Psychology

How Well Do You Multitask? New Tool Says It Can Tell

Multitasking is a part of everyday home life but increasingly a part of the workplace as well- as in anything, not all people will be suited to it.    How workers feel about multitasking and how they have adapted to it (or will) may influence their job sat ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2010 - 9:49am

Solutions For A Creativity Crisis: A Look At Cuba's Technological Disobedience

When you think of the ideal creative environment, what comes to mind?  We may imagine a place where you have freedom of expression, a place that encourages breaking convention, somewhere that is abundant in resources that are readily accessible for innovat ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Nov 7 2010 - 3:30am

The Essential Psychopathology Of Creativity

If we could identify a gene for creativity, let's call it the "creativity gene", you would be hard pressed to find very many people who would consider it a "negative gene" or a hazard to possess or carry.  But what if, purely hypot ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Sep 23 2011 - 1:03pm

Slogans Vs Brands: Why One Makes Us Spend More (And One Less)

Why does e xposure to the name Walmart, a brand typically associated with saving money, reduce subsequent spending, but exposure to the Walmart slogan "Save money. Live better" increase it? ask researchers in a  Journal of Consumer Research study ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2010 - 7:44pm

Some Thoughts And Questions On Csikszentmihalyi's Flow

'Flow', or the 'flow state', refers to what you might know as being 'in the zone'. It is that state where you are wrapped up in the activity that you are doing, so much so that you are 'one' with it (in the sense of ...

Article - Warren Davies - Sep 26 2010 - 10:56am

Why Do Some Athletes Choke Under Pressure? (And How To Fix It)

Are you a brilliant student but can't take tests well?   A star athlete in practice but nerves overwhelm you at game time?   It's common but in varying degrees; the line between someone who worries about performance and therefore does even better ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2010 - 1:58pm

You Are Being Manipulated By Flowers

You are being manipulated by flowers. ...

Article - Warren Davies - Sep 29 2010 - 10:03pm

Explicit And Implicit Norms: The Classroom (And Autism) As Example

It’s been a little more than two years since I finished my master’s in psychology, and I was looking through some of the work I’d done in my social psychology class when I ran across a discussion post on implicit and explicit norms. At the time I was an ad ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Oct 1 2010 - 11:30am

Posteromedial Cortex: Divide Between Narcissists And Psychopaths Narrow

Like many of history's greatest minds, narcissists spend a great deal of time deep in thought- but for narcissists it is thought about themselves. Neuroscientists recently found a correlation between high scores on  the Machiavellian Egocentricity sub ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2010 - 11:21am

What Gamblers During Half Time Of Games Can Tell Us About The Stock Market

Gamblers behave differently during game time and lulls in action such as half-time.   A computer-modeled comparison of their actions says there are corollaries between the actions of gamblers at half-time and people in the stock market. But how do behavior ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2010 - 4:02pm