Psychology

Money Creates Happiness? Only If You're Richer Than Your Friends

Most people think that money is the solution to their problems. But that may only be true if they acquire enough money to improve their social rank, according to a new study in Psychological Science.  The study found that a bigger paycheck was not the solu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2010 - 10:47am

Context Influences Consumers' Judgement

According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, what we think of a product or brand, or how positively or negatively we assess it, depends on the context in which it is viewed. The research suggests that marketers have to carefully construct ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2010 - 6:31pm

Dyslexia and stuttering internally the same thing~

Someday, when man knows the sublevel picutre thoughts of his mind that makes his mind operate he will be privilaged to know what old autistics like me have figured out:our mind. If man could hook monitors to our brain and watch the hundreds upon thousands ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Mar 23 2010 - 9:47am

Optimism May Be Good For Your Health, Psychologists Say

Feeling optimistic may actually help you maintain your health, say psychologists writing in Psychological Science. The authors claim they have found "the first evidence that changes in optimistic expectancies are accompanied by changes in immunity, as ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2010 - 11:36am

Thinking Yourself to Orgasm

Think yourself to orgasm- sounds natural enough......but not for everyone. Some people, injured and unable to feel their genitals may be helped by new research "The relation between the mind and sexual response is still fertile ground for investigatio ...

Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 24 2010 - 6:16pm

Unwrapping the Science of Gift Buying

Scientists in Russia have been studying how to buy the best possible gift. This coincides with an exhibition of the worst presents received by residents in Yekaterinburg last week. High on the list of worst presents ever must be the following: "[an] u ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 25 2010 - 4:30am

Psychologists Say "Fast Food Culture" Promotes Impatience

Not only do evil fast food companies make us fat and tempt our children with deceptive advertising, they also make us impatient, according to a new study in Psychological Science. In fact, mere exposure to fast food and related symbols can make us impatien ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2010 - 6:05pm

Hands Free? So What? Only "Supertaskers" Can Drive And Chat

A new study from University of Utah psychologists suggests that most people are lousy drivers when talking on their cell phones. But a small group of people with an extraordinary ability to multitask can safely drive while chatting, according to a study i ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:05pm

Sleep: As the world turns...it turns out

    If you have ever wondered why we sleep, you are not alone. The puzzle of sleep and the question of why we sleep has been a much-researched topic yielding few really definitive answers. Sleep is a dormant state and some researchers have answered the que ...

Blog Post - James Moon - Mar 29 2010 - 5:44pm

My, my! What a big brain!

A very interesting question has been posed by colleague Mark Changizi (see his fascinating blogs at www.scientificblogging.com) related to brain size as it relates to body size. He presents good information that shows the rather constant relationship of br ...

Blog Post - James Moon - Mar 30 2010 - 12:04pm