Psychology

Read the following story and then rank Robin, Maid Marion, the sheriff of Nottingham and Little John from most to least moral (I'll post interpretation instructions tomorrow): The sheriff of…

One thing the film industry get right - and they don't get much right, since romantic comedy behavior in real life is likely to get you a restraining order - is that music evokes moods. French…

The terms we use, how we define them, are important things. Often times, we use similar terminology interchangeably. We're discussing nebulously defined disorders (autism and intellectual disability…

So, I try to put it into English what I think about life and mistakenness of current canonical paradigm about a life. There are several points, where the current paradigm is simply wrong. I have made…

Gardiner and Kosmitzki (2008) acknowledge their use of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model as the basis for the coverage of human development from a cultural perspective. It is the first theory that I…

It's unfortunate but true that we tend to fall for all manner of woo, that we do a poor job of weeding out nonsense from sense. People will believe just about any crazy thing,…

In the tragic Huntsville shootings reported in Nature News Feature (Life after Death. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100512/full/465150a.html. Nature 465, 150-155; 2010), Amy Bishop, an Assistant…

Matsumoto and Juang (2008) note that the research done in psychology is “limited to the research that generated them” and the cross-cultural psychology goes beyond typical psychological research in…

No one says, "I am in favor of pollution" but how would anyone know who really cares?   Body language, claims a new book. Professor Geoff Beattie, from The University of Manchester, says…

A CNN headline reads "Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests". Interesting, but wait... The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, followed 78 lesbian couples…