Psychology

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

What Savants, Child Prodigies And Autistics May Share In Common

In the past, the stereotypes of autism often included a savant capability in some specific thing. A new look at eight child 'prodigies' suggests there may actually be a link between the children's special skills and autism.  Or, people who ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2012 - 4:00pm

Can Bilingualism Help With Rescuing Children From Poverty?

Adverse childhood experiences, such as being raised in poverty, can be detrimental for cognitive development often leaving children struggling in school and trapped forever in a cycle of hardship. But a study is now suggesting a innovative (and easy) way t ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Nov 13 2012 - 4:33pm

Health Care Access Doesn't Help Prevent Doctor Suicide

Suicidal doctors have excellent access to health care but appear to be under-treated for mental health problems, according to a new University of Michigan analysis.   More physicians than non-physicians in their analysis had known mental health problems p ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2012 - 8:10pm