Psychology

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

Gambler Psychology: Near-Misses Are Frustrating Losses Rather Than Near-Wins

Gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins, and that frustration stimulates the reward systems in the brain to promote continued gambling, which may contribute to addictive gambling behavior.  Analyses to date have shown tha ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2012 - 12:31pm

Recession Has Been Hardest On Men's Mental Health

The economic downtown that began in 2008 has been hardest on the mental health of men in England- yet it isn't the actual unemployment and falling household income the authors blame. They blame the threat of losing their jobs in a society that places ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2012 - 6:30pm

Cyberbullying Does Not 'Cause' Teen Suicide

While it makes for convenient mainstream media news pieces to draw convenient lines between cyber-bullying and suicide and thus declare that ending bullying would end suicides, it's not so simplistic, notes research from the American Academy of Pediat ...

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

Iron Curtain Political Prisoners Still Have Psychological Problems

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of East and West Germany,  one third of political prisoners of the former  German Democratic Republic (GDR) still suffer from sleeping disorders, nightmares and irrational fear, say professor ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2012 - 10:02am

If You Want To Charge For Content, Use Psychology

If you are a $2 billion company, people will pay for your content- if you are losing money and not making a profit, claims a paper published today in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2012 - 5:40pm

Not All Self Harm Is Mental Illness

Self-harm is rather common among young people but we tend to think of all self harm in modern times as elaborate cutting rituals and signs of mental illness.   Not so, many teenagers have at one time scratched, punctured or even cut themselves and hit thei ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2012 - 9:19am

Replication: How Psychology Can Become Science

In its third century, psychological science will come of age but a mature discipline carries with it responsibilities, chief among them the responsibility to maximize confidence in findings through good data practices and replication. In the recent issue o ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2012 - 4:30am