Psychology

Willpower Alone Won't Help You Lose Weight

While exerting willpower is an important part of losing weight, new evidence suggests that their may be more to successful dieting than simply trying to eat less. Cognitive scientists from Indiana University and the Max Planck Institute for Human Developme ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2010 - 1:06pm

Self-Control (Or Lack Thereof) Might Be Contagious

In a just-published series of studies involving hundreds of volunteers, University of Georgia and Duke University psychologists say that watching or even thinking about someone with good self-control makes others more likely exert self-control. The researc ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2010 - 12:56pm

How Desires Influence Our Perception

Writing in Psychological Sciences, researchers from New York University and Cornell University say they've demonstrated that our desires influence how we see our environments. According to the new research, we view things we want as being physically c ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2010 - 5:28pm

What Parents Don't Teach You, Siblings Will

What we learn from our siblings when we grow up has a considerable influence on our social and emotional development as adults, according to researchers from the the University of Illinois and the University of California, Davis. The team says that a clear ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2010 - 2:04pm

Somewhere On the Journey to Recovery...

The Athena Festival accentuates celebrating “the wisdom of women”, and indeed at the gathering that I attended, there did seem to be an air of celebration and excitement.  In addition to a multigenerational female turnout, a few stout-hearted and deferent ...

Blog Post - Laura Hult - Jan 18 2010 - 7:02am

Abstract Language More Convincing To Consumers, Study Finds

The next time you want to convince someone to vote for your favored political candidate, or to buy a certain product, use abstract language, say the authors of a new study published in the The Journal of Consumer Research. The study found that consumers re ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2010 - 12:16pm

Too Many Choices May Be Unhealthy, Psychologists Suggest

Thanks to capitalism and a cultural heritage of individual freedom, Americans enjoy just about ever modern convenience imaginable and do almost anything they want. But, according to psychologists from Standford University and Swarthmore College, the amount ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2010 - 1:42pm

Too Many Choices? Not So Fast, Psychologists Say

Some pyschologists suggests that too many choices can negatively impact our health. But a meta-analysis of 50 published and unpublished experiments that investigated choice overload  found that consumers generally respond positively to having many choices. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2010 - 12:14pm

Underachievers Excel At 'Fun' Tasks, Study Finds

Hard workers who are motivated to achieve generally excel on specific tasks when they are reminded of the benefits of their hard work. But when a task is presented as fun, researchers report in a new Journal of Personality and Social Psychology study, the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2010 - 7:26pm

Video Games Help Explain How We Learn

In a new Cerebral Cortex study, researchers say they can predict a person's performance on a video game simply by measuring the volume of specific structures in their brain. The authors found that nearly a quarter of the variability in achievement see ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:01pm