Psychology

Almost all of us have experienced loneliness at some point. It is the pain we have felt following a breakup, perhaps the loss of a loved one, or a move away from home. We are vulnerable to feeling lonely at any point in our lives. Loneliness is commonly u ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 9 2015 - 10:31am

Vanilla Yogurt Linked To Happiness

A team of scholars recently looked at what emotional effects- if any- eating different yogurts had on people. Their article in Food Research International claims that being pleasantly surprised or disappointed with a food product can actually change a per ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2015 - 7:08am

Magical Beliefs, Detection And Correction: Why Superstitions Are Hard To Shake

Some people throw salt over their shoulder, some wear a particular shirt when their favorite sports team is playing, while some believe food grown using one process rather than another will mean better nutrition. Even smart, educated, emotionally stable ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2015 - 1:00pm

Has Science Stopped Taking Chances?

By Kate Gammon, Inside Science--Without risky ideas in science, the world wouldn't have new cancer treatments, an understanding of dark matter – or even the World Wide Web. But as scientific disciplines mature, scientists in them choose to go for sma ...

Article - Inside Science - Nov 10 2015 - 8:30am

Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Reduction Beats Placebo

Placebo-controlled trials are the recognized standard for demonstrating the efficacy of clinical and pharmacological treatments so it is significant to proponents of mindfulness meditation that it reduced pain more effectively than placebo. The paper Jour ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2015 - 9:01am

Study Shows Men Attracted to Transgender Women are NOT Gay. DUH!

S cientist who specialize in sex and sexuality tested a sample of men using a device that measures the reaction of a mans privates to various visual stimuli. Men who are attracted to transgender women were not turned on by porn featuring two gay men, bu ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 10 2015 - 11:03pm

Psychiatric Assessments For Predicting Violence Don't Work

A new paper proposes an entirely new approach to risk assessment for future violence. Previous approaches have relied on looking at risk factors that happen to be linked to, but may not cause, violence, for example, being young, male, of lower social clas ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2015 - 4:15pm

Men Eat To Impress Around Women

If you're a man, how much you eat may have more to do with the gender of your dining companions than your appetite, according to a paper published in Evolutionary Psychological Science which claims that men will eat significantly more food in the com ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2015 - 10:53am

Want To Be A Happy Couple? Have Some Sex This Weekend

Sex will make for a happy couple, according to social psychologists, and you don't even need to do it all that often. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2015 - 8:30am

Buddhist Meditation Can Reduce Racism

A popular Buddhist meditation technique that's intended to create feelings of kindness can also reduce prejudice, according to a new psychology paper. The work in Motivation and Emotion says that just seven minutes of Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2015 - 3:27pm