Psychology
At the recent Academy of Neurology Congress, scholars reported that among 1,034 people recruited from 35 countries via an online crowdsourcing platform asked if they'd ever had an Near Death Experience, 289 answered 'yes.' When were asked for more details, using a 16 point questionnaire called the Greyson Near-Death Experience Scale, 106 reached a threshold of 7 on the Greyson NDE Scale. Some 55 percent perceived the their feeling as truly life-threatening.
Among respondents, 73 percent who claimed a near death experience said it was unpleasant, but those with a score of 7 or above on the…
Doctors, like scientists, often aren't big on putting themselves into stories and getting selfies with patients, or even accepting pictures as part of care. But selfies are a part of modern culture, and that means they are empowering to patients, so allowing pictures from patients and parents of patients may streamline health care and also keep costs lower.Former medical photographer Dr. Kara Burns conducted the research as part of her Ph.D. program and first interviewed 30 patients, clinicians, and carers. Then she created a pilot study with parents taking photos of their children's…
Bystander apathy is a social psychological construct where it is believed that someone who sees a victim is less likely to offer help when other people are present. They say it is proportional to the number of bystanders, the more people around not helping the less likely anyone will help.
It became a popular idea in pop culture, and therefore made its way into social psychology, after the 1964 case of Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old woman who was raped and murdered in Queens, New York.
A New York Times reporter claimed 38 people witnessed it and though that turned out to be a fabrication,…
If you have a large picture and you want people to focus on certain aspects of it, you frame it in such a way the eyes are drawn to it.
It's no different in media. Though journalists try to be objective each news outlet has self-selection bias, determined by advertisers and subscribers. If you are going to be a journalist at Fox News or the New York Times, there will be a hidden values test you must pass, even if editors and hiring groups are not aware they do it.
This framing results in definable changes in public perception, according to frame-by-frame analyses of coverage…
While no one knows that causes posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), because it is a blanket term for anything that can be deemed "trauma", one thing is clear: United States Veterans seeking treatment for PTSD as a population are at increased statistical risk of death compared with the general public.
Veterans with PTSD are twice as likely to die from suicide, viral hepatitis due to drug use, and even accidents than the general population.
The paper is retrospective cohort study to identify the leading causes of death among 491,040 Veterans who initiated PTSD treatment at any…
Some parents with a lesbian, gay or bisexual child report just as much struggle to adjust two years after the fact as they did when they first learned of their child's sexual orientation, according to a recent survey. That has nothing to do with caring for their child, most do, but it informs how to make the adjustment easier for everyone involved.
"Two years is a very long time in the life of a child who is faced with the stress of a disapproving or rejecting parent,"says David Huebner, PhD, MPH, associate professor of prevention and community health at the George Washington University…
Social psychologists say we send out social cues not just with our facial expressions, but with the tilt of our heads as well.
An otherwise neutral expression looks more dominant when the head is tilted down. The authors speculate that is because tilting one's head downward leads to the artificial appearance of lowered and V-shaped eyebrows--which elicit perceptions of aggression, intimidation, and dominance.
But why does looking like a serial killer seem more dominant than someone with their head tilted back, a pose usually regarded as more confident? Dominant means something different…
Dog owners insist that 'all dogs are puppies', which means our beliefs about their cuteness are not conditional on age, but a paper in Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of People and Animals, suggests otherwise. The authors found that dogs' attractiveness to humans peaks at roughly eight weeks, the same point in time at which their mother weans them and leaves them to fend for themselves.
The motivation of the paper was when psychologist Clive Wynne of Arizona State University's Canine Science Collaboratory visited the Bahamas and saw packs of wild dogs running free…
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From herbicides to vaccines to pollution, there is a science consensus but there are still pockets of people who refuses to accept them. They are bolstered by disinformation campaigns. When it comes to food or what car to drive, the difference is higher cost or kicking the pollution can down the road for future generations to solve, but vaccine denial is harming people with immune issues right now.
Surveys won't solve that but they can at least point to solutions. You may be skeptical and you are not wrong. On surveys few people admit to being anti-vaccine even though a few years ago…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says autism diagnoses went up 43 percent from 2010 to 2014 in New Jersey, which uses research by Rutgers University, shows a significant increase in the percentage of 4-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder in New Jersey.The study found the rate increased 43 percent from 2010 to 2014 in the state.The report, released April 11, found that about one in 59 children has autism. New Jersey's rate was the highest of the states studied: one in 35. That puts the national rate of autism at 1.7 percent of the childhood population and New Jersey's…