Psychology

Culturally Neutral Names Have Better Job Chances, Says Swedish Study

What's in a name? Perhaps more (or less) money.  Before employers have a chance to judge job applicants on their merits, they may have already judged them on the sound of their names, says  a study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Labor ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2009 - 11:50am

Dialectical Bootstrapping- Better Answers When You Can't Use A Lifeline

Herd mentality. Angry mob. Mass hysteria. As these phrases suggest, we are not always confident that a large group of people will come up with the smartest decisions. But numerous studies have shown that a crowd of people usually gives more accurate respon ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2009 - 3:23pm

Was Doing Versus Did- The Verbs You Use Influence Your Behavior

If you want to perform at your peak, you should carefully consider how you discuss your past actions. In a new study in Psychological Science, psychologists William Hart of the University of Florida and Dolores AlbarracÃn from the University of Illinois at ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2009 - 3:27pm

Art Therapy? Drawing Enhances Emotional Verbalization, Say Researchers

Research at the new School of Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Haifa: Drawing enhances emotional verbalization among children who live under the shadow of drug-addicted fathers  "The use of art seems to help with verbalizing trauma. It is ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2009 - 11:23am

Big City Vs Small Town- The Reasonable Person Model

A move from the big city to a small village is always a culture shock, but can it affect just more than your Friday night plans? Now, I've lived in rural and urban locales. But either the local water utilities people put happy pills in the water suppl ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 14 2009 - 9:24pm

M. Nora Klaver- 5 Reasons We Don't Ask For Help

"Asking for help is a universally dreaded endeavor,"  M. Nora Klaver says in her anti-self-help book, " Mayday! Asking for help in times of need. Seven out of ten people admit they could have used help over the last week but didn't ask ...

Article - Diana Deregnier - Mar 17 2009 - 2:20pm

Money And Happiness- Not Minding Being Poor Apparently Helps, Says Psychologist

Though the popular conception has been that "money can't buy happiness," studies have shown that wealth can play a role in enhancing happiness.    A study of American woman by a Princeton University psychologist says money doesn't buy h ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2009 - 8:47pm

Nice Guys Finish First- In Business

It may not work with the ladies, but when it comes to leading a team tasked with developing new products and bringing them to market, new research from North Carolina State University shows that being nice and playing well with others gives you a very rea ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2012 - 4:30pm

Emotions Can Help Predict Future Eating Disorders

A Ph.D. thesis at the University of the Basque Country has analyzed the role played by a number of emotional variables, such as the way in which negative emotions are controlled or attitudes to emotional expression, and to use these variables as tools to p ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2012 - 12:19pm

Strangers Know How To Make Us Happy, Say Psychologists

Want to know what will make you happy?   Ask a stranger.    Another person's objective opinion may be more informative than your own best guess.  The study in Science was led by Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and author of the 2007 ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2009 - 2:49pm