Psychology

Media, Studies, and Misunderstanding Science (sometimes badly)

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Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 28 2010 - 11:17am

Paradigm shift: on absurdity of mechanical world view

So, I try to put it into English what I think about life and mistakenness of current canonical paradigm about a life. There are several points, where the current paradigm is simply wrong. I have made some notices about it before, also, but I try to make a ...

Blog Post - Helium Väli - Jun 15 2010 - 5:43pm

The Use of Terms When Discussing Autism, Intelligence, Impairment, and Disability

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Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 28 2010 - 11:17am

Double Your Chances Of Getting A Date? Use A Soundtrack When Asking Her Out

One thing the film industry get right- and they don't get much right, since romantic comedy behavior in real life is likely to get you a restraining order- is that music evokes moods. French researchers (naturally) say they have determined that if you ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2010 - 9:46am

Spiritual Well-Being and Life Satisfaction When Part of a Diverse Religious Affiliation

Religion, regardless of one’s personal religious or spiritual beliefs, matters. The chances of being part of a diverse religious affiliation increase as our global community expands. McFaul (2006) points out that while two out of every three people in the ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 19 2010 - 12:58pm

Facilitated Communication Quackery Gets Journalistic Promotion In Annapolis

Lest you think that the AoAers have a hold on promoting woo or, just as bad, think that the mainstream media had potentially wised up (Kudos, Tsouderos!), a local reporter in ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jul 6 2010 - 2:04pm

Can Money Buy Happiness? The World Answers

It's a common phrase; money can't buy happiness. But a worldwide survey of more than 136,000 people in 132 countries that included questions about happiness and income revealed that life satisfaction certainly does rise with income, though it s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2010 - 1:16am

Both Idealism And Religious Extremism Can Result From Anxiety

Are you a bold personality? High self-esteem, action-oriented, eager, tenacious? If so, you are more likely to be a religious extremist when anxiety occurs, according to findings by York University researchers in this month's Journal of Personality ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2010 - 1:29pm

Word Association Can Predict Your Next Break Up, Says Study

Using an implicit task, researchers monitored how people automatically responded to words – in this case, whether they find it easier to link words referring to their partner to words with pleasant or unpleasant meanings- and this told them how likely coup ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2010 - 7:44pm

Ruminations on the Judge Rotenberg Center