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  • How we make our children depressed.
    How we make our children depressed.
    January 13, 2015 Comments Off on How we make our children depressed.

    Huffington Post

    More than half of the 47 preschoolers diagnosed with depression displayed pathological guilt, compared with 20 percent of the non-depressed preschoolers. The researchers found that the children with high levels of guilt, even if they weren’t depressed, had smaller anterior insula volume — which has been found to predict later occurrences of depression. Children with smaller insula volume in the right hemisphere, related to either depression or guilt, were more likely to have recurring episodes of clinical depression when they got older.

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  • Can we start our new year with some brain pushups?
    Can we start our new year with some brain pushups?
    January 2, 2015 Comments Off on Can we start our new year with some brain pushups?

    PuckerMob –

    Dr. Shamay-Tsoory further explained that “understanding other people’s state of mind and emotions is related to our ability to understand sarcasm.”

    Sarcasm seems to exercise the brain more than sincere statements do. Scientists who have monitored the electrical activity of the brains of test subjects exposed to sarcastic statements have found that brains have to work harder to understand sarcasm.

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  • Now can we quit fretting about gamers?
    Now can we quit fretting about gamers?
    November 22, 2014 Comments Off on Now can we quit fretting about gamers?

    Science Alert

    While the data did appear to show a link between an increase in violent video game consumption and a decrease in youth violence, just as it did for films after 1990, Ferguson is not prepared to say the result is anything other than a coincidence. But what he can say for sure is that while media violence is definitely being consumed more now than ever before, there is absolutely no clear evidence to link media violence with societal violence.

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  • There may be hope for this profession after all…
    There may be hope for this profession after all…
    November 16, 2014 Comments Off on There may be hope for this profession after all…

    First Look

    The top professional organization for psychologists is launching an independent investigation over how it may have sanctioned the brutal interrogation methods used against terror suspects by the Bush administration. The American Psychological Association announced this week that it has tapped an unaffiliated lawyer, David Hoffman, to lead the review.

    In 2002, the American Psychological Association (APA) revised its code of ethics to allow practitioners to follow the “governing legal authority” in situations that seemed at odds with their duties as health professionals.

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  • The gift of compassion
    The gift of compassion
    November 2, 2014 Comments Off on The gift of compassion

    Brain Pickings

    Everybody asks during and after our wars, and the continuing terrorist attacks all over the globe, “What’s gone wrong?” What has gone wrong is that too many people, including high school kids and heads of state, are obeying the Code of Hammurabi, a King of Babylonia who lived nearly four thousand years ago. And you can find his code echoed in the Old Testament, too. Are you ready for this?

    “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

    A categorical imperative for all who live in obedience to the Code of Hammurabi, which includes heroes of every cowboy show and gangster show you ever saw, is this: Every injury, real or imagined, shall be avenged.

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  • Why do we trust those who use us?
    Why do we trust those who use us?
    September 1, 2014 Comments Off on Why do we trust those who use us?

    PsyBlog

    People who are overconfident in their own abilities are considered more talented by others than they really are, a new study finds.

    These overconfident individuals are probably more likely to get promoted, to become the leaders of organizations and even nations.

    On the other hand, people who are not so confident in their abilities are judged as less competent than they actually are.

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  • So, are YOU meeting your goals?
    So, are YOU meeting your goals?
    July 17, 2014 Comments Off on So, are YOU meeting your goals?

    Psychology Today

    One inherent problem with goal setting is related to how the brain works. Recent neuroscience research shows the brain works in a protective way, resistant to change. Therefore, any goals that require substantial behavioural change, or thinking-pattern change, will automatically be resisted. The brain is wired to seek rewards and avoid pain or discomfort, including fear. When the fear of failure creeps into the mind of the goal setter, it becomes a “demotivator,” with a desire to return to known, comfortable behaviour and thought patterns.

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  • Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?
    Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?
    May 14, 2014 Comments Off on Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?

    Psychology Today

    The human sexual response cycle is thought to have four stages:

    Stage 1: Desire, which is defined as having a sexy thought or sexual fantasy that often occurs out of the blue or in response to a trigger such as seeing an attractive person, smelling an aromatic perfume, or watching a hot movie. Desire then prompts us to become sexually active.

    Stage 2: Arousal is the excitement we feel, the physiological changes in our bodies once we’re physically stimulated.

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  • Sex Sells?
    Sex Sells?
    December 15, 2013 Comments Off on Sex Sells?

    Time

    Women are turned off by sexually explicit images in advertisements. Unless that is, the item being advertised is very precious. And valuable. And rare. Like, maybe, a once a year type gift.

    At least, that’s the findings of a new study by an international group of marketing professors. Kathleen D. Vohs, Jaideep Sengupta and Darren W. Dahl used made-up advertisements for watches to test a theory in sexual economics that women want sex to be seen as something special, or at least not cheap. Sexual economic theory is “probably the least romantic theory about sex you’ll ever have learned,” says Vohs, who’s a researcher at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

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  • People are waking up!!!
    People are waking up!!!
    September 20, 2013 2 Comments on People are waking up!!!

    Huffingtonpost

    Why does the MBTI remain so popular in spite of these problems? Murphy Paul argues that people cling to the test for two major reasons. One is that thousands of people have invested time and money in becoming MBTI-certified trainers and coaches. As I wrote over the summer, it’s awfully hard to let go of our big commitments.

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