Psychology

Round 2: Ovulatory Cycles And Shifting Preferences

By Rob Brooks, UNSW Australia. Settle in for a long read. Over the coming weeks you will be bombarded by shorter, snappier pieces about a controversy inflaming the front where evolutionary and social psychology meet. I’ve touched on this controversy alrea ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 9 2014 - 1:00pm

How To Cheat On Personality Tests, And Other Pseudosciences

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Article - The Conversation - Sep 7 2014 - 7:30pm

Eating Can Be Addictive But Stop The Sugar And Fat As Drugs Comparisons

If you are fat, you might look for excuses that go beyond eating too much and not exercising- and nutritionists and people selling miracle products and fad diets are happy to jump on the latest trend, like that fat, sugar or wheat is doing it to you. But ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 8:30am

Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals- Even Living In A Liberal Democracy

America is a liberal democracy.  Given the modern colloquial connotation of 'liberal' and its undertones of social authoritarianism, calling the United States a liberal democracy will make conservatives bristle, but it's true, and it is par ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 10:30am

Carefully Designed Drug Monitoring Programs Help Keep Addiction in Check

Despite challenges, prescription drug monitoringprograms are essential tools in ensuring opioids and other addictive medicinesare prescribed and used appropriately. ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Sep 9 2014 - 3:34pm

Do Children Make You Happier Or Does The Inability To Have Them Mean Unhappiness?

An analysis of over 7,000 women over a decade after unsuccessful fertility treatment found that women who have difficulty accepting the fact that they can't have children following unsuccessful fertility treatment have worse long-term mental health t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 10:00pm

When Talking About Body Size, Women And Doctors Are Speaking Different Languages

African American women and their female children have the highest obesity prevalence of any demographic group in the United States, and they are also most likely to underestimate their body weight, according to a paper from Rush University Medical Center. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 12:36pm

Sunshine And Suicide Connected

A pop song goes that rainy days and Mondays bring people down. There was always some truth to that and a new paper in JAMA quantifies the link between a lack of sunshine and suicide. The authors found that lower rates of suicide are associated with more d ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 5:04pm

Fat Shaming And Discrimination Don't Lead To Weight Loss

In the UK, where health care is paid for by the government, and in the United States, where health care is increasingly government controlled, fat shaming has become the norm. Since everyone will have to pay for health care, and obese people are more like ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 11:01am

Which Patients Are Most Likely To Delay Hospice Enrollment?

Almost 20 percent cancer patients wait to enroll in Hospice until their last three days of life.  Their courage and determination is admirable, Hospice is palliative care, but it shortchanges both patients and their families and a new paper seeks to creat ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 5:01pm