Psychology

Why Replay Had To Die And TiVo Lives- Advertisers Need A Fraction Of A Second Of Branding

If you own(ed) a digital video recorder like a Replay, you probably never felt so liberated.   While watching a television show, it jumped over the entire block of commercials.   You could send programs to friends over the internet and watch them in differ ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2008 - 10:52am

Pretty Women Make Men Shortsighted

Aristotle figured out pretty early on that human beings are by their nature constantly pulled by two opposing forces: on the one hand their propensity to go after immediate rewards, even though they are often deleterious for them (akrasia, or “weakness of ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Nov 4 2008 - 12:18pm

Easing The Psychological Burden Of Being Without A Nose

Patients whose nose has been destroyed by a tumor or injury carry a severe psychological and social burden. Esthetic reconstruction ranges among the most challenging tasks in plastic surgery. Helmut Fischer and Wolfgang Gubisch present the different option ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2008 - 5:23pm

Deep Cerebral Stimulation Has 'Encouraging' Clinical Trial For Patients With OCD

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(OCD) affects as much as 2 % of the population and is considered a psychiatric disorder. It is the number four psychiatric pathology in terms of frequency following phobias, disorders relating to alcohol and drugs, and depressi ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2008 - 9:46pm

Anxiety Disorder Patients Also Think They Have More Physiological Problems

A doctoral thesis carried out at the University of Granada has proved that patients with serious anxiety disorders (panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder) think they suffer more physiological ( ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2008 - 12:28pm

Unhappy People Watch More Television

A new study by sociologists at the University of Maryland concludes that unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as very happy spend more time reading and socializing. The study appears in the December issue of the journal “Socia ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2008 - 12:33pm

Unfair! Revenge. How Women and Men Act

Neuroscientist Tania Singer and her team recruited volunteers to play a game. Some were asked to play by the rules. Others were instructed to ignore them. To not play fair. After all participants played the game together, they were then asked to observe ea ...

Blog Post - Kare Anderson - Nov 18 2008 - 12:19pm

Who Among Us Feels Powerful And How Can We Tell?

In a study I dub “ Are you powerful or not? ” I’d be in a third category. Why? Because I felt insulted when instructed to do what researchers asked of students. At Northwestern and Stanford, no less. Here’s what happened. Two professors, Adam Galinsky, Pro ...

Article - Kare Anderson - Nov 18 2008 - 12:50pm

Is Your World “Me” or “Us”- Centered? Which is More Prevalent?

We instinctively experience situations as individuals or as part of a group.  As David Brooks suggests today, the world is divided into those with an individualist or a collectivist mentality. Guess which group is larger. ...

Blog Post - Kare Anderson - Nov 18 2008 - 12:15pm

How Quickly Would You Conform?

You, too, may laugh in amusement at these Candid Camera style “experiments.” Yet, ruefully, I acknowledge that I might conform within minutes… well seconds? Also, see this other well-known (among psychologists, anyway) “people are sheep” experiment by Solo ...

Blog Post - Kare Anderson - Nov 18 2008 - 12:13pm