Psychology

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

Chronic Lyme Disease And Fibromyalgia: New Meta-Analysis Suggests Doctors Are Gaslighting Patients

A recent meta-analysis of 151 studies included 11,307 instances of some conditions physicians and scientists dismiss and critics of medicine deem it medical "gaslighting." Joining them are alternative medicine proponents, like Folk Traditional Al ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 29 2025 - 1:44pm

The Bystander Effect Of Aggression- When Your Peers Attack

If you have spent any time on social media, you have a different kind of bystander effect in action. Psychologists say if many people are around, the bystander effect is why everyone is less likely to help. They believe someone else will be more competent ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2025 - 9:50am

Yankeedom, New France, Left Coast: 'Wellness' Is Regional And Based On Which Europeans Settled There

People in the northeast of the United States think they have greater "wellness" than everywhere else except California. People in the southern United States think they have more wellness than everywhere else. Which is right? They both are. Wellne ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2025 - 10:36am

Prenatal Depression May Be A Sign Of Privilege

New survey results find that sociocultural factors may be involved in how likely someone is to report moderate to severe depression symptoms and get a prenatal depression diagnosis. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2025 - 12:30pm

Trust As Commodity: How Ukraine Public Services Keep Going During War

Three years into war with Russia and martial law, public services continue to operate and citizens continue to have confidence in them. A new analysis of survey results in Government information Quarterly says trust in public figures and a sense of coopera ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2025 - 8:49am