Psychology

Facilitated Communication: A Price Too High To Pay

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Article - Kim Wombles - Jan 24 2011 - 7:42pm

Selling Psychology- Consumers Think 36 Months Is Longer Than 3 Years

When you were younger, you may have wondered why gas had odd prices like $1.09.9 and your parents likely told you it's because $1.09.9 looks cheaper than $1.10.   Stores love prices that end in $.99 for that reason. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2011 - 1:27am

The Neuroscience Of Creativity And Insight—The Good, The Bad, & The Absolutely Ridiculous

—A Critical Look at Recent Studies of Creativity and Insight— "All this fires in my soul, and—provided I am not disturbed—my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and defined, and in the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and fini ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Feb 16 2011 - 6:49pm

Biased? It May Just Be Your Low Self-Esteem

Think all Republicans are anti-science or religious people are stupid?  You may look for data to rationalize your bias but a new study in Psychological Science says it may just be your own low self-esteem;  when people are feeling badly about themselves, t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2011 - 5:28pm

Navigating The Autism World: Facilitated Communication Is Still Pseudoscience

Some of the most naturally appealing stories in the autism world (and our wider world) are those stories that reinforce the myth of the self-made man (a concept I coincidentally taught this week in American Literature). We like movies like Rudy, All the R ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Feb 25 2011 - 10:18pm

In Romance, Too Many Choices May Hurt

In New York City, you can easily date a different person within a mile of your home for the rest of your life and never come close to duplicating- and that may be why people in New York City have trouble finding relationships, according to a study in Psych ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2011 - 3:34pm

Self-Objectification: Facebook Photo Sharing Reflects Female Focus On Appearance

Despite what some sociologists want you to believe, it isn't always men doing the objectification of women.  At least on Facebook, some women go out of their way to be noticed. The millenia-old contention that women care more about their appearance an ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2011 - 3:11pm

Weak Supporting Evidence Hurts Credibility

Some researchers have wondered why a few credibility issues in particular studies (see Marc Hauser in psychology and parts of the IPCC report in 2007 and anything at all related to cold fusion in physics) would damage the image of researchers across an ent ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2011 - 3:26pm

Ballet is when Neurons Grow Big

A few days ago Semperoper Ballett had its second special performance as part in the project "On the move". They play with new and adapted choreography at various places in the city of Dresden that are not "opera-like". ...

Blog Post - Ralf Lippold - Mar 8 2011 - 11:40am

Antisocial Media: IPad Madness Causing Holiday Sadness?

LONDON, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- The age of antisocial media is upon us. A recent online MyDestinationInfo.com survey, conducted by YouGov, revealed that 30% of UK holidaymakers who use a portable multimedia device update their Facebook status when o ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 14 2011 - 9:45am