Psychology

Too Many Choices? Not So Fast, Psychologists Say

Some pyschologists suggests that too many choices can negatively impact our health. But a meta-analysis of 50 published and unpublished experiments that investigated choice overload  found that consumers generally respond positively to having many choices. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2010 - 12:14pm

Underachievers Excel At 'Fun' Tasks, Study Finds

Hard workers who are motivated to achieve generally excel on specific tasks when they are reminded of the benefits of their hard work. But when a task is presented as fun, researchers report in a new Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study, the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2010 - 7:26pm

Video Games Help Explain How We Learn

In a new Cerebral Cortex study, researchers say they can predict a person's performance on a video game simply by measuring the volume of specific structures in their brain. The authors found that nearly a quarter of the variability in achievement see ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:01pm

A Reminder of Generosity: Responses to Haiti

It's strange how quickly the image conjured up of a place can change so quickly for so many. If I'd used "Haiti" in the subject line two weeks ago, I'd guess most of you wouldn't quickly think of how it's the poorest coun ...

Blog Post - Me W - Jan 20 2010 - 10:01pm

Men Feel 'Too Little' Guilt, New Study Finds

A new study published in the Spanish Journal of Psychology indicates that in the West women experience much more guilt than men, and the primary reason is not that women feel too much guilt, but rather that many males feel too little. The authors say more ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2010 - 2:38pm

Teenagers' Behavior Carries Over Onto Facebook, Myspace

A new study conducted by University of Virginia psychologists suggests that well-adapted youth with positive friendships will use social networking sites like facebook and myspace to enhance the positive relationships they already have. The study also indi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2010 - 6:46pm

Girls Inherit Math Phobia From Female Teachers

Research conducted at the University of Chicago shows that female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math often pass the phobia on to female students. Published in a recent edition of PNAS, the findings are the product of a year-long study on ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2010 - 7:57pm

Feelings About Infidelity May Have More To Do With Experience Than Gender

Research has documented that most men become much more jealous about sexual infidelity than they do about emotional infidelity. Women are the opposite. The prevailing theory is that the difference has evolutionary origins: Men learned over eons to be hyper ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2010 - 2:35pm

When Helping Hurts

As someone who occasionally (or sometimes more than occasionally) says the wrong thing in an attempt to be helpful or comforting of "fix" the situation, I was particularly terrified by a recent article in the Journal of Occupational Health Psycho ...

Blog Post - Me W - Jan 27 2010 - 1:13pm

Supernatural Or Not, Prayer May Increase Forgiveness, Mend Relationships

Whether prayer is supernatural or not, the common religious practice may generally benefit the Nine out of 10 Americans who say they pray. In a recent study appearing in Psychological Science, researchers found that when people's prayers are directed ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2010 - 2:51pm