Psychology

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

On Facebook, Women Are More Plentiful But Men Are Better Ad Targets

Global digital marketing companies Resolution Media and Kenshoo Social published a new report today called "Social Media Insights: Men are Cheap" which claims gender differences in Facebook advertising campaigns and offers actionable guidance to ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 29 2012 - 2:30pm

Why Do Female Republican House Members Look More Like Women?

The more conservative a female House of Representatives lawmaker is, the more likely she is to look like a woman, according to a UCLA analysis. Heteronormative gender bias, right? Stupid GOP likes 1950s stereotypes. Maybe. The GOP wears ties too, and it� ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2012 - 6:30pm

College Undergraduates Disempowered By The Pressure Of Having To Be Sexually Empowered

There is a common belief that men are empowered sexually. Men know this is silly, of course. It is women who decide each day if they want to have sex or not, not men.  It's in college that young men learn this lesson. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2012 - 9:16pm

Political Independents Are Most Racist, Says Psychologist

While rabid Democrats charge Republicans with racism and rabid Republicans do the same to Democrats, the least partisan people and therefore most independent are really the most likely to use race as a criterion, according to a new survey.  While a Republi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2012 - 9:17pm