Psychology

Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy Report Similar Quality Of Life To Other Kids

Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in childhood, afflicting between between 1 and 4 per 1,000 kids born worldwide. It's more common among boys than girls and only about half of adolescents with it can walk independently but regardless ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 7:06pm

Encourage Diversity: Weight-Inclusive Versus Weight-Normative Health Policy

Emphasizing weight in health definitions could be harmful to patients, finds an article in the Journal of Obesity.  Dr. Rachel Calogero of the School of Psychology at the University of Kent and colleagues recommend that this approach, known as 'weigh ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 4:01pm

Orthorexia Nervosa- Do GMO Opponents Have A Psychological Disorder?

Some people are so obsessed with their food it smacks of zealotry. They might eat only a certain kind of fish cooked on a certain piece of wood.  They might even believe that they can taste the difference between a strawberry processed at an organic farm a ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 10 2014 - 2:38pm

Teenage Depression: Girls Impacted Most

Adolescence is often a turbulent time for both genders, marked by biological changes and substantially increased rates of depressive symptoms. But girls seem to take it a lot harder and a new paper in Clinical Psychological Science believes this gender di ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 12:31pm

Fooling A Kindergartner Isn't As Easy As You Might Think

Pre-school kids have a lot to learn. They often don't even know how to tie their shoelaces or count to 100. But that is an applications issue. When it comes to skepticism, even kids at age 5 show critical thinking skills.  A new study published in PL ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 12:01pm

Receiver Operating Characteristics And 5 Ways To Improve Eyewitness Identification Of Criminals

Psychologists recently carried out hundreds of mock police lineups to determine the most successful procedure for identification of criminals. Inaccurate identification can obviously lead to the prosecution of innocent people while guilty ones go free. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2014 - 4:27pm

Greenpeace Versus Shell Via Lego: The Building Blocks Of A Successful PR Campaign

Stick 'em up. Credit: Me2, CC BY-NC-SA By Toby Miller, Cardiff University ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 12 2014 - 11:16am

Believe In Science? You're Easier To Fool Than You Think

Do you believe in science? Most people do. Some even say they 'accept' science, since that sounds less faith-oriented than 'believe', but ask most science-accepting atheists and fundamentalist Imams about adaptive radiation in evolutio ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 2:32pm

Not The Christian Thing To Do: Reminding People Of Religious Belief Reduces Hostility

Muslim terrorists and the Klu Klux Klan share one thing in common; they claim to be religious even though the ideas they promote (and in the case of the former, the actions they take) are not very nice. The fringes get all of the attention but most religi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2014 - 10:46am

'Extreme Altruists' Are Motivated By Gut Instinct

Intuitive processes may underlie decisions of those who help others while risking their own lives. Credit: AAresTT/Shutterstock By Penny Orbell, The Conversation If you noticed a person in grave danger would you act first and think later in order to save ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 16 2014 - 12:01pm