Psychology

Sunshine And Suicide Connected

A pop song goes that rainy days and Mondays bring people down. There was always some truth to that and a new paper in JAMA quantifies the link between a lack of sunshine and suicide. The authors found that lower rates of suicide are associated with more d ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 5:04pm

Fat Shaming And Discrimination Don't Lead To Weight Loss

In the UK, where health care is paid for by the government, and in the United States, where health care is increasingly government controlled, fat shaming has become the norm. Since everyone will have to pay for health care, and obese people are more like ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 11:01am

Which Patients Are Most Likely To Delay Hospice Enrollment?

Almost 20 percent cancer patients wait to enroll in Hospice until their last three days of life.  Their courage and determination is admirable, Hospice is palliative care, but it shortchanges both patients and their families and a new paper seeks to creat ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 5:01pm

Why Would Kidney Failure Patients Not Want A Transplant?

Concerns about kidney transplantation are very high among kidney failure patients, particularly older adults and women, but why? There are thousands of patients with kidney failure who lack access to kidney transplantation, and disparities persist in term ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 7:30am

When Determining Risk Tolerance, Gray Matter Matters

There is a link between our brain structure and our tolerance of risk, find economists who say they have found the first stable 'biomarker' for financial risk-attitudes. Does that mean there is a causal link between brain structure and behavior? ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2014 - 10:30am

In Psychopaths, The Line Between Fantasy And Reality Is Thin

A new paper indicates that people with psychopathic traits have a preference for non-romantic sexual fantasies with anonymous and uncommitted partners. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 8:00pm

You're Attracted To Body Odor Of Those With Similar Political Beliefs

For the last decade, political science has been engaged in an effort to make all political behavior a function of biology, much the same way evolutionary psychologists make everything about sex.  A new paper goes beyond suspect fMRI imaging interpretation ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 7:18pm

Artworks Are People Too?

Not all objects are equal in our minds. A Picasso sculpture is not the same way as a hammer, no matter how fancy the hammer.  The reason? We see the Picasso more as a person than an object, according to a new paper from the University of Chicago Booth Sch ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 3:24pm

Yoga Is Not A Treatment For Bipolar Disorder

One way to know there will be no science at a nutrition conference is to find a yogic flying instructor on the panel roste r. Yoga has a variety of mental and physical health benefits, just like all exercise and sports do, but it is not going to cure bipo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 9:04am

Theory Of Externalities, And Why We’ve Come To Hate Tech Companies

Google buses yuppifying San Francisco. Facebook creepily profiling us. iCloud giving up our pubes to hacker paparazzi. We poured our faith and money into these companies, and now we feel like jilted lovers. Apple once made “the computer for the rest of us ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Sep 18 2014 - 12:27pm