Psychology

No Cabbage? The Memory Of A Good Meal Can Fill Your Belly

If your pockets are empty and you have no money for roast beast this Christmas, there may still be hope. You could try remembering a better dinner and trick your brain into feeling full. That's episodic memory. The memory of having eaten a large meal ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2012 - 7:12pm

How To Tell A Better Lie

Lying, like anything else, can be done pretty well with some practice.  Just like not everyone can be a world class pianist but everyone can sound decent with some time and effort, with a little work, one could learn to tell a lie that may be indistinguis ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2012 - 11:42am

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works Where Antidepressants Alone Don't- Study

Antidepressants are the most widely used treatment for people with moderate to severe depression but up to two thirds of people with depression don't respond fully to antidepressants. A new paper in The Lancet says cognitive behavioral therapy reduce ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2012 - 7:30am

Aggressive Impact Of Violent Video Games Accumulates Over Time

Experimental evidence by psychologists concludes that the negative effects of playing violent video games can accumulate over time. The psychologists found that people who played a violent video game for three consecutive days showed increases in aggressi ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2012 - 11:30am

Want Conservatives To Take Action On The Environment? Frame It As A Moral Issue

Public opinion on environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation, and toxic waste seems to fall along predictable partisan lines but they have little to do with science. People who deny global warming, for example, conserve just as much energy ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2012 - 10:17pm

Word Recognition Memory: Do Words Have Feelings Too?

Emotion can help us recognize words more quickly, just like the context of a sentence can. But a new paper about the role of emotion in word recognition memory says we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech- and if we d ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2012 - 7:30pm

If You Pay Less For Medicine, Do You Worry More?

Why do people think that a $25 flu shot is more likely to still have them getting the flu than a $125 flu shot? It isn't that they think a $25 flu shot is less effective, it's that they worried they had a greater need for it because the cost is ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2012 - 4:00am

Too Big, Too Small? Optimal Circle Of Friends Depends On Socioeconomic Conditions, Goldilocks

Do you prefer to have a few close friends or a larger social circle that is less deep? Social psychologists say your preference reflect your personality but also individual circumstances- like socioeconomic conditions. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2012 - 4:30am

Attributing Schizophrenia To Income Inequality (Instead Of The Other Way Around)

Higher rates of schizophrenia are found in urban areas and it can be attributed to increased deprivation, increased population density and an increase in inequality within a neighborhood, says a new paper. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2012 - 12:32pm

More Casinos Doesn't Mean More Gamblers

A new survey by the University of Iowa says casino growth in the state has not influenced gambling by residents. It instead suggests that fewer Iowans gambled overall and also that fewer people have become addicted to gambling despite a recent spurt in ga ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2012 - 4:26pm