Psychology

Anxiety- Women, Young People Impacted Most

Anxiety may be a first world problem- and a young female one at that. A review of reviews (so calibrate your expectations) in Brain and Behavior finds that women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, and people from Western Europe and N ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2016 - 11:15am

Eating In Moderation Varies By Individual

Though diet book authors claim they have a once-size-fits-all solution for weight gain, be it giving up sugar or salt or wheat, the fact is that we have the luxury of being able to eat in excess for a very low cost.  But 'do everything in moderation& ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2016 - 12:03pm

Veneer Of Social Responsibility Drives Green Products

How can you buy a new car and still appear socially responsible? Make it a hybrid or electric car. The manufacturing strain on the environment is the same, and the energy production strain is worse because the energy density is far less than combustion, b ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2016 - 12:59pm

Psychiatric Diagnoses Not Valid For African-Americans, Says Sociologist

Depression is different for African-Americans than Caucasian-Americans or Latin-Americans, and   the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), the primary source of diagnostic information for clinicians, psychiatric drug regulation ag ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2016 - 7:51am

How Republicans And Democrats View Foreigners Since Bin Laden's Death

At the 2012 Democratic convention, when President Obama mentioned that his administration had killed the terrorist Osama Bin Laden, the building erupted in cheers. This was positively un-Democratic, to both Democrats and Republicans. Democrats were suppos ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2016 - 7:30am

Religion Steers Adolescents Away From Porn

A new paper in the Journal of Adolescenc e finds that adolescents attending religious services has a positive affect on reducing pornography viewing. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2016 - 7:52am

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