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When a new TV seasons starts up and one of the hit shows is about sex addiction, suddenly everyone is focused on sexual addiction. “Look, a new disorder!” “Look, David Duchovny actually has it!” Like most other compulsive behavioral conditions, sexual addiction is not recognized […]
Ever wonder why your 8 year old can’t seem to learn from his mistakes when you tell him over and over again how he’s done something wrong?
It may be because their brains simply don’t react to negative feedback as teens’ and adults’ brains do. So says recent research published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Eight-year-old children […]
Did you know that if you spend time at social network websites like Facebook you might be a narcissist?
Of course not everyone who uses Facebook is one. A recent study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Buffardi and Cambell, 2008) found how social networking web sites such as Facebook can attract narcissists. Here […]
I spent last week on vacation in the countryside known for some of the best wines in all the world, outside of Bordeaux, France. International travel is such an eye-opening and rich cultural experience, I encourage anyone to do it sooner rather than later in one’s life, even if it’s not for very long or […]
Despite huge marketing and PR blunders for some pharmaceutical companies over the past few years (most notably Eli Lilly’s Laurel and Hardy cover-up of Zyprexa’s negative side effects), some of these companies seem to be having difficulty learning from past mistakes. Bad economy? Empty drug pipeline? I don’t know what the excuse is for their […]
Psychologists can be an odd bunch.
Some of their expertise comes in the understanding of complex psychological tests. Older tests used are called “projective” tests and while a few are still in use amongst the more psychodynamically-minded psychologists, most are not. Instead, most psychologists rely on more objective tests, such as the MMPI-2 or an […]
You’d think that as people become more and more educated about the complex biological, social and psychological factors that go to make up mental illness, people would become more understanding and less stigmatizing. As we are on the cusp of having a nationwide ban from discriminating in mental healthcare reimbursements, you’d think government and ordinary […]
After over a decade of struggling and aborted attempts, Congress passed a bill yesterday that provides for equal treatment of mental health, alcohol and substance abuse disorders, ending a decades-long practice of discrimination against these concerns by insurance companies and employers.
Although not quite done (funding still needs to be agreed-upon and it still needs the […]
Want to be a better consumer of social science research? Here’s a short crib sheet for determining the general legitimacy and generalizability of virtually any social science study. Keep in mind that this crib sheet is not going to be 100% accurate or relevant to apply to every study you might be reading about. But […]
I find a strange melancholic amusement to learn that many of these investment banks’ CEOs and boards of directors — people being paid millions of dollars every year to purportedly know what their own companies are doing and how they make money — didn’t have a clue as to how deep their companies were into […]
Sometimes social science comes up with some pretty interesting insights into inequalities in this world. And a new study that tracked over 12,000 people for 26 years has done just that.
The researchers in this study wondered how people’s attitudes toward gender roles might affect their earning potential and came to a surprising conclusion. The inequality […]
Despite the occasional mass media hype surrounding video game violence and teens, a new survey published by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation last Tuesday shows that not only do most teens and kids play video games, but by far it is a positive social action for them. This quote seems to capture […]
