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Very Sugary Diet Makes You Stupid - As we near the final year exams for schools and universities, students should be wary of powering up on buckets of soda and pocketfuls of candy bars. A UCLA study on rats suggests that fructose slows down the brain and memory functions. Too much sweetness can also prevent learning. The findings are published in Journal of Physiology and also show omega-3 fatty acids helping to negate the effect...
Resiliency During Early Years Can Protect Against Later Alcohol/Drug Use - Resiliency is a measure of a person's ability to flexibly adapt their behaviors to fit the surroundings in which they find themselves. Low resiliency during childhood has been linked to later alcohol/drug problems during the teenage years...
Women Seen As Objects, Not People In Sexualized Images - Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women's sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that both men and women see images of sexy women's bodies as objects, while they see sexy-looking men as people...
Religion Replenishes Self-Control - There are many theories about why religion exists, most of them unproven. Now, in an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Kevin Rounding of Queen's University, Ontario, offers a new idea, and some preliminary evidence to back it up...
Study Suggests Nature Walks Improve Cognitive Abilities For People With Clinical Depression - A walk in the park may have psychological benefits for people suffering from depression. In one of the first studies to examine the effect of nature walks on cognition and mood in people with major depression, researchers in Canada and the U.S. have found promising evidence that a walk in the park may provide some cognitive benefits...
The Brain's Neuronal Circuit Excitability May Be Altered By Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Lead To Brain Network Dysfunction - Even mild head injuries can cause significant abnormalities in brain function that last for several days, which may explain the neurological symptoms experienced by some individuals who have experienced a head injury associated with sports, accidents or combat, according to a study by Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers...
New Genetic Findings: Gifts Of The MAGI In Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder - These findings are not about the classic story of gift-giving, although the MAGI genes (officially named membrane associated guanylate kinase, WW and PDZ domain containing proteins) do influence brain function in important ways. MAGI1 and MAGI2 are genes that code for the MAGI proteins...
New Study Finds Military Marriages Are Not More Vulnerable To Divorce - Despite the fact that military service means working long hours with unpredictable schedules, frequent relocations, and separations from loved ones due to deployment, a new study published in the Journal of Family Issues (a SAGE journal) finds that marriages of military members are not more vulnerable than civilian marriages...
Neurotranmitters Identified That Lead To Forgetting - While we often think of memory as a way of preserving the essential idea of who we are, little thought is given to the importance of forgetting to our wellbeing, whether what we forget belongs in the "horrible memories department" or just reflects the minutia of day-to-day living...
Study Identifies Five Factors That Promote A Positive Body Image In Women - Women with high family support and limited pressure to achieve the 'thin and beautiful' ideal have a more positive body image. That's according to a new study looking at five factors that may help young women to be more positive about their bodies, in the context of a society where discontent with appearance is common among women. The work by Dr...

December 28, 2005

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December 27, 2005

Psychiatrist Implicated in Nazi Atrocities Dies

VIENNA, Austria — Dr. Heinrich Gross, a psychiatrist who worked at a clinic where the Nazis killed and conducted cruel experiments on thousands of children, died Dec. 15, his family announced Thursday. He was 90.
Gross, who was implicated in nine deaths as part of a Nazi plot to eliminate “worthless lives,” had escaped trial [...]

Stanford Prison Experiment

A Simulation Study of the
Psychology of Imprisonment
Conducted at Stanford University.
Welcome to the Stanford Prison Experiment web site, which features an extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment, including parallels with the recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, [...]

Research Randomizer

Filed under: North America, Psychology Resources, Research and Statistics — Admin @ 9:55 pm

This web site is designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions. Research Randomizer can be used in a wide variety of situations, including psychological experimentation, medical trials, and survey research. The program uses a JavaScript random number generator to produce customized [...]

November 27, 2005

Marxist guilt

Filed under: Terminology — Admin @ 11:08 am

Marxist guilt is the feeling of remorse, sin, or wrongdoing that relates to one’s acquisition or management of wealth; particularly when this capital-formation has occurred at the expense of others. It typically refers to the feeling of “sin” that some “haves” may feel when they compare themselves to the “have-nots”.
The “haves” atone for this Marxist [...]

The Psychology Behind Giving Thanks

Filed under: North America, Psychology of Religion — Admin @ 10:58 am

Interview With Dr. Paul Vitz
ARLINGTON, Virginia, NOV. 23, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The spirit of thanksgiving contributes to mental health and ultimately leads to God, says a Catholic psychologist.
Dr. Paul Vitz is a professor of psychology at the Arlington-based Institute for the Psychological Sciences and a professor emeritus of New York University. He has authored many books, [...]

Evolutionary Psychology is Here to Stay

Filed under: Evolutionary Psychology, North America — Admin @ 10:50 am

A Response to Buller
by Frank Miele from Skeptic magazine Vol. 12, No 1
“Adaptationism pervades every level of biological inquiry, and always has, because at every level descriptions of relevant phenomena are almost invariably functional descriptions. The only scientifically coherent account of the origin of adaptations, and hence the only scientifically coherent [...]

November 24, 2005

PSYCHOLOGY: Guilt and the earthquake —Humair Hashmi

Filed under: Asia, Social Psychology — Admin @ 10:58 am

The “haves” atone for this guilt by contributing towards the welfare of the “have-nots”, adopting the role of “benevolent givers”. The benevolence of Alfred Nobel, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and many others, can be viewed from this angle
The way people have offered help and assistance to those hit by the October 8 earthquake has been [...]

Stress raises lipid level

Filed under: Asia, Psychology of Health — Admin @ 10:50 am

BEIJING, Nov. 24 — A new study by the American Psychological Association has found that mental stress over a period of time can raise a person’s lipid levels, or in other words, it can increase cholesterol levels in healthy adults.
According to the study, published in the recent issue of Health Psychology, [...]

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