Psychology

Good Boss? Bad Boss? Won't Matter, Employees Will Leave For Money

When employees leave a company, there is always an undercurrent of doubt that they might have stayed if they had a good manager. But plenty of well-liked managers lose employees too.  People leave for more money and/or a promotion most of the time, and le ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2016 - 2:35pm

Media Can Skew Attitudes

Why do people on the left think American media is right wing? Because journalists are paid by corporations funded by other corporations? Why do people on the left think journalism is right wing? Because journalists go into the field to make a difference r ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2016 - 7:57am

Argument: Schizophrenia Does Not Exist

The term "schizophrenia," with its connotation of hopeless chronic brain disease, should be dropped and replaced with something like "psychosis spectrum syndrome," argues Professor Jim van Os at Maastricht University Medical Centre in ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2016 - 8:30am

Effectiveness Of Phone And Web-Based Smoking Cessation Programs In Four States

A new analysis indicates that states’ Web-based and phone-based tobacco cessation programs can help people quit smoking, but certain personal characteristics may lead individuals to prefer one type of program over the other.  Quitline (telephone-based coun ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2016 - 11:00am

Native Americans Aren't More Prone To Alcoholism

Sociology scholars say the stereotype that Native Americans are genetically or psychologically predisposed to alcoholism are all smoke and no firewater.  Instead, Native Americans were more likely to abstain from alcohol use than Caucasian Americans and t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2016 - 11:00am

Four Different Ways Couples Show They Care

Want to suck all of the fun out of romance and dating? Talk with a humanities scholar in family dating researcher.  Just in time for Valentine's Day, a University of Illinois academic has identified four distinct approaches that dating couples use to ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2016 - 9:49am

Using Stories To Teach Human Values To Robots

The rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised fears about whether robots could act unethically or soon choose to harm humans. Some are calling for bans on robotics research; others are calling for more research to understand how AI might be co ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2016 - 7:10pm

Will That Baby Daddy Want To Live With His Kids?

A new Northwestern Medicine study has found an adolescent male's attitude toward risky sex, pregnancy and birth control can predict whether or not he will stick around after the baby is born. The longitudinal study-- one of the first reproductive hea ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2016 - 10:45am

Marijuana Smokers 5X More Likely To Become Alcoholics

Adults who use marijuana are five times more likely to develop alcohol abuse or dependence compared with adults who do not use the drug. Adults who already have an alcohol use disorder and use marijuana are more likely to see the problem persist, finds a ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2016 - 9:03am

Buyers Like Homeopathic Products, Even Though They Do Nothing

Survey data find that homeopathic purchases are primarily made by a small segment of the U.S. population for common, self-limited conditions such as the common cold or back pain. Though they can't do anything, a survey in the American Journal of Publ ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2016 - 7:56pm