Psychology

How To Get Moral Free-Riders To Cooperate: Make Everyone Pre-Pay

Moral judgments, ideas about good or bad, remain the building block of cooperation in a large group. A rule of thumb for promoting cooperation is to help those who have a good reputation and not those who have a bad reputation, yet that determination requ ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2016 - 3:20pm

Why Republicans And Democrats Are Self-Segregating

San Francisco people won't be happy until Dallas is just like them- but they insist they need to force that change in the name of tolerance and diversity. Of course, there is nothing about tolerance and diversity that is implemented with hostile inte ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2016 - 4:02pm

Psychologist Uses Surveys About Social Media And Safety Nets To Declare Conservatives Are Less Scientific

Academic social psychologists, who are over 99 percent liberal, can be reliably counted on to create surveys to affirm that liberals are more intelligent, less fearful of change, likely to have prettier children- especially in an election year. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2016 - 7:47am

Gay Youth In Massachusetts Have Higher Rates Of Eating Disorders

Gay youths are more likely to purge or take laxatives, use diet pills, or fast to lose weight than their straight peers, according to new research from the University of British Columbia which analyzed data from surveys of youths ages 12 to 18 that were a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2016 - 6:30am

Osteopathic Manipulation: A Possible Treatment For A Subjective Condition

Osteopaths have made their way into various aspects of medicine, primarily because they are still willing to be GPs at a time when MDs are running from government bureaucracy and paperwork, but their founding precepts are still vague. And if you want vague ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2016 - 9:47am

The Editors Music Makes Beer Taste Better

Music can influence how much you like the taste of beer, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology. Their findings suggest that a range of multisensory information, such as sound, sensation, shape and color, can influence the way we percei ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2016 - 9:23am

Netflix And Less Chill: Millennials Aren't The 'Hookup Generation', Say Survey Results

The biggest misconception young people have about the 1960s is that they actually happened in the 1970s. The real free love/drug culture only began in the summer of 1968- the decade after, before AIDS, was really the time to hook up. Yet many think it is ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2016 - 9:19am

Is Trump Or Clinton Really That Bad? Partisan Media Can Influence Viewers To Reject Facts

Heavy users of partisan media outlets are more likely than others to hold political misperceptions that are in defiance of facts. So if you think Republicans blocked Zika funding by withholding money for Planned Parenthood, or that Hillary Clinton is havi ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2016 - 10:37am

Do Dogs Prefer Praise Or Food?

Pavlov's famous behavioral experiment involved a dog. Dogs want food. Maybe not so clear, according to a paper in  Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Given the choice, many dogs prefer praise from their owners over food, suggests the work, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2016 - 7:30am

Pessimism About Claim That People Are Over-Optimistic About The Future

In the United States, there used to be a belief that the next generation would always have it better. No more. A lingering economic malaise and non-stop apocalyptic jingo-ism about chemicals, food, medicine and the environment instead have young people su ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2016 - 7:01am