Psychology

Smartphone Social Slippage: Young People Losing Ability To Read Emotions

It's a smartphone world; a decade ago a crowded train of passengers all locked into their phones texting to other people while ignoring the live humans six inches from them was just xenophobic Japanese culture but today it is common all across the de ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2014 - 10:43am

Fungicide Vinclozolin Linked To Great Granddaughter's Stress

Feeling stressed out? Blame your great-grandparents. Psychologists have linked ancestral exposure by a common fungicide, vinclozolin, to the stress levels of rats generations later. Epigenetically. Vinclozolin is a fungicide commonly used by farmers to wa ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2014 - 5:51pm

The Social Norms Of Electronic Cigarette Use By Teenagers

Electronic cigarettes are battery operated inhalation devices that provide vaporized nicotine to users without the harm of tobacco smoke. They are often marketed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes and have filled shelves of convenience stores since l ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 7:00am

Eating Disorders Correlated To Increased Risk Of Autoimmune Diseases

Researchers recently set out to determine the prevalence and incidence of autoimmune diseases in people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.  Patients (N=2342) treated at the Eating Disorder Unit of Helsinki University Central ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 9:21am

Do Moviegoers Prefer Fact Or Fiction? The Surprising Answer

Do you feel sadder watching a documentary about war or a drama about a young person dying of cancer? If you poll most people, they will say there are stronger emotional reactions when stories are based on true events rather than fiction, but a new analysi ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 11:31am

Disillusioned Churchgoers Undergo A Moral Identity Crisis

Dsillusioned churchgoers may find it increasingly difficult to remain associated with their church, yet many also find it difficult to leave.  They have not only a moral identity crisis but deep identity crises as their most important relationships and be ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2014 - 1:31pm

Why Osteopaths Want To Be Called Doctor: Marginal Members Emphasize Group Identity

In the United States northeast, there is a joke that there is an easy way to spot someone who went to Harvard or Yale; it will be the person asking which college you attended. You can substitute Mensa or lots of other groups that have status for members b ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2014 - 11:00am

Ignore The IQ Test: Your Level Of Intelligence Is Not Fixed For Life

By Bryan Roche, National University of Ireland Maynooth We’re getting more stupid. That’s one point made in a recent article in the New Scientist, reporting on a gradual decline in IQs in developed countries such as the UK, Australia and the Netherlands. ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 29 2014 - 11:11am

The Saddam Tapes: Hussein Was A Mass-Murdering Despot, But A Sincere One

Politicians often say one thing in public and other things in private. That is no surprise, people in all jobs do the same thing. Saddam Hussein, the genocidal former dictator of Iraq, has left a legacy most despots do not; he recorded so many of his priv ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2014 - 2:28pm

Anger Face Is Universal, And It Evolved Because Of Psychology

The next time you get really mad, take a look in the mirror. See that lowered brow, the thinned lips and the flared nostrils? That's what social scientists call the "anger face," and they believe it is part of our basic biology as humans. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2014 - 10:00pm