Psychology

Happiness Has No Direct Effect On Mortality- Neither Does Unhappiness

A study of a million UK women has shown that happiness has no direct effect on mortality nor does unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health. Studies that claim it had simply confused cause and effect.   Life-threatening poor health can cause unhapp ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2015 - 7:36pm

Minorities Less Likely To Trust Physicians

When it comes to trust in their physicians, minority groups in the United States are less likely than white people to believe their doctors care about them, according to research by University of Pennsylvania's Abigail Sewell. "That's one o ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2015 - 1:07pm

Teens With Fewer Mental Health Issues Use E-cigarettes

It has been long-established that mental health and behavioral problems such as alcohol and drug abuse are risk factors that push teens to smoke. A new study finds that less destructive kids will opt for e-cigarettes instead of cancer-causing cigarettes. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2015 - 9:21am

Strategies For Increasing Charitable Giving

With the holiday season at a fever pitch and charitable giving on people's minds, new research from the University of Delaware suggests that for organizations interested in increasing the number of givers and the amount of donations, the solution mig ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2015 - 5:05pm

Money Can Buy Happiness

With holiday shopping season in full swing, everyone's looking for the perfect gift.  But will it make you happy, or just retailers? Maybe both. A paper in Social Psychological and Personality Science says money can buy happiness, for people who like ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2015 - 4:16pm

Ask, Don't Tell, When It Comes To New Year's Resolutions

A recent analysis spanning 40 years of surveys including more than 100 papers on the 'question-behavior effect,' a phenomenon in which asking people about performing a certain behavior influences whether they do it in the future, offers insight ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2015 - 12:03pm

Stereotypes: It's Not So Black And White

Recent race-related events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago and New York City make it seem like race is a big problem in America, but in reality America seems that way because of transparency. We never need to run ad campaigns to stop racist chants at spor ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2015 - 9:08pm

Ugly Consumer: We Don't Want To Know If Our Tablet Was Made With Child Labor

No one wants to knowingly buy products made with child labor or that harm the environment and that may be why few people want to know if their favorite products were made ethically. Even beyond that, people really don't like those good people who mak ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2016 - 10:29am

Organic Paranoia Is Not New: Ancient Communities Resisted New Farming Practices Too

It may seem strange to have a segment of the population, once confined to wealthy elites on the coasts but now growing nationwide, which believe that a particular process for food is not only healthier, but materially, culturally and ethically important. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2016 - 10:09am

Most Women Don't Use Social Capital To Get Promoted, Say Successful Women

It may not be sexism that keeps more women from top jobs, it may be less understanding of the role of social capital in reaching the top, according to graduate student Natasha Abajian of City University London at the British Psychological Society's D ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2016 - 5:11pm