Psychology

Binge Drinking College Students Cooler And Happier Than Sober Ones

A sociology paper claims that binge-drinking college students are having a much better time in school than their non-binge-drinking counterparts. Binge drinking may be popular on campuses not simply because young people have no jobs yet don't live at ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2012 - 1:30pm

Deadline Confidence Judgment: Turns Out Profiling Works

Modern culture is always trying to find new ways to catch bad guys more scientifically but as psychology has fallen in credibility, so has one of its more successful methods; profiling. It isn't a new trend; after the terrorist attacks of September 11 ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2012 - 9:36am

Veterinarians Squeamish About Working On Dead Animals Might Reconsider Their Careers

Danish veterinarians are a little squeamish about working on dead animals- instead of encouraging them to find other careers, the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen is encouraging them to work on stuffed animals to lessen their anxiet ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2012 - 2:56pm

Internet Addiction Is Biological, Says Study

Spend too much time on Facebook?  Can't get enough LOLcat videos? You no longer need to be ashamed.  You may have a disease.  Psychologists interviewed a total of 843 people about their Internet habits and an analysis of the questionnaires showed that ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2012 - 3:56pm

The Pseudoscience Of Lie Detectors

It seems that one continuously hears about individuals passing or failing the lie detector, and despite many questions regarding its veracity, people still assume that there is a scientific basis for its use. However, lie detection, or polygraphy is not ba ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 31 2012 - 10:21am

Moving Beyond Arbitrary Borders and Artificial Scripts: Real Social Skills Training for All

For every "treatment" or remediation in autism-land, there are both fervent believers and detractors. For every person helped, there's another harmed. Perhaps, just perhaps, in some cases, it's not the therapy itself, but the person co ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Sep 3 2012 - 9:44am

Death Row Inmates Don't Eat Health Food

Dr. Brian Wansink,  professor of marketing  and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, has tackled weighty issues such as what the paintings of "The Last Supper" can tell us about their diets, how kitchen spoons could be poisoning children a ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2012 - 12:06pm

Read Food Labels, Lose Weight

Here is a diet plan that requires no special meal purchases or even exercise, it just requires a willingness to believe that correlation-causation arrows fly backwards.  People, especially women, who read food labels are thinner. The results of surveys on  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2012 - 10:22am

Advertising Drone: People Ignore Messages Of Candidates In Opposing Parties

Did Sen. Barack Obama buy the election of 2008, given that he bypassed public financing and so was able to raise and spend twice as much money as Sen. John McCain?  In 2012, the concern is the high spending by PACs but the playing field is level, both camp ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2012 - 12:50pm

Why Physicians Are Abandoning General Practice

Doctors don't want to be general care physicians, they want to specialize, and it is a problem that will only get worse because it involves money. Primary care physicians are at the heart of health care in the United States, they are the first to diag ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2012 - 11:46am