Psychology

The GOP Primary: A Predictable Storm

Who do you think will win the Republican presidential nomination? Obsession with this question possesses the entire United States. Today a brief search on Google for “GOP primary prediction” returned close to 40 million results. Over the past few months, t ...

Article - Michael W. Taft - Jan 13 2012 - 1:55am

Redefining Autism For DSM-V

Changes to the diagnostic definition of autism will be published in the fifth edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"- DSM V- but exactly what those changes will be is a key point of discussion. There are still a lo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 22 2012 - 7:53pm

How To Learn-- From Robert Bjork, Director Of UCLA Learning And Forgetting Lab

Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning. Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting La ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jan 28 2012 - 5:15pm

Teach Your Toddler Perfect Pitch: Diana Deutsch, President Of The Society For Music Perception And Cognition

Conventional wisdom holds you're born with perfect pitch or you're not. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Here's how to train perfect pitch. For my book Brain Trust, I interviewed Diana Deutsch, University of California San Diego professor ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jan 31 2012 - 11:19am

Hardwired For The Mystical?

The gap between atheists and the religious seems at times to be an impossible divide, almost as if believers and non-believers come from different species. What separates the secular from the sacred? An "Ask the Brains" question on the Scientific ...

Article - Michael W. Taft - Feb 8 2012 - 4:37pm

It's Valentine's Day: Give Us A Break

There's a joke that goes when a man gets married, his wife changes everything about him and then complains he's not the man she married. While it isn't entirely true, the sentiment goes both ways. So if your significant other makes a romanti ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2012 - 4:01am

Je Alarme! To Canadian Kids, Cows Are Boys And Cats Are Girls

A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology wanted to see whether speaking French (being bilingual) influenced how children assigned gender to objects. It y ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2012 - 2:44pm

Why Evolutionary Psychology Pisses You Off (And Why Maybe It Shouldn't)

If you want to irritate a lot of people at once, write an article about evolutionary psychology. Publishing such an article will invariably provoke a firestorm of denunciations and criticisms. Given the vehemence of these attacks, you couldn’t be blamed fo ...

Article - Michael W. Taft - Mar 2 2012 - 11:20pm

Book Review: Cindy Ariel's Loving Someone With Asperger's Syndrome

Part guidebook, part workbook, Ariel's book for neurotypical partners is sure to be considered a boon for spouses who know almost nothing about Asperger's Syndrome. Written by   Cindy Ariel, a licensed  psychologist  who provides therapy for a v ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Mar 3 2012 - 12:26pm

How to win hearts (votes) and approval in democracy?

If scientists could develop modelling system to predict the yield of a crop in particular area and time by calculating parameters of soil moisture, soil pH, rainfall, temperature range etc there should be some psychological method to gauze the mind of a vo ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 6 2012 - 1:06pm