Psychology

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

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