Psychology

Marital Interdependence Persists Even After The Death Of One Spouse

There is a common perception that as people spend more time together, they begin to act and think more alike. They may even look more alike.  This synchrony, or interdependence, between a couple posits that a married person's cognitive functioning or ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 2:38pm

Seduced By The Promise Of Food Labels

Have you ever been to the supermarket and chosen foods based on nutrition labels?  Have you ever assumed a fat-laden, high-calorie coffee drink must be healthier because a barista claims the milk does not contain something science-sounding like rBST? Labe ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2016 - 7:30am

E-Cigarette Ads Don't Make Tobacco Smoking More Attractive To Kids

The Centers for Disease Control recently released survey results from kids showing that many of them had seen some form of advertisement for e-cigarettes. Then they matched them to the uptick in e-cigarette use among young people and implied causation. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2016 - 7:36am

Transparency: Why Organic Groups Shouldn't Block Accurate Food Labels

Take a look at any food label and there's a good chance all design elements, from the color palette to the smallest detail, were meticulously chosen. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2016 - 10:09am

Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle Fail- Messages From The Food Police Backfire

Marion Nestle, Vani Hari, Michael Pollan; we have all seen messages from self-appointed "food police" telling us that sugary snacks are bad, GMOs are bad, everything except organic vegetables (they seem to believe those have no pesticides or gen ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2016 - 7:31am

Good Boss? Bad Boss? Won't Matter, Employees Will Leave For Money

When employees leave a company, there is always an undercurrent of doubt that they might have stayed if they had a good manager. But plenty of well-liked managers lose employees too.  People leave for more money and/or a promotion most of the time, and le ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2016 - 2:35pm

Media Can Skew Attitudes

Why do people on the left think American media is right wing? Because journalists are paid by corporations funded by other corporations? Why do people on the left think journalism is right wing? Because journalists go into the field to make a difference r ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2016 - 7:57am

Argument: Schizophrenia Does Not Exist

The term "schizophrenia," with its connotation of hopeless chronic brain disease, should be dropped and replaced with something like "psychosis spectrum syndrome," argues Professor Jim van Os at Maastricht University Medical Centre in ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2016 - 8:30am

Effectiveness Of Phone And Web-Based Smoking Cessation Programs In Four States

A new analysis indicates that states’ Web-based and phone-based tobacco cessation programs can help people quit smoking, but certain personal characteristics may lead individuals to prefer one type of program over the other.  Quitline (telephone-based coun ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2016 - 11:00am

Native Americans Aren't More Prone To Alcoholism

Sociology scholars say the stereotype that Native Americans are genetically or psychologically predisposed to alcoholism are all smoke and no firewater.  Instead, Native Americans were more likely to abstain from alcohol use than Caucasian Americans and t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2016 - 11:00am