Psychology

Coffee Addiction: Four A Day- Enemas, That Is

You might be a crackpot if you won't drink coffee because it is bad for your health, yet you are shoving it in your rectum multiple times per day.  "My Strange Addiction" on TLC this week has a story about a Florida couple who each have at l ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2013 - 3:22pm

Helping Or Helicoptering? Parental Dilemma About College Students

When is it time for parents to help and when it is time to back away? Since kids were having children of their own at age 18 a century ago it seems obvious that hovering over college-age students is not needed.  And a new paper in Journal of Child and Fam ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2013 - 5:19pm

Buy Generic Food Or Psychologists Will Call You A Republican

Some controversial modern psychologists claim that conservatives and liberals don't just differ in political ideology, correlation and causation is inferred in actual personality templates and even genetics- yes, that would mean Americans are evolvin ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 14 2013 - 11:00am

I'm Emotionally Distant And So Am I

Which is more important, feeling close to your romantic partner or whether you are as close as you want to be, even if that's really not close at all?  Outside the social sciences, the answer is obvious. But in social psychology, it is a paper in tim ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2013 - 2:35pm

Men Do Not Drive Better Because Of An Evolutionary Adaptation

Males and females differ in a lot of traits (besides the obvious ones) and some evolutionary psychologists have proposed hypotheses to explain some baffling ones. As an example, the slight, but significant, superiority in spatial navigation among males of ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2013 - 3:41pm

Approaching Suicide Positively

Howard Blume over at “looseendsdotme” in Assisted Suicide for Jumpers provides us with a strange article on my Suicidal Philosophy (which is as yet largely unpublished for reasons that should be obvious).   ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 6 2013 - 10:09pm

Familial Schizophrenia Linked To Lower IQ With Age

Schizophrenia may affect up to 1 percent of the population, it is diagnosed primarily in the teenage or early adult years, and is associated with problems in mental ability and memory. People who have a greater familial genetic link to schizophrenia are m ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2013 - 11:48am

Trust Makes You Delusional (And Sometimes That's Good)

Trust fools you into remembering that your partner was more considerate and less hurtful than they actually were, say psychologists who examined the role of trust in biasing memories of transgressions in romantic partnerships.  People who are highly trust ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2013 - 1:00pm

Autistic Kids Develop More Positive Social Behaviors Around Animals Than Toys

The presence of an animal can significantly increase positive social behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), according to a new paper. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2013 - 6:43pm

That Shouldn't Happen: The Just World Fallacy and Autism

Everyday, we hear about tragedies, some that hit too close to home for comfort, and our reactions range from "That just shouldn't happen!" to the belief that when it does happen, it must be someone's fault. ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Feb 28 2013 - 7:56am