Psychology

Requiem for Humanity — Predestination

PREDESTINATION ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 7 2012 - 3:14pm

Requiem for Humanity — Human Instincts

HUMAN INSTINCTS ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 8 2012 - 5:53pm

This Is The Song That Never Ends: Facilitated Communication

Yesterday, I  wrote a post  about how facebook is a rapid, easy way to spread misinformation and pseudoscience, and the difficulties in figuring out how to respond to pseudoscience when you see it. I wasn't specific about what triggered it, but I reac ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Mar 26 2012 - 10:21am

Can Getting Drunk Make You More Conservative?

Wait, a study claims drinking alcohol makes you less likely to throw cultural caution to the wind and spend stupidly? Does. Not. Compute. Unless it's social psychology, but even then no one is believing it unless they are one of the people writing abo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 26 2012 - 8:50pm

As Death Nears, Atheists Less Likely To Deny Religion

Atheists like to think they are more rational people but, as death approaches, they secretly play the irrational odds, according to n ew work which suggests that when even non-religious people think about their own death and consciously still seem to be mo ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2012 - 11:30am

You Knew This: ADD And ADHD Over-Diagnosed

What  the public and even experts suspected is now supported by representative data collected by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and University of Basel: ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, has been over-diagnosed. New studies show ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2012 - 11:55pm

Misperception And Weight Loss: If You Don't Think You Are Fat, You Won't Lose Weight

Self-esteem programs have worked.  Of 3,500 college applicants, more than a third couldn't report their weight accurately. The heavier they were, the less accurate their estimates. Overweight and obese men were even more likely to underestimate their ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2012 - 10:00pm

Cyberbullies Say At Least We Are Not Real Bullies

Cyberbullies don't feel like they are the same as physical bullies.  Some new research agrees, and for that reason anti-bullying campaigns need to be optimized for the Internet. Traditional bullying, the 'schoolyard' kind of bullying, is oft ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2012 - 1:30pm

Serotonin: Anti-Depressants Likely Do More Harm Than Good

Commonly prescribed anti-depressants appear to be doing patients more harm than good, say researchers who have published a paper examining the impact of the medications on the entire body. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2012 - 4:30pm

Can texting be permanently harming our culture?

Teenage youngsters around the world are rapidly evolving their communication habits with peers. This modern form of communications bypasses the 70,000 years of gene-culture coevolution that developed our syntatic cultural innovations from early man. Recent ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - May 4 2012 - 3:16pm