Psychology

A Past That Never Was: Implanted Abuse Memories Still Cause Damage Today

When 21-year-old nurse Carol Felstead went to her doctor complaining of repeated headaches, she wasn’t just prescribed painkillers. Instead, she was referred for psychotherapy that would ultimately involve hypnosis to “recover” so-called repressed memorie ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 13 2015 - 2:54pm

Stay Poor? Upward Mobility Is Bad For Your Health

Youth from low-income families who succeed academically and socially may actually pay a price when it comes to their health, because relentlessly pursuing goals can undermine health. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2015 - 3:22pm

Misunderstood Or Fraud? Why Doctors Should Never Recommend Homeopathy

Should doctors recommend homeopathy? Sometimes placebos work, that is why placebo has an Effect named after it and, because they are inert, they can't do any harm. But when patients or taxpayers are coughing up money for it, the issue is more murky. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 11:01am

Health Care Providers Have Sexual Orientation Biases

In what they say is the first study that looks at a variety of healthcare providers and their implicit attitudes towards lesbian women and gay men, scholars say they have found there is widespread implicit bias toward lesbian women and gay men.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2015 - 9:00am

Selfishness Lasts A Lifetime

Researchers studying wild banded mongooses in Uganda have discovered that these small mammals have either cooperative or selfish personalities which last for their entire lifetime. The researchers investigated the selfish behavior of mongoose mate-guardin ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2015 - 4:41pm

Teens With Medical Marijuana Cards Much Likelier To Say They're Addicted

A new University of Michigan study finds that teens using marijuana for medical reasons are 10 times more likely to say they are hooked on marijuana than youth who get marijuana illegally. The study is the first to report on a nationally representative sa ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2015 - 8:00am

The Argument For Psychiatric Over-Diagnosis: Outcomes Are More Important Than Accuracy

In America there has been yet another shooting and the common denominator has been the presence of psychiatric medication. Clearly better diagnosis of people is not what is needed, better outcomes are. Medications are wildly over-prescribed and they don&# ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2015 - 10:30am

Want To Quit Smoking? Strengthen Your Self-Control

The desire to quit smoking--often considered a requirement for enrolling in treatment programs--is not always necessary to reduce cigarette cravings, argues a review of addiction research. Early evidence suggests that exercises aimed at increasing self-co ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2015 - 7:30am

Your Fear Of Radiation Is Irrational

Bad Gastein in the Austrian Alps. It’s 10 am on a Wednesday in early March, cold and snowy – but not in the entrance to the main gallery of what was once a gold mine. Togged out in swimming trunks, flip-flops and a bath robe, I have just squeezed into one ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Jun 18 2019 - 12:17pm

How Not To Convince Vaccine Skeptics

Many people who are skeptical about vaccinating their children can be convinced to do so, but only if the argument is presented in a certain way, a team of psychologists from UCLA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported today. The rese ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 8:00am