The word of the year seems to be “entitled.” Get a group of older adults together and you’ll hear a fair amount of grumbling about the self-centeredness and selfishness of the 20- and 30-somethings. They’re ...

I have now heard it said by a few different people: Facebook is over. The social networking tool that the world fell in love with has become so thoroughly embraced that it is ...

We've been indexing and reviewing online resources since 1992, beginning with Internet newsgroups in psychology and support topics (like support groups for depression). In 1995, we expanded my efforts to include websites and in 1996, ...

Since the advent of the Web in the early 1990s, tens of thousands of consumer-oriented mental health Web sites have been created. Over 12 million results come up in the Google search engine when searching ...

Neurofeedback is a relatively new biofeedback technique that focuses on helping a person train themselves to directly affect brain function. Although it sounds like science-fiction in nature, it's actually a reputable and scientifically-proven technique practiced ...

Americans are increasingly likely to attribute their own — and others' — behavior to innate biological causes. At best that may relieve guilt about behavior we want to change but can't. The quest for genetic ...

Brain imaging techniques allow doctors and researchers to view activity or problems within the human brain, without invasive neurosurgery. There are a number of accepted, safe imaging techniques in use today in research facilities and ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, is a technique for measuring brain activity. It works by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity – when a brain ...

While it has long been suspected that video games can cause problems in a person's life if they play them for too long, too often, more recent research confirms that video games do have ...

As cellphones have become prevalent in modern society, some people have a significant issue with not being able to disengage from their cell phone. So-called "smart phones," which combine functionality of an organizer, browsing the ...

Are we prepared for a future alongside robots? Robots are no longer just science fiction; they are real, and this is an area where views regarding fact and fiction are particularly confused. How will they affect ...

Most people gain value from reading reviews about products and videos and such online. We read a review of a book on Amazon.com and believe we can trust most of the reviews to provide a ...

We all know reality from fiction, and we would all like to think we recognize “information” when we see it. But do we really? The world of Web 2.0 is making such differentiation increasingly difficult, as ...

The popularity of online communities has never been stronger, with the growth of new groups (such as YouTube) skyrocketing past those of old. But sometimes people and companies confuse what makes a popular community, well, ...

There's a lot of discussion about love, happiness and contentment on university campuses, but much of it is coming from academic researchers in their labs, not romantically inclined college students on the lawns. More importanty, much ...