Psychology

Obesity Psychology: Teens Who Lose Weight At Greater Risk For Anorexia And Bulimia

Obese teenagers who lose weight are at greater risk of developing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, a sign that there may be a psychology issue regarding their relationship to food. But because weight loss is a healthy positive ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2013 - 10:49am

Reminiscence Bumps: Music Makes Autobiographical Memories For Young People

Music makes people nostalgic, it has long been said that music can bring us back to specific points in time.  Young adults surveyed recently are even fond of and have an emotional connection to the music that was popular for their parents' generation ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2013 - 9:56am

These Children Considered Autistic May Be Misdiagnosed

One subset of children frequently believed to have autism may be misdiagnosed because some of the social impairments associated with their developmental delay looks like features of autism, according to a new paper.  The children have a genetic disorder c ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2013 - 6:54am

Empathy In Psychopaths: A Neurological Basis?

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow affect, glibness, manipulation and callousness. Though less than one percent of the general population meet the criteria, the rate of psychopathy in prisons is a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2013 - 4:46pm

Oxytocin Could Make You More Tolerant

Oxytocin, colloquially called the 'love hormone' because of its correlation to mother-infant attachment and romantic bonding in adults, could also make us more accepting of other people, according to a new psychology paper.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2013 - 1:28pm

Poor Sleep Linked To Autism And Behavior

Disrupted sleep patterns have been linked to autism but the quality of the evidence accumulated to date has often been compromised by small sample size, lack of agreed definitions, and poor comparability of study participants. Some data also suggest that ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2013 - 6:00am

Baseball Players Take Note: Knocking On Wood Actually Can Undo Jinx

Knocking on wood is a common superstition in Western culture, mostly used to prevent bad luck after talking about good fortune, but sometimes to reverse bad fortune or undo a "jinx." Other cultures maintain similar practices, like spitting or th ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2013 - 4:32pm

How Instagram Ruined Dinner

If you want to enjoy your food, stop taking pictures of it and putting them on the Internet, say marketing scholars. They mean you, foodies on Instagram and Pinterest. It could be ruining your appetite by making you feel like you've already experienc ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2013 - 5:00pm

Read Minds By Reading Fiction, Say Social Psychologists

There's little quantifiable value to arts and literature but they hold a great deal more prestige in culture than science does. If you attend a Manhattan dinner party and are unfamiliar with some obscure performance artist, they will be horrified- bu ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 10:22am

Is Food Addiction A Real Thing?

In a world of over-diagnosis, virtually anything can be considered a mental disorder if you are willing to pay someone to give you therapy for it. Afraid of attractive women? You have Venustraphobia. Afraid of GMO foods? The name is in the works.  Body pi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2013 - 9:52am