Psychology

Would A Science Barbie Hurt Female Participation In Science?

While Barbie was once as stereotypical as G.I. Joe, in modern years she can 'be anything.' Ken is still kind of annoying, however. Yet to some it is not enough. Barbie must go. You won't be surprised to find that an article in Sex Roles, wh ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2014 - 11:21am

We Just Want To Be Liked: Frequent Facebook Use Linked To Eating Disorder Risk

Frequent Facebook users also share a greater risk of eating disorders, according to a new psychology paper. The small sample used 960 college students (naturally) and determined that more time on Facebook was associated with higher levels of disordered ea ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2014 - 6:30pm

What You're Doing Affects Perception Of Earthquake Intensity More Than Where You're At

While instruments an provide an objective measure of earthquake intensity, the intensity of ground motion is often anecdotal. How accurate and reliable are public perceptions? A new study in Seismological Research Letters suggests that a person's act ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2014 - 8:51am

Clinical Trial: Mindfulness Meditation May Lessen Some Symptoms Of Teens With Cancer

The results of a small clinical trial intervention found that mindfulness-based meditation could lessen some symptoms associated with cancer in teens. Mindfulness-based meditation sounds fuzzy, because it claims to focus on the 'present moment' ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 12:01am

Democrats, Republicans See Each Other As Mindless- Unless They're A Threat

When are members of opposing political parties not simply stupid, uninformed, inhuman hordes lacking in ethics and compassion, or incompetent? When they are in charge. Then they can be creators of a vast conspiracy whose manipulative efforts are everywher ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2017 - 12:42pm

Stressed Out Women Become More Prosocial- Stressed Men Hunker Down

We all feel stressed but a new paper finds that how we deal with it is different- even in as broad a category as men and women. Stressed women apparently become more "prosocial".  ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2014 - 10:51am

A New Kind Of Reward Teaches Intrinsic Motivation

I would like for my son, Leif, to play the violin. I’m a serious ex music geek and so in addition to pegging me as an abhorrent tiger parent intent on thrusting my offspring into the one-percent where they can be hedge fund managers and own things like fu ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 19 2014 - 10:12am

Most People Trust Computers More Than Their Business Partners

Trust is an essential basis for business relationships but it can be easily shaken if one business partner exhibits dishonest behavior.  And so a subconscious strategy to help avoid the negative emotions associated with any breaches of trust may cause som ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 1:55pm

Why Russia Is Laughing At Sanctions

This week, the people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted to join Russia. They were jubilant, the Russian people were prideful, and Europe and the United States acted like it was the start of a World War. President Obama levied sanctions on President Vladimir P ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 11:06am

Forget The 47 Percent On Each Side, Swing Voters Hold More Sway Over Candidates

In the 2012 election campaign, Mitt Romney was vilified for saying something everyone knew to be true and extrapolating motivation from it- that each party was going to get 47 percent of the vote no matter what and that dictated economic policy. Only 3 pe ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 1:49pm