Psychology

Osteopathic Manipulation: A Possible Treatment For A Subjective Condition

Osteopaths have made their way into various aspects of medicine, primarily because they are still willing to be GPs at a time when MDs are running from government bureaucracy and paperwork, but their founding precepts are still vague. And if you want vague ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2016 - 9:47am

The Editors Music Makes Beer Taste Better

Music can influence how much you like the taste of beer, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology. Their findings suggest that a range of multisensory information, such as sound, sensation, shape and color, can influence the way we percei ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2016 - 9:23am

Netflix And Less Chill: Millennials Aren't The 'Hookup Generation', Say Survey Results

The biggest misconception young people have about the 1960s is that they actually happened in the 1970s. The real free love/drug culture only began in the summer of 1968- the decade after, before AIDS, was really the time to hook up. Yet many think it is ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2016 - 9:19am

Is Trump Or Clinton Really That Bad? Partisan Media Can Influence Viewers To Reject Facts

Heavy users of partisan media outlets are more likely than others to hold political misperceptions that are in defiance of facts. So if you think Republicans blocked Zika funding by withholding money for Planned Parenthood, or that Hillary Clinton is havi ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2016 - 10:37am

Do Dogs Prefer Praise Or Food?

Pavlov's famous behavioral experiment involved a dog. Dogs want food. Maybe not so clear, according to a paper in  Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Given the choice, many dogs prefer praise from their owners over food, suggests the work, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2016 - 7:30am

Pessimism About Claim That People Are Over-Optimistic About The Future

In the United States, there used to be a belief that the next generation would always have it better. No more. A lingering economic malaise and non-stop apocalyptic jingo-ism about chemicals, food, medicine and the environment instead have young people su ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2016 - 7:01am

Gender Determines Views On Division Of Chores

Wealthy elites try to portray traditional values as something held by poor people, but a new sociology paper contends it is based on gender, not wealth or education. And that's why women are more likely to shoulder the bulk of housekeeping and childh ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2016 - 5:45am

Are Hurricanes Worse Than Decades Ago? Gender And Politics Impact What People Believe

In the last decade, hurricanes have been essentially inconsequential. Sandy was so mild by the time it hit New York City that Manhattan media had to invent the term "Super Storm" to talk about it, because tropical storm sounded too nice. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2016 - 11:33am

Free Market Validation: Men With Hair Transplants Are Seen As Younger, More Attractive

Does how much hair a man has matter in how he is perceived? A gigantic cosmetic surgery industry say it's true. What we unclear was how much was objectively true versus how much it was just a confidence-builder. If a man was self-conscious about bein ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2016 - 8:01am

Friendships And Vaccines

Do anti-vaccine people hang around with anti-vaccine people or did hanging around with them cause them to lose faith in science? There are an alarming number of factors that all correlate with anti-vaccine sentiment; the types of food purchased, beliefs a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2016 - 9:07pm