Psychology

Here is a diet plan that requires no special meal purchases or even exercise, it just requires a willingness to believe that correlation-causation arrows fly backwards. People, especially women, who read food labels are thinner. The results of surveys on ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2012 - 10:22am

Advertising Drone: People Ignore Messages Of Candidates In Opposing Parties

Did Sen. Barack Obama buy the election of 2008, given that he bypassed public financing and so was able to raise and spend twice as much money as Sen. John McCain? In 2012, the concern is the high spending by PACs but the playing field is level, both camp ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2012 - 12:50pm

Why Physicians Are Abandoning General Practice

Doctors don't want to be general care physicians, they want to specialize, and it is a problem that will only get worse because it involves money. Primary care physicians are at the heart of health care in the United States, they are the first to diag ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2012 - 11:46am

On Facebook, Women Are More Plentiful But Men Are Better Ad Targets

Global digital marketing companies Resolution Media and Kenshoo Social published a new report today called "Social Media Insights: Men are Cheap" which claims gender differences in Facebook advertising campaigns and offers actionable guidance to ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 29 2012 - 2:30pm

Why Do Female Republican House Members Look More Like Women?

The more conservative a female House of Representatives lawmaker is, the more likely she is to look like a woman, according to a UCLA analysis. Heteronormative gender bias, right? Stupid GOP likes 1950s stereotypes. Maybe. The GOP wears ties too, and it� ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2012 - 6:30pm

College Undergraduates Disempowered By The Pressure Of Having To Be Sexually Empowered

There is a common belief that men are empowered sexually. Men know this is silly, of course. It is women who decide each day if they want to have sex or not, not men. It's in college that young men learn this lesson. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2012 - 9:16pm

Political Independents Are Most Racist, Says Psychologist

While rabid Democrats charge Republicans with racism and rabid Republicans do the same to Democrats, the least partisan people and therefore most independent are really the most likely to use race as a criterion, according to a new survey. While a Republi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2012 - 9:17pm

Gambler Psychology: Near-Misses Are Frustrating Losses Rather Than Near-Wins

Gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins, and that frustration stimulates the reward systems in the brain to promote continued gambling, which may contribute to addictive gambling behavior. Analyses to date have shown tha ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2012 - 12:31pm

Recession Has Been Hardest On Men's Mental Health

The economic downtown that began in 2008 has been hardest on the mental health of men in England- yet it isn't the actual unemployment and falling household income the authors blame. They blame the threat of losing their jobs in a society that places ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2012 - 6:30pm

Cyberbullying Does Not 'Cause' Teen Suicide

While it makes for convenient mainstream media news pieces to draw convenient lines between cyber-bullying and suicide and thus declare that ending bullying would end suicides, it's not so simplistic, notes research from the American Academy of Pediat ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2012 - 10:13am