Psychology

Bling For Christmas? It Depends On Your Social Status

A desire for expensive, high-status stuff is related to feelings of social status, not social status itself, and that helps why minorities are attracted to 'bling', say psychologists. Previous psychology work has shown that racial minorities spe ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 24 2012 - 7:44pm

Pathological Thinking: A Response Of The Season Of Love To The Current Outrage

Outrage about another school shooting does its part to increase vigilance against the odd ones out, the misfits soiling the norm of usual irrationality, the a-socials, the depressed, the autistic, the evil psychopaths.   Gate keeping HR departments homoge ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 29 2013 - 9:36pm

Does Video Gaming Lead To A Lack Of Relationships?

In the aftermath of the Newtown, CT shooting, people are searching for answers. The mental illness aspect is obvious, much like with the psychology graduate student in Colorado who opened fire on viewers at a theater, but this time the focus is on the ant ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2012 - 3:43pm

We Want To Believe: 86% Of Shoppers Make Buying Decisions Based On Sustainability

Industry Intelligence Inc., formerly ForestWeb, does surveys-for-hire in a number of industries, covering everything from food to paper to packaging.  Their 2012 EcoFocus trend survey addressed what makes the 'eco-friendly shopper' tick and concl ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 21 2012 - 9:06pm

Color Of The Cup Enhances The Taste Of Hot Chocolate, Say Psychologists

Experiments psychologists from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Oxford say that the color of the cup matters in the flavor of hot chocolate- it tastes better in an orange or cream colored plastic cup than in a white or red one. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2013 - 11:49am

What Creativty And Racial Stereotypes Have In Common

New research suggests that racial stereotypes and creativity have more in common than we might think. In an article published in Psychological Science, psychologists find that racial stereotyping and creative stagnation share a common mechanism: categoric ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2013 - 2:49pm

Emotions, Not Diet And Exercise, Top Obstacle To Successful Weight Loss, Say Psychologists

Doctors and scientists will rightly note that, in every study ever done on weight loss, 100% of participants who consumed fewer calories than they burned lost weight. Exercise helps in multiple ways, but in weight loss it helps burn the calories. A survey ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2013 - 11:26am

We Trust Brown Eyed People More Than Blue- Except...

People view brown-eyed faces as more trustworthy than those with blue eyes- unless the blue eyes belong to a man with a broad face, according to a new paper in PLOS ONE.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2013 - 6:30am

New Year's Resolutions: Food Will Fail Before Facebook

January 10th came and went last week. Did you notice? Perhaps you did if losing weight was part of your New Year's Resolution. Because chances are that by day 10 you were off the wagon. What could you give up for the entire year?  New survey results s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2013 - 2:07pm

Why People Sometimes Believe In Magic

Some people believe in magic. In S cience Left Behind, in the process of debunking claims that one American political party is overwhelmingly pro-science and one is anti-science,  we put a handy chart on page 213 itemizing the various anti-science position ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 25 2013 - 11:01am