Psychology

A Guilty Complex Is Actually A Good Trait In An Employee

People who don't want to disappoint you and that are prone to guilt if things go wrong are the least likely to want to commit to a project- but they may be who you want on your team, because if they do commit, that propensity for feeling guilty if th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2015 - 1:25pm

Many People Use Drugs: Here’s Why Most Don’t Become Addicts

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Article - The Conversation - Jan 6 2015 - 11:48am

Let It Out: Anger Correlated To Better Health

In the Western world- well, outside Italy- people are told to reduce their anger or suffer its ill effects, such as stress, but new research using surveys from the US and Japan suggests that anger may actually be linked with better health.  Displays of ang ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 11:52am

Morality Might Seem Boring – But It Takes Imagination To Live A Moral Life

The way we relate to other people shapes our moral life – and that's something that requires imagination. David Galindo/Flickr By Matthew Beard, University of Notre Dame Australia Creativity and imagination- it’s impossible to discuss one without ref ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 7 2015 - 7:54pm

Stanley Milgram's 'Dark Side' Experiments Show How To Keep Atrocities From Happening

As World War II ended and the Holocaust became shockingly more real than the rumor or propaganda some believed it was, people wondered how it could happen. Why, somewhere along the way, did not more Germans involved in the genocide object? The same was ask ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2015 - 4:42pm

What Your Online Avatar Says About Your Personality

Can your online avatar say something about your personality that you haven't carefully chosen to be your public representation? It might say that some people are cats, or, since 85 percent of the female avatars of massively multiplayer online games ar ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2015 - 5:59pm

Lavender- The Fragrance Of Trust

Long before oxytocin was the miracle spray that could make people feel more trusting, our ancestors used lavender. Unsurprisingly, it still works today, according to a new psychology paper. Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie member psychologists Rober ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 11:55am

Essentialism In Kids: Bilingualism Changes Beliefs

Most young children are essentialists, they believe that human and animal characteristics are innate, so traits like native language and clothing preference are intrinsic rather than acquired. It is a natural law that other kids should speak the same langu ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2015 - 1:17pm

Bisexual Women Have Worse Mental Health Than Lesbians

Bisexual women are more likely to experience poor mental health and mental distress than lesbians, according to new data gleaned from the 2007 Stonewall UK Women's Health Survey. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene&Tropical Medicine anal ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2015 - 9:30am

Letting People Simulate Blindness Actually Worsens Attitudes Toward Blindness

Using simulation, such as wearing a blindfold while performing everyday tasks, has negative effects on people's perceptions of the visually impaired, according to a recent paper. In one part of the study, after simulating blindness by having their ey ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 12:24pm