Psychology

COVID-19 Pandemic Caused Suicide Rates Among Women In Japan To Increase

Japan has a high suicide rate, so it was news when there were reports from the National Police Agency that October 2020 had more suicide deaths in just that month than they had deaths due to COVID-19 for the year. (1)  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2022 - 6:58pm

Lockdowns Doubled Mental Health Issues

During the almost two years of on-again off-again COVID lockdowns, we heard lots of concern from many different corners about the mental health effects of forcing people to stay home and keep away from friends and family. Many research projects were under ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 12 2022 - 9:22am

Modern Students Report More Mental Health Issues Than Any Young People In History

In a new paper, scholars say depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues are more common than ever before, and that people of color are impacted most. The data are from surveys, and young people have always felt a need to 'live in important ti ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2022 - 2:07pm

Getting Risk Right: Geoffrey Kabat's Guide To Resisting Health Scares

Type “BPA” and “toxic” into Google and you get more than 500,000 results, many detailing how this chemical additive, which is used to strengthen plastics and line metal cans to prevent food poisoning, is disrupting your endocrine system and slowly killing ...

Article - Jon Entine - May 11 2022 - 2:09pm

Metonymy: Why A Word Like 'Gate' Added Lets People Know It's A Scandal

On June 17, 1972, Washington, D.C., police arrested five men for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Although the administration’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, dismissed the crime as a “ third-rate burglary,” its scope wo ...

Article - The Conversation - May 28 2022 - 2:32pm

Rich People Who Grew Up Poor Are Less Likely To Be Sympathetic To The Poor Than Those Born Wealthy

A saying in psychology goes that more truth comes out when people are drunk. This is even when it comes to politics, where studies showed that young people who espouse more liberal beliefs get more conservative when they are inebriated. They stop saying wh ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2022 - 10:02am

Maybe Hangry Is Not Just A Marketing Invention- New Survey Links Hunger To Irritability

Hangry, a portmanteau of hungry and angry, is widely used in everyday language but the phenomenon has not been widely explored by science outside of laboratory environments. You have probably seen it in television commercials, where someone is irritable, c ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2022 - 4:13pm

If You Don't Get A Third COVID-19 Shot, Are You A Narcissist?

One thing that must annoy psychiatrists is that everyone will try to claim expertise in their field if they want to make a political point- in the case of a recent paper it is literally humanities scholars who want more mask and vaccine mandates. To achiev ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 15 2022 - 11:37am

Put Down Your Phone And Let Your Mind Wander

In the modern era, people are rarely not busy. When we have a free moment we are reading on a cell phone or playing a game. There are even jokes about someone sitting in a coffee shop and seeming bizarre because they just enjoy a coffee.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2022 - 9:14am

COVID-19: Paying People To Stay Home Helped Mental Health – But Not As Much As Working

In March 2020, a few days before lockdown was introduced, the UK government launched the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, widely referred to as “furlough”. This scheme provided employees who were unable to work due to the pandemic with 80% of their pay ( ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 9 2022 - 4:12pm