Psychology

Complexity, Morality and our Collective Economic Fate. I’ve been reading a lot of Paul Krugman lately, given the state of the economy and such. If you have been following him, you may have noticed one of his repeating refrains, “ Economics is not a moralit ...

Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 2 2010 - 12:20am

Stressed MAFIA bosses seek help from psychotherapy in Italy

MAFIA life used to be simple; whether you liked "Morte Alle Francia Italia Anela" or "Morte Alle Francese Italiani Avanti"(1) they both meant kicking the snot out of the French, who had a pesky habit of causing trouble prior to Italian ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 7 2010 - 11:00am

Eat More Meat, Be Less Aggressive

Know why vegetarians are so angry? They don't eat meat, it seems. So this Thanksgiving, grab the turkey leg and tear off a hunk of flesh with your teeth and rationalize that evolutionary psychology thinks it made your cavemen ancestors nicer people. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2010 - 10:38am

Availability Heuristic At Play In The Autism-Vaccine Wars

Writing balanced posts can be tricky, especially in relation to vaccines. Vaccines, like religions and politics, have become a hot-button topic in social discussions, and these three areas are absolutely polarized, definitely enter-at-your-own-risk sorts o ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Nov 12 2010 - 9:21pm

Blog Tour: 1,001 Tips Come to Countering

When my husband and I first realized in 1994 that we were entering the world of special needs parenting, there were very few books as guidelines. When autism entered our vocabulary, the first thing I read was Bruno Bettelheim's The Empty Fortress. ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Nov 13 2010 - 9:45am

Finger Length Correlated To Financial Risk Taking

Gad Saad, who likes to link evolution to consumption and marketing phenomena, says the length between the second and fourth finger is an indicator of high levels of prenatal testosterone and therefore risk-taking and potential financial success in adult m ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2010 - 11:02am

Before You Buy: A Woo Primer For Parents

It seems like many autism-related sites have ads on them for our kids, promising all sorts of results. How do we evaluate the claims of these products and prevent ourselves from (1) wasting precious financial resources, and (2) putting our precious childre ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Nov 22 2010 - 5:22pm

People Behave Badly When It's Easy

If you were a young person watching "The Empire Strikes Back" and saw Darth Vader clearly being more powerful than everyone else yet not being all that evil- and with Yoda telling Luke how much easier the 'dark side of the force' was, y ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2010 - 12:32pm

The impact of 9/11 on American character

Let's have some fun and pick apart a paper (try saying "pick apart a paper" 10 times fast!) The question is, did the 9/11 terrorist attacks impact the character of Americans? I mean that personally not just in political attitudes towards t ...

Blog Post - Warren Davies - Aug 24 2011 - 6:37pm

Primitive Instincts- Females Want Mates To Win Fights

Women may regard love and affection and consideration as most important in a mate, but if research in African cichlid fish applies to humans, they are suppressing a more primitive instinct to like winners. In African cichlid fish, even when a female show ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2010 - 4:00am