Psychology

Be A Sexy Jerk: Nice Guys Finish Last In Reproduction Too

Females like the bad boys when they are young, we all know that colloquially- and even more so when they are ovulating, say a group of social and evolutionary psychologists. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 16 2012 - 8:56am

RIP Don Ritchie 'the Angel of the Gap' Where One Young Woman Survived her Suicidal Leap but Many More Die

Don Ritchie  earned the title of ‘ the Angel of the Gap ’ for his tireless attempts over the last 45 years, to dissuade people from jumping to their death from the high cliffs known as 'the Gap' at Watsons Bay, but mostly from Gap Park opposite ...

Blog Post - Helen Barratt - May 21 2012 - 12:35pm

Meat And Masculinity: Vegetarians Have An Uphill Perception Battle

Men are generally more reluctant to try vegetarian products and a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says that is influenced by a strong association of meat with masculinity.   "We examined whether people in Western cultures have a metaphor ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2012 - 3:33pm

Internet Study: Americans Too Trusting, Spanish Too Superficial And Germans Are Annoyed

MELBOURNE, Australia, June 13-- In what is being billed as the world's largest international study of online consumer behavior, involving over 36,000 users (though that sounds low- we could easily get more than 36,000 respondents to a survey today), ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2012 - 10:20am

Good Luck Cutting Through Someone Else's Cognitive Dissonance- You Might As Well Be Compassionate

I was looking through the feeds on the autism blogs  directory, as I do everyday, and reading the various thumbnails, clicking through on those blog posts that I thought would be helpful to read, and I was struck again by the diversity of bloggers--the var ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 18 2012 - 5:06pm

Not Being Racist Hurts Diversity, Say Psychologists

Should there be racial quotas in university admissions?  In jobs? What about gender quotas or political ones? America has more equality than any country in the world and so many organizations and institutions have elected to further relegate racial issues ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2012 - 11:00am

Statistically "Highly Unlikely"- Social Psychologist Dirk Smeesters Resigns

Erasmus University Rotterdam has announced that  Dirk Smeesters, Professor of Consumer and Society at Rotterdam School of Management, has had two papers withdrawn  after a report from the Inquiry Committee on Scientific Integrity looked into suspicions tha ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 26 2012 - 8:00am

Can Wikipedia Teach Us About Conflict Resolution?

Wikipedia's user-generated content has made it the world's largest, and most derided, encyclopedia. Part of the openness model has also led to 'edit wars' when the anonymous "editors" disagree with each other. The dynamics of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2012 - 7:19pm

Autism Diagnostic Scales: Sometimes A Number Is Just A Number

While browsing facebook, I ran across a friend's posting of a link to a diagnostic test for autism and Asperger's that I hadn't run across before,The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R). According to the abstract, ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jun 26 2012 - 10:26am

Figuring Out The Mind Of The Psychopath- Or Not

Are psychopaths made in a certain way and unable to change? Perhaps, says Aina Gullhaugen, a psychologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, but there is a discrepancy between the formal characteristics of psychopathy and what she has e ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2012 - 8:51pm