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Archive for September, 2008

Is Sexual Addiction Real?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

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 ...

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Why Your Eight Year Old Might Not Learn From His Mistakes

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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 ...

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Facebook Scams of Narcissists

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

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 ...

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Vive la France!

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

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 ...

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Misleading Drug Ads: Lilly, J&J, Shire

Friday, September 26th, 2008

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 ...

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Rorschach Inkblot Cards

Friday, September 26th, 2008

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 ...

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Discriminating Against People with Mental Illness

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

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 ...

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Congress Passes Historic Mental Health Parity Bill

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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 ...

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Is the Research Any Good?

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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 ...

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Dealing with Uncertain Economic Times

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

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 ...

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Think Women Belong in the Home? You Likely Earn More

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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 ...

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It’s Alright: Teens Playing Video Games

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

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 ...

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