Psychology

How To Create A Link Between The Internet And Autism

A few years ago, Susan Greenfield said something zany, even for Susan Greenfield: that the rise in autism diagnoses were related to the Internet. As Robery Olley once noted, she is the scholar who in 1994 during her famed Royal Institution Christmas Lectur ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 12:06pm

In A Bad Mood? Someone Is Worse Off On Facebook- And You'll Find Them

Call it cathartic but one modern way people in a bad mood feel better is to go on social media like Facebook and find friends doing even worse. A new paper says that generally people use social media to connect with people who are posting positive and suc ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 1:14pm

Sexting And Selfies:Teen Hormones And Cellphones

Sexting may be a new "normal" part of adolescent sexual development and not strictly limited to at-risk teens, according to a paper in Pediatrics, which the authors say is the first survey to address the relationship between teenage sexting, or ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 9:41am

Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy Report Similar Quality Of Life To Other Kids

Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in childhood, afflicting between between 1 and 4 per 1,000 kids born worldwide. It's more common among boys than girls and only about half of adolescents with it can walk independently but regardless ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 7:06pm

Encourage Diversity: Weight-Inclusive Versus Weight-Normative Health Policy

Emphasizing weight in health definitions could be harmful to patients, finds an article in the Journal of Obesity.  Dr. Rachel Calogero of the School of Psychology at the University of Kent and colleagues recommend that this approach, known as 'weigh ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 4:01pm

Orthorexia Nervosa- Do GMO Opponents Have A Psychological Disorder?

Some people are so obsessed with their food it smacks of zealotry. They might eat only a certain kind of fish cooked on a certain piece of wood.  They might even believe that they can taste the difference between a strawberry processed at an organic farm a ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 10 2014 - 2:38pm

Teenage Depression: Girls Impacted Most

Adolescence is often a turbulent time for both genders, marked by biological changes and substantially increased rates of depressive symptoms. But girls seem to take it a lot harder and a new paper in Clinical Psychological Science believes this gender di ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 12:31pm

Fooling A Kindergartner Isn't As Easy As You Might Think

Pre-school kids have a lot to learn. They often don't even know how to tie their shoelaces or count to 100. But that is an applications issue. When it comes to skepticism, even kids at age 5 show critical thinking skills.  A new study published in PL ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 12:01pm

Receiver Operating Characteristics And 5 Ways To Improve Eyewitness Identification Of Criminals

Psychologists recently carried out hundreds of mock police lineups to determine the most successful procedure for identification of criminals. Inaccurate identification can obviously lead to the prosecution of innocent people while guilty ones go free. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2014 - 4:27pm

Greenpeace Versus Shell Via Lego: The Building Blocks Of A Successful PR Campaign

Stick 'em up. Credit: Me2, CC BY-NC-SA By Toby Miller, Cardiff University ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 12 2014 - 11:16am