Psychology

Some Thoughts On Parenting, And Then Research Based Blogging: Culture And Autism

When I did my master's degree, I split my areas of interest: my thesis and several projects leading up to it focused on a fairly complex intersection of how personality traits, explanatory style, religious well-being and spiritual well-being impacted ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 31 2010 - 10:22am

Meditation Reduces Emotional Impact Of Pain (Whatever That Means)

Given that the brain is something of a mystery, almost anything that works is worth doing, even if it ends up being the same as a placebo. Meditation is often linked to beneficial effects, though no one is sure why, but a new study says people who meditate ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2010 - 12:18pm

The Emic and the Etic in Cross-Cultural Research

Occasionally, as a mother of three on the spectrum and an active autism-related blogger, I need a break from all things autism. Just as the psychology of religion is one of my areas of interest, so too is cultural psychology. ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 2 2010 - 2:41pm

Robots For Therapy And The Lack Of Empathy Myth

" Empathy is one of those ski ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jun 5 2010 - 9:10pm

Number Issues: Autism and Intellectual Disability

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Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 6 2010 - 1:59pm

Once More into the Breach of Autism and Intellectual Disability

“An overall cognitive deficit is not a defining feature of autism. “ –Amiet et al. (2008) … ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 7 2010 - 6:02pm

Wait: What Were The Controls? (Kids In Lesbian Households)

A CNN headline reads " Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests ". Interesting, but wait... The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, followed 78 lesbian couples who conceived through sperm donations... The inv ...

Article - Adam Retchless - Jun 8 2010 - 8:06pm

Conducting Cross-Cultural Research

Matsumoto and Juang (2008) note that the research done in psychology is “limited to the research that generated them” and the cross-cultural psychology goes beyond typical psychological research in that it compares the variables across more than one cultur ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 9 2010 - 8:42am

The Psychology Behind The Huntsville Shootings

In the tragic Huntsville shootings reported in Nature News Feature (Life after Death. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100512/full/465150a.html. Nature 465, 150-155; 2010), Amy Bishop, an Assistant Professor in the University of Alabama’s biology department ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Jun 9 2010 - 2:08pm

True Green Or Astroturf Environmentalist- Can Body Language Tell?

No one says, "I am in favor of pollution" but how would anyone know who really cares?   Body language, claims a new book. Professor Geoff Beattie, from The University of Manchester, says mismatches between gestures and speech will allow us to ide ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2010 - 5:36pm