Psychology
- Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals- Even Living In A Liberal Democracy
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America is a liberal democracy. Given the modern colloquial connotation of 'liberal' and its undertones of social authoritarianism, calling the United States a liberal democracy will make conservatives bristle, but it's true, and it is par ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 10:30am
- Carefully Designed Drug Monitoring Programs Help Keep Addiction in Check
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Despite challenges, prescription drug monitoringprograms are essential tools in ensuring opioids and other addictive medicinesare prescribed and used appropriately. ...
Blog Post - Richard Taite - Sep 9 2014 - 3:34pm
- Do Children Make You Happier Or Does The Inability To Have Them Mean Unhappiness?
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An analysis of over 7,000 women over a decade after unsuccessful fertility treatment found that women who have difficulty accepting the fact that they can't have children following unsuccessful fertility treatment have worse long-term mental health t ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 10:00pm
- When Talking About Body Size, Women And Doctors Are Speaking Different Languages
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African American women and their female children have the highest obesity prevalence of any demographic group in the United States, and they are also most likely to underestimate their body weight, according to a paper from Rush University Medical Center. ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 12:36pm
- Sunshine And Suicide Connected
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A pop song goes that rainy days and Mondays bring people down. There was always some truth to that and a new paper in JAMA quantifies the link between a lack of sunshine and suicide. The authors found that lower rates of suicide are associated with more d ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 5:04pm
- Fat Shaming And Discrimination Don't Lead To Weight Loss
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In the UK, where health care is paid for by the government, and in the United States, where health care is increasingly government controlled, fat shaming has become the norm. Since everyone will have to pay for health care, and obese people are more like ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 11:01am
- Which Patients Are Most Likely To Delay Hospice Enrollment?
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Almost 20 percent cancer patients wait to enroll in Hospice until their last three days of life. Their courage and determination is admirable, Hospice is palliative care, but it shortchanges both patients and their families and a new paper seeks to creat ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 5:01pm
- Why Would Kidney Failure Patients Not Want A Transplant?
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Concerns about kidney transplantation are very high among kidney failure patients, particularly older adults and women, but why? There are thousands of patients with kidney failure who lack access to kidney transplantation, and disparities persist in term ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2014 - 7:30am
- When Determining Risk Tolerance, Gray Matter Matters
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There is a link between our brain structure and our tolerance of risk, find economists who say they have found the first stable 'biomarker' for financial risk-attitudes. Does that mean there is a causal link between brain structure and behavior? ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2014 - 10:30am
- In Psychopaths, The Line Between Fantasy And Reality Is Thin
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A new paper indicates that people with psychopathic traits have a preference for non-romantic sexual fantasies with anonymous and uncommitted partners. ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 8:00pm
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