetic changes that make your grandchildren obese. ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2014 - 11:32am

Women, You Do Worse On Math Tests If You Wear A Bathing Suit

Everything you do changes your brain, even reading this sentence. A psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire believes that clothing impacts the way we think and literally changes our brains. We know some of this to be true; everyone has a favorite ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2018 - 4:20pm

Undergraduate Student Surveys And Amazon's Mechanical Turk Predict Sexism- Psychologists

A sense of entitlement appears to be linked to sexism, say psychologists who believe entitled men are more likely to endorse hostile views of women while entitled women are more likely to think women are frail and need extra care.   Entitled men were foun ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2014 - 9:27am

The Role Of Social Media And Internet Sites In Suicide Clusters

700 people under the age of 25 die by suicide in the UK per year. 160 young people under the age of 20 die by suicide in England each year and there are higher rates of suicide in young people in Scotland and Northern Ireland than in England and Wales. Why ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 8:44am

Almost Human? Rats Show Regret, Says Study

Can rats show regret and, if so, how would we know? Neuroscientists at the University of Minnesota say they do and it's intriguing because regret is a cognitive behavior thought to be uniquely and fundamentally human.     "Regret is the recognit ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 10:08pm