Psychology

Teenage Girls: Obesity And Depression Linked

A new psychology paper research finds that adolescent females who are either obese or depressed are more likely to develop the other. By assessing a statewide sample of more than 1,500 males and females in Minnesota over a period of more than 10 years, th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2014 - 10:46am

Being A Fair Boss May Be A No-Win Situation

Bosses who are most conscientious about the fairness of workplace decisions make their workers happier and their companies more productive, but they may be burning themselves out. A new paper found the act of carefully monitoring the fairness of workplace ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2014 - 9:41am

Why Calvin's Dad Rocks At Explaining Science To Children

Gary Larson tapped into the universal absurd. Charles Schulz helped us identify with the underdog in us all. And Bill Watterson accurately represented a father’s profound and boundless knowledge of the universe, as in Calvin’s dad’s explanation that ice f ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 26 2014 - 1:43pm

The Psychology Of Why You Want To Know The Plot Of Star Wars VII

You want to know what movies are about- and that is why spoilers related to the upcoming "Star Wars" movie and "Avengers 2" and whatever else are so popular. Hey, you knew how the RMS Titanic met its demise, and you still watched a movi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 26 2014 - 12:35pm

Lawyers Know This: Emotional Testimony By Kids Is Perceived As More Credible

In a psychology experiment, two young actors (one girl and one boy) portrayed victims in a mock-police investigation. They were questioned by the police about how they had been harassed by older schoolmates. The police interviews were videotaped in two ve ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 1:31pm

Unsurprisingly, Kids Are Not Interested In Healthy Kid Meals

Fast food giants are happy to promote healthy menus- they are in the revenue generation business, they will sell what people want to buy. Yet food activists and government officials seem to lack basic insight into what kids want, whereas marketing will ma ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 9:08pm

A new sociology paper finds that bullying does not just occur among social outcasts. It happens to popular kids too, and the impact may be magnified even more. Popular kids could suffer more from a single act of social aggression. In a study of students a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 11:57am

On Surveys, Customers Prefer Restaurants That Offer Health Food

When people go out to restaurants, they don't care about eating healthy. Great chefs know the secret to food people want is unreal levels of butter. Fast food restaurants have been convinced to spend tens of millions of dollars marketing healthy choi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 10:43am

Oxytocin Promotes Group Lying

Oxytocin, the love hormone, is correlated to everything from maternal attachment to sexual addiction. Now it has been implicated in lying. Oxytocin is a hormone the body naturally produces to stimulate bonding and psychologists from Ben-Gurion University ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 2:36pm

Attachment Research Says It's Okay To Throw Pine Cones At Your Kids

I was at the park the other day throwing pinecones at my kids when a horrified mother asked, “How can you hit your kids with pinecones!” I said it was pretty easy: you just don’t lead them as much. First, this is important because my brain is almost compl ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Apr 2 2014 - 7:29am