Psychology
- Both Idealism And Religious Extremism Can Result From Anxiety
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Are you a bold personality? High self-esteem, action-oriented, eager, tenacious? If so, you are more likely to be a religious extremist when anxiety occurs, according to findings by York University researchers in this month's Journal of Personality ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2010 - 1:29pm
- Word Association Can Predict Your Next Break Up, Says Study
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Using an implicit task, researchers monitored how people automatically responded to words – in this case, whether they find it easier to link words referring to their partner to words with pleasant or unpleasant meanings- and this told them how likely coup ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2010 - 7:44pm
- Ruminations on the Judge Rotenberg Center
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Kathleen and I have been spending a fa ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jul 8 2010 - 10:11pm
- Stop The Madness- Female Shopping Is Evolution And The Mall Is The Lab?
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I just noticed a study from a few months back that correlated male shopping habits to... evolution. Yes, the necessary survival skills that women used for foraging and men used to hunt evolved into the inability of men to match socks and the reason women ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 11 2010 - 2:14pm
- Superstition Validated? Only When It Works
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Superstition may work if you think it works. If only voodoo were so easy, we'd love to have an army of zombies at our command. But people, and certainly athletes, maintain any number of superstitious rituals, so Lysann Damisch, Barbara Stoberock and ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2010 - 5:52pm
- Sex Makes You Smarter- Can 'Virtual Sex' Do The Same?
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It has been known for quite some time that exercise promotes neurogenesis, but now a study by Leuner, Glasper, and Gould, published by PLoS ONE this month, claims that the most intimate form of exercise- sexual activity- can produce the same effects. And ...
Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Jul 27 2010 - 10:58pm
- When Parents Kill: Filicide Usually Accompanied by mental illness
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Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jul 22 2010 - 7:43pm
- The Evolutionary Illogic Of Crime, Punishment, And Attention
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The attention we give to (or withhold from) tragedies has little to do with numbers: many hundreds can die in a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe or hundreds of thousands in an earthquake in China and it receives nowhere near the press and public outrage as n ...
Article - Garth Sundem - Jul 30 2010 - 12:30am
- The Logic Of Illogical Optimism
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I was on the phone the other night with a friend. She is in a bit of bind. Every conversation we’ve had recently, we’ve been doing the same thing. We analyze every minutiae of her situation, as women are wont to, and come to the same conclusion. Things ar ...
Article - Asha John - Jul 30 2010 - 10:49am
- The Science Of Pleasure: Part One- The Allure Of Asymmetry
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What happens in your brain when you experience pleasure? Why are fantasies so powerful? Why do our brains love dopamine so much? Why do some images arouse, while others turn us off? Why are the most attractive people often not the ones we are most drawn to ...
Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Jul 30 2010 - 8:20am
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