Psychology

Is Sharing A Bed With A Partner Better Or Worse? Yes

Once upon a time, young Baby Boomers ridiculed television programs that showed married couples in separate beds. They used terms like 'prudish' and 'Victorian' and 'repressed.' Actually, those shows were representative of cult ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 1 2024 - 5:30am

Is It Safe To Buy Food At A Farmers Market?

There is populist rhetoric about Buy Local but what few in the public realize is that the definition is subjective. Restaurants in Manhattan often claim they buy local, but in the fine print it reads 'when available', and they don't tell you ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 5 2024 - 1:19pm

More State Run Liquor Stores May Prevent Suicides

Suicide is the runaway leader in gun deaths in the United States and a new demography paper says more government control of the alcohol business might provide a solution for that, and homicides also. This was a statistical analysis, so only EXPLORATORY, bu ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 26 2024 - 4:00am

Astrologers Deduce Personalities As Poorly As Anyone Else

Astrology is one of those things that makes no sense to literate people. The position of stars a billion light-years away determined your personality, but if you are in the eastern world that personality could be completely different than if you were born ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 17 2024 - 9:51am

Weekend Science: The Wine Glass Affects How Much You Get Poured

Unless you are in a bar and have a bartender with a pour spout (in other words, a terrible bar), pouring a glass of wine is not an exact measurement. And at a private party or in someone's house, a 'glass of wine' can be more like three- if ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 27 2024 - 7:55am

Independent Voters Decide Elections, But Undecided Voters Least Likely To Vote

Get-out-the-vote campaigns matter, which is why U.S. political parties encourage those in their tribe to vote by mail long before any controversies can change their mind. Voting is so predictable that about six percent of voters actually decide the electio ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 1 2024 - 5:21pm

Halloween Horror Science: Are Chickens That Learn A Bigger Threat To Us Than AI?

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) vegetarian advocacy group has a paper out arguing that common broiler chickens not only learn more than the obvious, like which bowl has food, they get happier learning.  Their marketing ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 30 2024 - 1:19pm

How Social Media Affects Young People

Last year, the American Psychological Association (APA) issued a health advisory on the use of social media by adolescents. This was based on mounting scientific evidence that social media has both benefits and risks for teens, and that parents and guardi ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Oct 31 2024 - 12:40am

Thanksgiving Science: Did COVID-19 Revive Family Dinners?

If cultural pundits can invent an Anthropocene Epoch then a Digital Epoch makes even more sense. In 2000, only in Japan did you see people on trains four inches from other humans chatting other humans on other trains, most of whom they'd never meet. N ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 1 2024 - 12:35pm

Counseling By Math: Why Your Relationship Is A Sine Wave

Marriage counseling is so 20th century.  The 21st century may belong to relationship n euroinformaticians because they can create a mathematical model for efficient communication in your love life.  The dynamics of love can look like a sine wave, with smoo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 15 2024 - 10:25am