Psychology

Are psychopaths made in a certain way and unable to change? Perhaps, says Aina Gullhaugen, a psychologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, but there is a discrepancy between the…

While browsing facebook, I ran across a friend's posting of a link to a diagnostic test for autism and Asperger's that I hadn't run across before,The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (…

Erasmus University Rotterdam has announced that Dirk Smeesters, Professor of Consumer and Society at Rotterdam School of Management, has had two papers withdrawn after a report from the…

Wikipedia's user-generated content has made it the world's largest, and most derided, encyclopedia. Part of the openness model has also led to 'edit wars' when the anonymous "editors" disagree with…

Should there be racial quotas in university admissions?  In jobs? What about gender quotas or political ones? America has more equality than any country in the world and so many organizations…

I was looking through the feeds on the autism blogs directory, as I do everyday, and reading the various thumbnails, clicking through on those blog posts that I thought would be helpful to read…

MELBOURNE, Australia, June 13 -- In what is being billed as the world's largest international study of online consumer behavior, involving over 36,000 users (though that sounds low - we could easily…

Men are generally more reluctant to try vegetarian products and a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says that is influenced by a strong association of meat with masculinity. "We…

Don Ritchie earned the title of ‘the Angel of the Gap’ for his tireless attempts over the last 45 years, to dissuade people from jumping to their death from the high cliffs known as 'the Gap' at…

Females like the bad boys when they are young, we all know that colloquially - and even more so when they are ovulating, say a group of social and evolutionary psychologists. It's social psychology…