Psychology

When I'm not delving into the science and pseudoscience surrounding autism, I have other areas of interest that I turn my attention to. The psychology of religion is one of those areas of…

The more "macho" the man, the more risks he is likely to take on the road, according to a study by  a psychologist at the University of Montreal. So what is a macho man? In 2004, an American…

One of the worst things I see on the internet, as both a parent of children on the spectrum and as scientifically-based, rational person who works hard to instruct my students in critical thinking…

If you want boost your romantic relationship, and achieve and maintain satisfaction with your partner, show some gratitude. Positive thinking has been shown to have a longstanding constructive effect…

About six weeks ago I wrote the following post on Rapid Prompting Method (edited for this current piece); it garnered a lot of attention from avid parent supporters and from the inventor of the…

“The false and exaggerated claims associated with facilitated communication have been exposed.” (Miles and Simpson, 1996) Facilitated communication is an issue of contention in some…

This is sure to be a post that gets various readers' dander up, and I apologize in advance. We have a ways to go in the scientific disciplines towards nondiscriminatory and nonoffensive language.…

Dr. Raymond Mar, of On Fiction: An Online Magazine on the Psychology of Fiction, published a research bulletin the other day summarizing a psychological study whose results apparently suggest that,…

One of the things that gets bandied about with regular frequency is the proportion of severely impaired individuals on the spectrum and the accompanying rates of ID. I've run across another study…

There's a tremendous amount of research literature that does not make it into public consumption. Coupling this lack of trickle down with a voracious need to feel certainty where none may exist, many…