Psychology

Physical Strength And Political Conservatism Co-Evolved, Say Social Scientists

If you are physically strong, social science scholars believe they can predict whether or not you are more conservative than other men. This might seem obvious. Fitness takes a lot of individual initiative, the government can do all of the outreach progra ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2013 - 5:51pm

Climate Change- Emotions Run High Among College Undergraduates Taking Surveys

There's no awareness issue in climate change- almost no one on the planet hasn't heard of it or lacks an opinion. 62% of Americans believe global warming is happening- which means 38% do not. Like evolution or anti-science beliefs about genetic ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2013 - 5:16pm

Women Have 40% More Mental Health Issues, But The Gender Gap Will Soon Disappear

Dr. Daniel Freeman, professor of clinical psychology at Oxford, has good news if you believe women are more nuts than men: there is a 40% chance you are right. We know that discussing biological differences between men and women is taboo- men and women are ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 23 2013 - 12:55pm

Psychology Students Lie About Sex To Match Gender Expectations

Psychology students, male and female, lie about their sexual behavior to match the cultural expectations of how they perceive other students believe men or women should act – even though they wouldn't distort other gender-related behaviors, a new pap ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2013 - 12:58pm

When We Hear A Baby Cry, There Are Gender Variations In Brain Activity

Researchers behind a new paper say women's brains appear to be hard-wired to respond to the cries of a hungry infant. They asked men and women to let their minds wander, then played a recording of white noise interspersed with the sounds of an infant ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2013 - 7:30am

Weather Conditions Do Not Affect Fibromyalgia Pain Or Fatigue

Fibromyalgia affects up to 2% of the U.S. population, mostly older women. What is it? No one really knows, it is a blanket term for symptoms like widespread pain, unexplained fatigue, headaches, and sleep disturbances. What causes it? No one knows but sel ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2013 - 1:30pm

Atheists Find Comfort In Faith Too: Belief In Science

Studies have shown that religious people are actually helped by faith in stressful situations. Oxford University psychologists suggest atheists are also helped by belief during times of crisis; the explanatory and revealing power of science increases in t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2013 - 5:19pm

Psychologists Study How To Create Better Soldiers But Fewer War Crimes

Combat troops must minimize the 'human-ness' of their enemies in order to kill them, they can't be effective fighters if they're distracted by feelings of empathy for opponents. But if the opponent is dehumanized, which entails seeing ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2013 - 12:08pm

Intellectual Hubris: Despite Errors, People Remain Overly Confident In Their Knowledge

Overprecision, excessive confidence in the accuracy of our knowledge, can have profound consequences in various ways, making people intolerant of dissenting views,  leading physicians to gravitate too quickly to a diagnosis or inflating investors' va ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2013 - 3:42pm

Like World War Z Or Justin Bieber? Thank Evolution

If you watch musicals from the 1950s or teen comedies from the 1990s, you find a lot of movies with different titles but the themes and plotlines barely change; two friends competing for a girl in the former or some teen wants to improve another teen, who ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2013 - 1:10pm