Psychology

Did Sen. Barack Obama buy the election of 2008, given that he bypassed public financing and so was able to raise and spend twice as much money as Sen. John McCain?  In 2012, the concern is the…

Here is a diet plan that requires no special meal purchases or even exercise, it just requires a willingness to believe that correlation-causation arrows fly backwards.  People, especially women…

Dr. Brian Wansink, professor of marketing  and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, has tackled weighty issues such as what the paintings of "The Last Supper" can tell us about their…

For every "treatment" or remediation in autism-land, there are both fervent believers and detractors. For every person helped, there's another harmed. Perhaps, just perhaps, in some cases, it's not…

Spend too much time on Facebook?  Can't get enough LOLcat videos? You no longer need to be ashamed.  You may have a disease. Psychologists interviewed a total of 843 people about their…

Danish veterinarians are a little squeamish about working on dead animals - instead of encouraging them to find other careers, the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen is…

Modern culture is always trying to find new ways to catch bad guys more scientifically but as psychology has fallen in credibility, so has one of its more successful methods; profiling. It isn't a…

A sociology paper claims that binge-drinking college students are having a much better time in school than their non-binge-drinking counterparts. Binge drinking may be popular on campuses not simply…

Urban legend says that alcohol is a social icebreaker - and we want to believe, given our preference for commercials where impossibly attractive young people converge on some beach and all have a…

Most people claim they don't make judgments about people based on appearance, and most people who say that are lying.  'First impressions' became a term for a reason. Everyone knows appearance…