Psychology

Thinspirational Images On Social Media: Motivation Or Harmful?

America is the fattest developed country on earth and psychologists say that positive images and societal reinforcement make losing weight easier- obese people are more likely to have obese friends and family, the same way alcoholics and drug addicts do. Y ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2015 - 8:46am

Why Gamblers Fail To Beat The Odds

Brian Owens, Inside Science- Habitual gamblers are more likely to believe they see patterns in random sequences of events, and to act on that belief, than the general population, according to new research. ...

Article - Inside Science - May 11 2015 - 8:00am

Fetish: Why Are Some People Turned On By Disability?

The theme of fetishism and disability came up in ribald and raunchy conversation during the Talking Dirty session at the Unlimited festival  held at London’s Southbank Centre in September 2014. ...

Article - Mosaic Science - May 15 2015 - 8:30am

When You Try To Make A Good Impression, It Often Backfires

If you got a recent promotion, or a new car on Facebook, that's good news, and in the idealized vision of social media it should be shared. That is just social media marketing talking. In reality, you have probably become convinced that your hard wor ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2015 - 5:31pm

Decisional Bias As An Implicit Measure Of Moral Judgment

The act of identifying a perpetrator is memory and involves thinking but it also constitutes a moral decision- because by identifying or not identifying someone, an eyewitness runs the risk of either implicating an innocent person or letting a guilty pers ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2015 - 7:44pm

Prosocial Rats Will Save Other Rats From Drowning

In an experiment, rats who saw another rat drowning extended a helping paw to rescue it, and the behavior was even more pronounced in rats that previously had a watery near-death experience.  This prosocial behavior, even if it does not gain any advantage ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2015 - 10:57am

The Dark Side Of Perfectionism

Other-orientated perfectionists are different than the kind who set a difficult standard for themselves; the other-oriented kind sometimes that can veer into narcissism, antisocial behavior and an aggressive sense of humor against others. They care little ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2015 - 7:01am

Afterlife Belief Preserves Hope When Thinking About Death

The prospect of death, and the impact of mortality, is a lot less daunting when there is belief in the afterlife, say psychologists. Dr. Arnaud Wisman and Dr. Nathan Heflick, of the University of Kent School of Psychology set out to establish in four separ ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2015 - 10:20am

Do Flies Know Fear?

When fruit flies respond to the threat of an overhead shadow, is that fear? The response to visual threats includes many essential elements of what we humans call fear and David J. Anderson of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the California Institut ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2015 - 11:56am

Is Flow Theory A Science Basis For Positive Psychology?

What makes us happy? Philosophers, psychologists and scientists have long pondered that question. Psychologists believe they may have a solution that satisfies everyone in flow theory, a model that better preserves the approach to individual distinctivenes ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2015 - 12:00pm