Psychology

Bullying: Popular Kids Impacted Most

A new sociology paper finds that bullying does not just occur among social outcasts. It happens to popular kids too, and the impact may be magnified even more. Popular kids could suffer more from a single act of social aggression. In a study of students a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 11:57am

On Surveys, Customers Prefer Restaurants That Offer Health Food

When people go out to restaurants, they don't care about eating healthy. Great chefs know the secret to food people want is unreal levels of butter. Fast food restaurants have been convinced to spend tens of millions of dollars marketing healthy choi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 10:43am

Oxytocin Promotes Group Lying

Oxytocin, the love hormone, is correlated to everything from maternal attachment to sexual addiction. Now it has been implicated in lying. Oxytocin is a hormone the body naturally produces to stimulate bonding and psychologists from Ben-Gurion University ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 2:36pm

Attachment Research Says It's Okay To Throw Pine Cones At Your Kids

I was at the park the other day throwing pinecones at my kids when a horrified mother asked, “How can you hit your kids with pinecones!” I said it was pretty easy: you just don’t lead them as much. First, this is important because my brain is almost compl ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Apr 2 2014 - 7:29am

From Norway To America, Why Are Young Men Committing Mass Killings?

Recent mass killings in Norway, America and in numerous countries have happened at locations as different as schools, movie theaters, and marathons. Though the actual number of mass killings has not changed in 30 years, they get a lot more attention now. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 10:42am

Women Won't Apply If A Job Sounds Too Male

  There are various efforts to try and spur more equality among genders in certain fields. Companies say they don't care about gender- and they don't, unless government forces them to hire people to fill in boxes on government forms.  They say t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 10:04am

Romance Cyberpsychology: Where People Meet Each Other

Up to 7% of Americans married between 2005-2012 say they met on social networking sites. This has led to a rash of claims by marketing groups for dating sites that it is the future of romance and that more marriages happen to their technology. Between 3 a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 1:06pm

Indoor Tanning Beds Linked To Bulimia In Teens

A new paper has linked unhealthy weight control behavior, like vomiting and diet pills, to indoor tanning among high school students. Another supposed problem for middle class white girls? Not so, say the authors in the Journal of Developmental&Behavi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2014 - 5:36pm

Carl Jung And Darth Vader: Antihero Affectations May Get You On A Mass Murderer Watch List

Sorry Batman, the dark knight persona is going exactly where Frank Miller predicted it would three decades ago in "The Dark Knight Returns"- you are going to be labeled an over-medicated, mentally disturbed sociopath. The over-medicated may be ri ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2014 - 11:35am

Paternal Obesity Linked To Child Autism

Is there a link between maternal obesity during pregnancy and the risk of developmental disorders in a child? In the wide world of epigenetics and causalation there can be, because no one can prove there can't be. However, if obesity is a link at all ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 12:34pm