Psychology

Want To Seem More Attractive? Have A Pleasant Smell

Want to be sexier? Ask your next potential boyfriend to meet you in a bakery. Perfumes and scented products have been used for centuries as a way to enhance overall personal appearance and studies have shown that perception of facial attractiveness could ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 5:41pm

Start Them Early, Give Them Often If You Want Kids To Like Vegetables

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, say psychologists from the University of Leeds. ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2014 - 5:49pm

How Addicted Are You To Cigarette Smoking?

In Mexico, 21.7 percent of the population smokes. By now, smoking has been implicated in every possible condition- lung cancer, obviously, but then crazy claims like that third-hand smoke could lead to epigenetic changes that make your grandchildren obese. ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2014 - 11:32am

Women, You Do Worse On Math Tests If You Wear A Bathing Suit

Everything you do changes your brain, even reading this sentence. A psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire believes that clothing impacts the way we think and literally changes our brains. We know some of this to be true; everyone has a favorite ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2018 - 4:20pm

Undergraduate Student Surveys And Amazon's Mechanical Turk Predict Sexism- Psychologists

A sense of entitlement appears to be linked to sexism, say psychologists who believe entitled men are more likely to endorse hostile views of women while entitled women are more likely to think women are frail and need extra care.   Entitled men were foun ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2014 - 9:27am

The Role Of Social Media And Internet Sites In Suicide Clusters

700 people under the age of 25 die by suicide in the UK per year. 160 young people under the age of 20 die by suicide in England each year and there are higher rates of suicide in young people in Scotland and Northern Ireland than in England and Wales. Why ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 8:44am

Almost Human? Rats Show Regret, Says Study

Can rats show regret and, if so, how would we know? Neuroscientists at the University of Minnesota say they do and it's intriguing because regret is a cognitive behavior thought to be uniquely and fundamentally human.     "Regret is the recognit ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 10:08pm

Black People Look Blacker In A Bad Economy, Say NYU Psychologists

Is a person's race "fixed"? It seems not. Since race is a cultural construct, perceptions of race may shift as a result of changes to the perceiver's social goals and motivations, so it always seems a little silly for sociologists to d ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2014 - 5:45pm

Mortality Salience And The Trauma Curve: Soldiers Who Kill In Combat Less Likely To Be Alcoholics

Combat is correlated in some to depression and substance abuse- post-traumatic stress disorder is part of the lexicon today, real and claimed by clerks who never heard a gunshot while in the military and then a general malaise for people who had any kind ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2014 - 9:17am

Sexual Behavior Is The Biggest Risk Of Growing Up With Bipolar Parents

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a burdensome conditions, known for its dramatic highs of extreme euphoria, racing thoughts and decreased need for sleep, as well as its profound lows of sadness and despair. Because it is also associated with a heightened risk of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2014 - 3:13pm