Psychology
- Why Calvin's Dad Rocks At Explaining Science To Children
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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
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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
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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
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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
- Bullying: Popular Kids Impacted Most
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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
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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
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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
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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
- From Norway To America, Why Are Young Men Committing Mass Killings?
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Recent mass killings in Norway, America and in numerous countries have happened at locations as different as schools, movie theaters, and marathons. Though the actual number of mass killings has not changed in 30 years, they get a lot more attention now. ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 10:42am
- Women Won't Apply If A Job Sounds Too Male
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There are various efforts to try and spur more equality among genders in certain fields. Companies say they don't care about gender- and they don't, unless government forces them to hire people to fill in boxes on government forms. They say t ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 10:04am