Psychology
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HARROGATE, England, March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest survey of its kind in the UK provides insight into just how teenagers and parents perceive teenagers with acne. The results of the survey confirm that teenagers with acne are consistently perceived very differently as compared to teenagers without acne. Respondents generally felt that teenagers with acne would be less sociable and less successful. Teenagers with acne suggested that they would offer a lot in return for not having acne; one in two teenagers would stay off facebook for a year if they could get rid of their acne…
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The past few years have seen a decline in the percentage of Americans who believe what scientists say about climate science.
The science community shares some of the blame, obviously; the IPCC made rookie errors in its recent assessment and even intentionally included non-science results as data, and the so-called "Climategate" emails showed scientists weren't always out to promote science as much as they were out to stick it to opponents, behavior just like every other field where humans work.
But human fallibility is what it is and we didn't stop driving cars because executives…
Losing virginity can improve your self-image, according to Penn State researchers - if you are a college-age male. On average, college-age males become more satisfied with their appearance after first intercourse while college-age females become less satisfied.
Overall the researchers found that women became happier with their physical appearance from first to fourth year in college, and men became less satisfied with their appearance over the same time period. However, the researchers found the opposite directly after students had sex for the first time; males were more satisfied…
Infants and toddlers can suffer serious mental health disorders, yet are unlikely to receive treatment that could prevent lasting developmental problems, according to an analysis in American Psychologist.
Contrary to traditional beliefs that infants cannot have mental health problems "because they lack mental life," even young infants can react to the meaning of others' intentions and emotions because they have their own rudimentary intentions and motivating emotions, according to an article by Ed Tronick, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts and Marjorie Beeghly, Ph.D., from Wayne…
In the category of "Duh?" for the week, we have a new article from France looking at how parental beliefs regarding autism dictate treatment choices. Dardennes et al. (2011) put 78 parents through a questionnaire called "the Lay-Beliefs about Autism Questionnaire (LBA-Q; Furnham&Buck, 2003). This questionnaire explores beliefs regarding the etiology and treatment of autism. LBA-Q’s authors considered two main academic theories of the possible causes and treatment of autism: the psychogenic model and the biomedical model" (Dardennes et al.).
This latest journal article is a further…
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LONDON, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The age of antisocial media is upon us. A recent online MyDestinationInfo.com survey, conducted by YouGov, revealed that 30% of UK holidaymakers who use a portable multimedia device update their Facebook status when on holiday, while 26% check their social feeds and 8% tweet (of those holidaymakers updating Facebook, women are busiest: 35% compared to 25% of men).
Even more startlingly, 48% of the holiday-making technology generation (those aged 16-24) use their devices to update their Facebook status when on holiday, while 43% check social…
A few days ago Semperoper Ballett had its second special performance as part in the project "On the move". They play with new and adapted choreography at various places in the city of Dresden that are not "opera-like". Taking the audience into foreign spaces of emotional experience, knowledge encounters, just new experiences on both sides: the dancers and the audience alike!
"Silent Spring", the second performance of Semperoper Ballett in the cycle "On the Move" where the Semperoper Ballett performs at different venues outside their "normal playground" has been on tonight.
Eager to…
Some researchers have wondered why a few credibility issues in particular studies (see Marc Hauser in psychology and parts of the IPCC report in 2007 and anything at all related to cold fusion in physics) would damage the image of researchers across an entire discipline. It's plain old psychology.
Positive evidence can instead be a negative - if it's weak. When it's weak, positive evidence is worse than no evidence at all, according to results from Brown University psychologists.
They call the phenomenon "the weak evidence effect."
Consider the following statement: "…
Despite what some sociologists want you to believe, it isn't always men doing the objectification of women. At least on Facebook, some women go out of their way to be noticed.
The millenia-old contention that women care more about their appearance and use it in competition is still alive in the digital age. A new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking contends that females who base their self worth on their appearance tend to share more photos online and maintain larger networks on online social networking sites.
Its purpose was to investigate…
In New York City, you can easily date a different person within a mile of your home for the rest of your life and never come close to duplicating - and that may be why people in New York City have trouble finding relationships, according to a study in Psychological Science.
When people have a large number of potential dating partners to select from, say psychologist Alison Lenton of the University of Edinburgh and economist Marco Francesconi of the University of Essex, they respond by paying attention to different types of characteristics – discarding social attributes such as education…