Psychology

Anti-GMO Beliefs Are Linked To Lower Intelligence

Whole Foods, NPR, and environmental groups brag about how wealthy and educated their customers are but recent data instead show that anti-GMO beliefs are actually a sign of being less educated. This is a big blow to Organic Consumers Association and the at ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 21 2025 - 2:59pm

Character In The Dark: How People Face Moral Dilemmas

An old saying goes that 'character is what you are in the dark', which is a way of stating that how you'd behave if no one was there to see you is really who you are outside the world of surveys. ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2025 - 4:30am

Taking A Shower Improves Moral Judgment

The next time you have to make a difficult moral decision, you might think twice about mulling it over in the bath or shower.   New research in Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of mo ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2025 - 8:21am

Only Polarized People Want Companies In Polarized Political Issues

Last year, companies began to pull back from promoting their Diversity Equity Inclusion efforts and social justice activists blamed the incoming Trump administration. It has been a violation of federal law to discriminate for 60 years so to moderates it se ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 8 2025 - 4:30am

Disclosing AI Use Leads To A Drop In Trust. So Does Not Disclosing It

Chicago Sun-Times  writer Marco Buscaglia used the popular LLM ChatGPT to create the 2025 "summer reading list" they wanted for subscribers and had enough confidence in the result that he didn't check the work.  The problem was that LLMs ar ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 23 2025 - 4:00am

WISEcode: Psychologist Proposes A New Way To Exempt Processed Foods From Harm Claims

Processed and Ultra-Processed™ foods have been heavy-rotation buzzwords in the food activist community since the Obama administration but gained increased attention once the Trump administration came into power and a chief evangelist against modern food, f ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 4 2025 - 1:31pm

Yelling Fascism Is The Fashion, But The Left Is Actually Less Diverse

If you think you are in a totalitarian regime because the US President federalized National Guard troops, you may need to get a little more intellectual diversity. An experiment instead showed that those on the right are more likely to look into the facts ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 13 2025 - 4:30am

Social Media Addiction Behavior, Not Time, Is A Harbinger Of Young Mental Health

Screen time is a concern for parents and mental health advocates but looking at screen time may be treating the symptom rather than the disease. What is a true harbinger for risk of mental health problems is addictive behavior in young people. National sur ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2025 - 12:41pm

UC Davis Epidemiologists Out To Scare New Mothers Again

In the modern era we can detect anything in anything. Being able to detect in parts per billion, trillion and even quadrillion means that if an epidemiologist can "correlate" a chemical to harm in a spreadsheet, someone raising money opposing sci ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 9 2025 - 10:27am

Forget Political Posturing, It's Hard To Warn People About Dangers Like Floods

Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly unpredictable. While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of warning systems in some places, effective flood protection re ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 11 2025 - 12:04pm