Psychology

Framing: How Media Shape The News

If you have a large picture and you want people to focus on certain aspects of it, you frame it in such a way the eyes are drawn to it.  It's no different in media. Though journalists try to be objective each news outlet has self-selection bias, deter ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 8:26am

Bystander Effect Debunked- In 91% Of Real World Cases Someone Helps

Bystander apathy is a social psychological construct where it is believed that someone who sees a victim is less likely to offer help when other people are present. They say it is proportional to the number of bystanders, the more people around not helping ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2019 - 10:34am

Doctors, Don't Be Shy About Selfies From Patients- They Do A Lot Of Good

Doctors, like scientists, often aren't big on putting themselves into stories and getting selfies with patients, or even accepting pictures as part of care. But selfies are a part of modern culture, and that means they are empowering to patients, so a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2019 - 11:25am

53 Percent Of Survey Respondents Have Had Out Of Body Experiences

At the recent Academy of Neurology Congress, scholars reported that among 1,034 people recruited from 35 countries via an online crowdsourcing platform asked if they'd ever had an Near Death Experience, 289 answered 'yes.' When were asked f ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2019 - 4:37pm

Fake News, Or Just Bias Different From Our Own?

The underlying central metaphor of the new Marvel film "Spider-Man: Far From Home" is that news shouldn't be trusted. Many agree, but whether or not people label it "fake" seems to be based on how different their own bias is. If yo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2019 - 2:18pm

Psychological Impact Of Genetic Testing- Like All Psychology, It Depends

Population level metrics such as Body Mass Index (BMI) or statistical correlation using epidemiology don't do much to inform individual experience, and psychology faces the same issue. Surveys can tell us whatever surveys can tell us about what a part ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 8 2019 - 2:04pm

Music May Be Able To Replace Anxiety Medication Before Anesthesia

There is no substitute for medication; not food, not meditation, not music, not supplements, not anything, except in instances where the issue is not medical. And for some, anxiety is a non-specific symptom for a disease they don't have, it is just co ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2019 - 9:11am

White Cops Aren't More Likely To Kill Minority Suspects Than Black Or Hispanic Officers

There is a belief that white police officers are trigger happy when it comes to minority crime suspects but analysis of shootings in the comprehensive database of fatal officer-involved shootings (FOIS) shows that is not true. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2019 - 8:13am

Depressed During Pregnancy In Pennsylvania? Coastal Epidemiologists Will Blame Natural Gas For You

A new paper has statistically linked depression and anxiety during pregnancy (and link preterm births due to those) to the radius of natural gas hydraulic fracturing wells in Pennsylvania. Should you be worried? The short answer is "no", this is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 12 2019 - 9:17am

Compensatory Strategies Like Social Integration May Delay Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis

Compensatory strategies for kids with autism spectrum disorders, an adaptive process whereby new behaviors are generated in order to avoid negative outcomes, do have positive outcomes, like increased social integration, but can result in a barrier to diagn ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2019 - 5:16pm