Psychology

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that  Dirk Smeesters, Professor of Consumer and Society at Rotterdam School of Management, has had two papers withdrawn  after a report from the Inquiry Committee on Scientific Integrity looked into suspicions tha ...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

Love Thy Neighbor Applies, Even When There's Money At Stake

Most people do not want war in their backyard.  In geopolitics, people claim to love their neighbor but they still prepare to fight; Switzerland, the home of neutrality, still has hundreds of forts built into their mountains and young men are required to o ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 15 2012 - 3:07pm

A Biologist And A Psychologist Square Off Over The Definition Of Science

Is psychology a science?   Increasingly, the respect of science (and scientists) by the public has been dropping and a part of that reason is because the line of what science is has become fuzzy. If economics calls itself science, well, the public knows th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 19 2012 - 10:20pm