Psychology

Trypophobia? The Most Common Phobia You Probably Never Heard Of

A new paper says there may be a biological reason why you are afraid of soap bubbles. An ancient evolutionary part of the brain, say psychologists Dr. Geoff Cole and Professor Arnold Wilkins  from the Centre for Brain Science at the University of Essex, is ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2013 - 11:30am

Republican And Democratic Brains Debunked For (Hopefully) The Last Time

It's easy to forget that there was once a time when a lot of hype resulted from claims that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed biological differences between political brains- it was open season on the opposition by people who understand biology ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 3 2013 - 1:53pm

Schizo-OCD: The Difference Between Obsession And Delusion

Zoological methods of studying behavior patterns in animals have led to insights on people with serious mental disorders. Prof. David Eilam of Tel Aviv University 's Zoology Department recorded patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and "sc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 11:13am

False Memory, False Descriptions And False Denials

 What happens when you tell a lie? Ethical concerns aside, what goes on in your brain when you willfully deceive someone? And what happens later, when you attempt to access the memory of your deceit? How you remember a lie may be impacted profoundly by ho ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2013 - 10:24am

Obesity Psychology: Teens Who Lose Weight At Greater Risk For Anorexia And Bulimia

Obese teenagers who lose weight are at greater risk of developing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, a sign that there may be a psychology issue regarding their relationship to food. But because weight loss is a healthy positive ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2013 - 10:49am

Reminiscence Bumps: Music Makes Autobiographical Memories For Young People

Music makes people nostalgic, it has long been said that music can bring us back to specific points in time.  Young adults surveyed recently are even fond of and have an emotional connection to the music that was popular for their parents' generation ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2013 - 9:56am

These Children Considered Autistic May Be Misdiagnosed

One subset of children frequently believed to have autism may be misdiagnosed because some of the social impairments associated with their developmental delay looks like features of autism, according to a new paper.  The children have a genetic disorder c ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2013 - 6:54am

Empathy In Psychopaths: A Neurological Basis?

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow affect, glibness, manipulation and callousness. Though less than one percent of the general population meet the criteria, the rate of psychopathy in prisons is a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2013 - 4:46pm

Oxytocin Could Make You More Tolerant

Oxytocin, colloquially called the 'love hormone' because of its correlation to mother-infant attachment and romantic bonding in adults, could also make us more accepting of other people, according to a new psychology paper.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2013 - 1:28pm

Poor Sleep Linked To Autism And Behavior

Disrupted sleep patterns have been linked to autism but the quality of the evidence accumulated to date has often been compromised by small sample size, lack of agreed definitions, and poor comparability of study participants. Some data also suggest that ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2013 - 6:00am