Psychology

If Restaurants Label Pasta As Salad, Dieters Choose It More

Dieting is hard work.  While ingesting the calories to gain weight is simple, the loss of those calories and the mental 'hunger' and the exercise it requires is no small thing. Given that, it's no surprise dieters who look for healthy food c ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2011 - 11:35am

Autism Awareness Month: Autism In Documentaries

As everyone in the autism community knows all too well, April is Autism Awareness month and a good time to release autism documentaries. ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 21 2011 - 11:39am

Studies You Don't Need To Read: Doubts About The President's Birth Were Racism

In 2008, when concerns about the birth place of future nominee and then campaign winner Barack Obama first surfaced, most felt like he should just show a birth certificate.   He didn't want to 'dignify' it then, to a point where it has dogge ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 30 2011 - 6:27pm

The Science Of Firewalking

What draws people to communal rituals has long been a topic of interest to sociologists and anthropologists.  What draws people to a communal ritual like walking on hot coals is a topic of interest for, well, everyone.   We all are fascinated by it but few ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 3 2011 - 11:17am

A Mythology To Live By: Priscilla Gilman's Journey As A Special Needs Parent

In my American Literature course this semester, I worked to weave Joseph Campbell’s vision of the purpose of mythology throughout the pieces we read, to get students to consider the role that literature, in its many mediums, plays in providing the bedrock ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 4 2011 - 8:58pm

Autism Overdiagnosed Or Undiagnosed?

A community survey in England identified people with autism or asperger's syndrome  and found none of them knew they have it.    And autism turned out to be more prevalent in males with lower education and in government housing. Is autism causing peop ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2011 - 10:07am

The 1% Conversion Rule

How much are 1 million visitors worth?  In the midst of my bake sale for science, I am verifying the 1% rule.  Greg Stolze noted, why have 94 people 'liked' my fundraiser on Facebook, but only 30 people actually contributed?  I am 3/4th through t ...

Article - Project Calliope - May 10 2011 - 4:14pm

Cup Or Cuppa: You Decide If It's Half-Full Or Learning To Have A Positive Attribution Style

The opposing concepts of optimism and pessimism have a long history. Domino and Conway (2002) note that philosophers who viewed the cosmos as generally hospitable to life were optimistic, while those who viewed the cosmos as indifferent or hostile were pe ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 14 2011 - 1:22pm

War Games Treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

You'd think if you were adjusted to the horrors of war you'd be immune to concerns about seeing a therapist but some with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can't bring themselves to deal with it face-to-face. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 16 2011 - 1:14pm

'What's Your Sign?' No, Try 'Obama or Palin?' To Find A Mate

Astrology, like everything else from the 1970s except "The Godfather" movies (and maybe "Star Wars") is better left to the past.   It can't realy tell you anything at all about another person. However, a study in the Journal of Pol ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 19 2011 - 2:32pm