Psychology

Arthur & Autism Planet With Indy

The PBSKids show "Arthur" ran an episode featuring a new character, Carl, who has Aspergers Syndrome.  Aspergers is either an autism-like condition or a form of high-functioning autism, depending on which definition you subscribe to.  Its marked ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 10 2010 - 11:42pm

Unfinished picture thoughts

Picture thoughts-before they are converted correctly to words. Eonverye taht can raed tihs rsaie yuor hnad.. To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 11 2010 - 12:48pm

Jealousy Can Blind You, Literally

University of Delaware psychologists say that jealously may literally impair vision. In a recent study published in Emotion, the researchers found that women who were made to feel jealous were so distracted by unpleasant emotional images they became unable ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2010 - 3:27pm

Slender Women Fear Getting Fat

Slender women worry about packing on extra weight, say Brigham Young University researchers who used MRI technology to observe what happened in the brain when people viewed images of complete strangers. If the stranger happened to be overweight and female, ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2010 - 4:40pm

Slective Hearing? OR the normal working of man's mind?

Selective hearing- How many times have you heard that term? It might be totally false!  We are, as humans simply thinking in pictures. ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 18 2010 - 8:32pm

Selective Hearing? OR the normal working of man's mind?

Selective hearing- How many times have you heard that term? It might be totally false!  We are, as humans simply thinking in pictures. ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 18 2010 - 9:53pm

Morality Controls Physical Endurance, Psychologists Suggest

Moral behavior may increase our capacity for willpower and physical endurance, according to new research from Harvard University. Participants in the new study who did good deeds-- or even just imagined themselves helping others-- were better able to perfo ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2010 - 3:52pm

Airport Security Neutralized By Water Bottles

In a study study likely to increase travelers' trust in the TSA, Duke university researchers say identifying a prohibited item such as a water bottle may keep airport security from detecting harder-to-spot items in the same scan. In the new study, pub ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2010 - 3:52pm

Islands of Autism Genius- patch them together for best results and normal life

Perhaps one of the most outstanding sides to autism is the "Islands of Genius" . Weather we are the famous Rain Man type Savant or Einstein or even well hidden fairly normal people that figured out all of autism it is all the same autism. The no ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 21 2010 - 10:49am

Sports Star Role Models? Rubbish, Researchers Say

The suggestion that famous athletes serve as role models for underage fans is "rubbish," say researchers writing in Drug and Alcohol Review. The authors found that the loutish and drunken behavior of some pro athletes – routinely reported in the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2010 - 11:10am