Psychology

Emotions, Not Diet And Exercise, Top Obstacle To Successful Weight Loss, Say Psychologists

Doctors and scientists will rightly note that, in every study ever done on weight loss, 100% of participants who consumed fewer calories than they burned lost weight. Exercise helps in multiple ways, but in weight loss it helps burn the calories. A survey ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2013 - 11:26am

We Trust Brown Eyed People More Than Blue- Except...

People view brown-eyed faces as more trustworthy than those with blue eyes- unless the blue eyes belong to a man with a broad face, according to a new paper in PLOS ONE.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2013 - 6:30am

New Year's Resolutions: Food Will Fail Before Facebook

January 10th came and went last week. Did you notice? Perhaps you did if losing weight was part of your New Year's Resolution. Because chances are that by day 10 you were off the wagon. What could you give up for the entire year?  New survey results s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2013 - 2:07pm

Why People Sometimes Believe In Magic

Some people believe in magic. In S cience Left Behind, in the process of debunking claims that one American political party is overwhelmingly pro-science and one is anti-science,  we put a handy chart on page 213 itemizing the various anti-science position ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 25 2013 - 11:01am

Spanish Men Want Spanish Women To Be Thin More Than Spanish Women Do

While the cultural debate of nationalized health care is whether or not to let obese people and smokers die(1), a new paper in Spain says males are pressuring women to be thin and it is making females less happy. The psychologists also contend that women ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2015 - 11:52pm

Why Eastern Babies Are Potty-Trained Much Earlier Than Western

With greater wealth comes lesser need to worry about costs like diapers, it seems. Or Western parents don't know how to whistle. In the western world, babies now need diapers until an average of three years of age, nearly twice as long as 40 years ag ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2013 - 1:00pm

Coffee Addiction: Four A Day- Enemas, That Is

You might be a crackpot if you won't drink coffee because it is bad for your health, yet you are shoving it in your rectum multiple times per day.  "My Strange Addiction" on TLC this week has a story about a Florida couple who each have at l ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2013 - 3:22pm

Helping Or Helicoptering? Parental Dilemma About College Students

When is it time for parents to help and when it is time to back away? Since kids were having children of their own at age 18 a century ago it seems obvious that hovering over college-age students is not needed.  And a new paper in Journal of Child and Fam ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2013 - 5:19pm

Buy Generic Food Or Psychologists Will Call You A Republican

Some controversial modern psychologists claim that conservatives and liberals don't just differ in political ideology, correlation and causation is inferred in actual personality templates and even genetics- yes, that would mean Americans are evolvin ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 14 2013 - 11:00am

I'm Emotionally Distant And So Am I

Which is more important, feeling close to your romantic partner or whether you are as close as you want to be, even if that's really not close at all?  Outside the social sciences, the answer is obvious. But in social psychology, it is a paper in tim ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2013 - 2:35pm