Psychology

We Want To Believe: 86% Of Shoppers Make Buying Decisions Based On Sustainability

Industry Intelligence Inc., formerly ForestWeb, does surveys-for-hire in a number of industries, covering everything from food to paper to packaging.  Their 2012 EcoFocus trend survey addressed what makes the 'eco-friendly shopper' tick and concl ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 21 2012 - 9:06pm

Color Of The Cup Enhances The Taste Of Hot Chocolate, Say Psychologists

Experiments psychologists from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Oxford say that the color of the cup matters in the flavor of hot chocolate- it tastes better in an orange or cream colored plastic cup than in a white or red one. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2013 - 11:49am

What Creativty And Racial Stereotypes Have In Common

New research suggests that racial stereotypes and creativity have more in common than we might think. In an article published in Psychological Science, psychologists find that racial stereotyping and creative stagnation share a common mechanism: categoric ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2013 - 2:49pm

Emotions, Not Diet And Exercise, Top Obstacle To Successful Weight Loss, Say Psychologists

Doctors and scientists will rightly note that, in every study ever done on weight loss, 100% of participants who consumed fewer calories than they burned lost weight. Exercise helps in multiple ways, but in weight loss it helps burn the calories. A survey ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2013 - 11:26am

We Trust Brown Eyed People More Than Blue- Except...

People view brown-eyed faces as more trustworthy than those with blue eyes- unless the blue eyes belong to a man with a broad face, according to a new paper in PLOS ONE.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2013 - 6:30am

New Year's Resolutions: Food Will Fail Before Facebook

January 10th came and went last week. Did you notice? Perhaps you did if losing weight was part of your New Year's Resolution. Because chances are that by day 10 you were off the wagon. What could you give up for the entire year?  New survey results s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2013 - 2:07pm

Why People Sometimes Believe In Magic

Some people believe in magic. In S cience Left Behind, in the process of debunking claims that one American political party is overwhelmingly pro-science and one is anti-science,  we put a handy chart on page 213 itemizing the various anti-science position ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 25 2013 - 11:01am

Spanish Men Want Spanish Women To Be Thin More Than Spanish Women Do

While the cultural debate of nationalized health care is whether or not to let obese people and smokers die(1), a new paper in Spain says males are pressuring women to be thin and it is making females less happy. The psychologists also contend that women ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2015 - 11:52pm

Why Eastern Babies Are Potty-Trained Much Earlier Than Western

With greater wealth comes lesser need to worry about costs like diapers, it seems. Or Western parents don't know how to whistle. In the western world, babies now need diapers until an average of three years of age, nearly twice as long as 40 years ag ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2013 - 1:00pm

Coffee Addiction: Four A Day- Enemas, That Is

You might be a crackpot if you won't drink coffee because it is bad for your health, yet you are shoving it in your rectum multiple times per day.  "My Strange Addiction" on TLC this week has a story about a Florida couple who each have at l ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2013 - 3:22pm