Latest science news in Psychology & Sociology
Peru mahogany decision highlights overlooked timber proposals at CITES
Beyond the headline-grabbing proposals on bluefin tuna and ivory trade, the largest wildlife trade convention meeting this week will also address several timber-related issues - an often overlooked responsibility of...
Video: Text Messages That Self-Destruct
Shira Lazar talks to Jeffrey Evans who began Tiger Text, a texting application that allows the sender to control the lifespan of their text messages.
Different signal paths for spontaneous and deliberate activation of memories
Entirely different signal paths and parts of the brain are involved when you try to remember something and when you just happen to remember something, prompted by a smell, a...
Exercising just got easier for busy people, study shows
HAMILTON, CANADA: MARCH 11, 2010 ?If you're the type of person who invokes the "not enough time" clause when it comes to exercising, it's time to find a new excuse.
Simon Singh: This is goodbye
Being sued for libel is not only ruinously expensive, writes Simon Singh, it takes over your whole life. Which is why this is his last columnAlmost a year after writing my first...
Why surprises temporarily blind us
Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your...
Acceptance of human evolution investigated
MINNEAPOLIS, March 11 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a recent study suggests high school and college students' perceptions of Earth's age influence their acceptance of human evolution.
Video Games Probably Make Kids Dumber, Study Claims
Some studies suggest that video gaming can improve vision and enhance information processing abilities. But that may be total nonsense, according to a study that examined the short-term effects of...
Gadgets: ChargeHub, Imation Pro WX External HDD, Black OPS Gaming PC
Multiple family members with multiple electronic gadgets result in multiple chargers. Teleadapt's solves the problem with the ChargeHub charging solution.
Why do women identify themselves as victims of childhood sexual abuse?
Sociologist Jo Woodiwiss argues that a pervasive self-help culture has led women to look to the past for the causes of their troubles, sometimes inferring childhood sexual abuse from no more than...
New social network is like Twitter with a twist
If you're just getting comfortable with Facebook and Twitter, you might want to brace yourself: Foursquare, the hottest among a rising new class of social networks, is gaining ground.
Conan chooses teen's tweets
Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 - as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and...
Dogs That Detect Bedbugs
Bedbug-sniffing dogs are the new and furry front line in an escalating domestic war.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity On Display
For the first time, the complete, original manuscript of the theory of relativity, profoundly human and surprisingly moving to examine, has been put on display in Jerusalem.
Obama Gets Tough on Health Care Fraud
The president said he would unleash auditors in a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid waste and fraud, a move to please both liberals and conservatives.
Mets’ Blackley Battles A.D.D., and Fights for Baseball Future
Travis Blackley, a relief pitcher from Australia who is trying to earn a spot on the Mets’ roster, has attention deficit disorder.
Link between brain chemical, cognitive decline in schizophrenia demonstrated
In one of the first such studies involving human patients with schizophrenia, researchers have provided evidence that deficits in a brain chemical may be responsible for some of the debilitating...
The scientific brain: Human brain processes predictable sensory input in particularly efficient manner
(PhysOrg.com) -- It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists....
Hot Topics And Mental Intertia
Bad habits of ineffective science: Trends in Biochemical Sciences has a piece on Mental inertia in the biological sciences. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but the...
Cyberbullying Rampant for Lesbian and Gay Teens
Children and teens are being cyberbullied through the Internet in chat rooms, on social networking websites, via email and even through cell phones.
Video: New Media's Leaders of Tomorrow
The Alliance for Youth Movements is holding it's international summit in London this week, as the global leaders of tomorrow are learning and using new media technologies from some of...
Temporary hearing deprivation can lead to 'lazy ear'
Scientists have gained new insight into why a relatively short-term hearing deprivation during childhood may lead to persistent hearing deficits, long after hearing is restored to normal. The research reveals...
Confidence is key to gauging impressions we make
The gift of "seeing ourselves as others see us" is particularly beneficial when we judge how we've made a first impression -- in a job interview, during a sales pitch...
Could Porn Be Good For Society?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The arguments against pornography are many, ranging from insistence that porn degrades women and is morally reprehensible to the assertion that pornography viewing is the cause of sex...
Inhibited SK Channels May Explain Relapse In Alcoholics
University of California, San Francisco researchers have uncovered a crucial mechanism that encourages alcohol consumption after extended abstinence. Previous work has suggested that people, places, and objects associated with alcohol use...
Chicken's split sex identity revealed
Half-male, half-female fowl explain sex determination.
Animal suicide sheds light on human behavior
Whether it's a grieving dog, a depressed horse or even a whale mysteriously beaching itself, there is a long history of animals behaving suicidally, behavior that can help explain human...
Mental Illness: A Personal Perspective...continued
My personal beef, isn't with psychiatrists, clinical psychologists or mental health workers per se. Most of the psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers that I have known, for the most part,...