Psychology

Oh No You Didn't: Emotional Regulation And The Online Community

We've all done it: we've blurted out something we wish we'd bitten back. We've made a face or indicated our displeasure or contempt when it would have been better to maintain the appearance of neutrality. We've all, I'm sure, ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Dec 9 2010 - 1:35pm

Hyman's Anecdotal Healings: Now The Autism

Mark Hyman loves the case study; when  one of his posts  at Huffington Post deals with an almost magical healing he's engendered, well, chances are, there's gonna be a kid involved. This time up, it's Hyman curing autism cuz he's teh ma ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Dec 16 2010 - 7:22pm

Metaphors, Iconicity And Sign Language

Some metaphors are difficult to explain- if you have a child and use one and get asked what it means, and then get asked what the definition means, you know what we...mean...see how hard it can be to communicate? They're even more difficult in sign la ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2010 - 10:26am

Violent Video Games Not A Cause Of Aggession In Kids- Study

Depression in young people strongly predicts how aggressive and violent they may be or may become, but exposure to violence in video games or on television is not related to serious acts of youth aggression or violence, at least among Hispanics in the U.S. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2010 - 2:30pm

The Happiness–Income Paradox For Christmas: Wealthier Nations Not Getting Happier?

Humans are essentially unsatisfied creatures- if you take a starving dog out of the rain and feed him, he will love you forever.   After a few weeks of nice treatment, many humans will decide they deserved to be taken out of the rain and maybe even that th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2010 - 11:16pm

Inherent Intelligence: How widespread is it?

Suppose you want to measure how inherent intelligence is distributed amongst the population.  That is to say, you want to get a sense for how many are born with the potential to be very smart, and how many are not, and what the capabilities of each are.  ...

Blog Post - J.R. van Meter - Dec 15 2010 - 1:47am

In Love With Your Stuff? Maybe

If you were around in the early days of the iPhone, you may have thought users were in love with it.   Proponents spoke of it in romantic terms and looked for reasons to discuss it, with questions like, "So what kind of phone do you have?" It tur ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2010 - 12:16pm

The Codex: speech, gesturing, and weight

I’ve been having a peek at the Science Codex, and come across this cluster of articles. Gesturing while talking helps change your thoughts New research says words, gestures translated by same brain regions 2 sides of the same coin: Speech and gesture mutu ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jan 5 2011 - 1:58pm

Sorry sociologists, Arizona shooter Jared Loughner did not watch Fox News

Sociologists love when people get shot; it gives them a chance to make correlation/causation arrows go in all kinds of crazy directions. So when people jumped on the gun rage by  Jared Loughner as a product of the Tea Party or a climate of hate or whatever ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 12 2011 - 3:18pm

Tough Or Tender: Masculinity, Feminity And Our Sense Of Touch

Stereotypes exist for a reason.  They give us a comfortable idea of what we are dealing with, based on experience or at least perception.    Gender stereotypes suggest that men are usually tough and women are usually tender but it turns out stereotypes may ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2011 - 8:29pm