Psychology posts
- September 2, 2010
- 12:55 PM
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The Science of Sexism: Primate Behavior and the Culture of Sexual Coercion
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries in Exile
The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by The Intersection at Discover magazine.Despite the advances our society has made for women’s rights and sexual equality during the last century this example is just one more sign of how far we still have to go. It’s not an isolated incident. According to statistics compiled by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission there were 12,696 workplace sexual harassment cases filed in 2009 (which would be a fraction of the number that actuall........ Read more »
Martin N. Muller and Richard W. Wrangham. (2009) Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females. Harvard University Press. info:/
- September 2, 2010
- 12:14 PM
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How To Fight Loneliness
by Rob Mitchum in ScienceLife
Loneliness is bad for your health. The work of John Cacioppo and others has proven this connection repeatedly over the last decade, finding links between loneliness and blood pressure, sleep quality, dementia, gene expression, and many other medical measures. The evidence has built to the point that loneliness could be considered a serious risk factor [...]... Read more »
Masi CM, Chen HY, Hawkley LC, & Cacioppo JT. (2010) A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Loneliness. Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. PMID: 20716644
- September 2, 2010
- 11:33 AM
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Racial Bias of Adult Sensitivity to Infant Facial Care-Seeking Cues
by Michael Long in Phased
John Hodsoll (Queen Mary University, United Kingdom) and coworkers have shown that preferential adult attention to infant facial features is affected by the race of the infant relative to that of the adult, suggesting an influence of experience and environment. This news feature was written on September 2, 2010.... Read more »
Hodsoll, J., Quinn, K. A., & Hodsoll, S. (2010) Attentional Prioritization of Infant Faces Is Limited to Own-Race Infants. PLoS ONE, 5(9). info:/10.1371/journal.pone.0012509
- September 2, 2010
- 07:10 AM
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The woman whose new memories are erased each night
by Christian Jarrett in BPS Research Digest
Psychologists have documented what they believe to be a clinical first - the case of an amnesic woman whose memory for new material is erased each night that she goes to sleep (movie fans will recognise this as a plot device in the 2004 film 50 First Dates). Referred to as case FL, the woman developed these symptoms after she hit her head in a car accident in 2005, aged 48. Brain scans and neurological exams revealed no signs of brain damage, thus suggesting the woman is exhibiting what's known ........ Read more »
Smith, C., Frascino, J., Kripke, D., McHugh, P., Treisman, G., & Squire, L. (2010) Losing memories overnight: A unique form of human amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 48(10), 2833-2840. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.025
- September 1, 2010
- 03:17 PM
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Self-Righteousness and Kink: Perfect Together?
by David Berreby in Mind Matters
Props to my colleague Lindsay Beyerstein for this great catch yesterday: Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle's campaign received a donation from someone who listed her employer as "husband" and her occupation as "slave." Maybe it's just a joke (boring). Or maybe this couple is in one of those Christian "submitted wife" relationships (unlikely, given that "slave" isn't the sort of rhetoric that culture promotes). But maybe this is an "out" dominant/submissive couple. That shouldn't be a ........ Read more »
Benjamin Edelman. (2009) Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(1). DOI: 10.1257/jep.23.1.209
Zhong CB, & Liljenquist K. (2006) Washing away your sins: threatened morality and physical cleansing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1451-2. PMID: 16960010
Schnall S, Benton J, & Harvey S. (2008) With a clean conscience: cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 19(12), 1219-22. PMID: 19121126
- September 1, 2010
- 02:13 PM
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The Stress Symphony a Prelude to Neurogensis et Stress
by neurobites in Neurobites
Hi there! Been a long time eh? Not sure what happened there, but I blame Harry. Somehow, somewhere he was involved. So let’s just jump right into it Stress. Your reason for not calling your mother, a graduate student’s excuse for overeating, not sleeping, forgetting to hand in an abstract, walking into walls and lying [...]... Read more »
Bruce S. McEwen. (2007) Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain. Physiological Reviews, 873-904. info:/
- August 31, 2010
- 10:18 PM
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The Link Between Positive Psychology and Cancer Survival
by Walter Jessen in Highlight HEALTH
The seemingly common idea that a positive outlook will help someone in poor health is currently under scientific investigation. A special supplement of the Annals of Behavioural Medicine directly addressed this topic and a recent article in the Lancet explored the relationship between positive psychology and cancer pathology.... Read more »
Ondicova K, & Mravec B. (2010) Role of nervous system in cancer aetiopathogenesis. The lancet oncology, 11(6), 596-601. PMID: 20522385
- August 31, 2010
- 06:49 PM
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Are you high or low functioning? Examples from autism research
by Michelle Dawson in The Autism Crisis
If you are autistic and ever venture or are pushed into public, a near-certainty is that you will publicly be ranked and classified by total strangers. For example, you will be assigned to the "high end" or the "low end" of the autistic spectrum, according to whether you are claimed to have a good or bad outcome (I've been claimed to have both). Non-political observers may notice how ethically and scientifically problematic this is, but there are few discussions, formal or informal, in which aut........ Read more »
Akshoomoff N, Lord C, Lincoln AJ, Courchesne RY, Carper RA, Townsend J, & Courchesne E. (2004) Outcome classification of preschool children with autism spectrum disorders using MRI brain measures. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43(3), 349-57. PMID: 15076269
Annaz D, Karmiloff-Smith A, Johnson MH, & Thomas MS. (2009) A cross-syndrome study of the development of holistic face recognition in children with autism, Down syndrome, and Williams syndrome. Journal of experimental child psychology, 102(4), 456-86. PMID: 19193384
Farley MA, McMahon WM, Fombonne E, Jenson WR, Miller J, Gardner M, Block H, Pingree CB, Ritvo ER, Ritvo RA.... (2009) Twenty-year outcome for individuals with autism and average or near-average cognitive abilities. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2(2), 109-18. PMID: 19455645
Klin A, Saulnier CA, Sparrow SS, Cicchetti DV, Volkmar FR, & Lord C. (2007) Social and communication abilities and disabilities in higher functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorders: the Vineland and the ADOS. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 37(4), 748-59. PMID: 17146708
- August 31, 2010
- 06:15 PM
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… Sm;)e and whole Frontal Gyrus sm;)es with you
[Wherein our hero smiles, and the whole Frontal Gyrus (and parts of the Occiptal Gyrus) smile with him.] Given that I’m leaving the country tomorrow night and I’m cramming some major assignment pre-deadline, I have to keep this post light. Here’s a mind-map a colleague and I put together. It was tiny piece of assessment, [...]... Read more »
Ekman P, Hager JC, & Friesen WV. (1981) The symmetry of emotional and deliberate facial actions. Psychophysiology, 18(2), 101-6. PMID: 7220762
Kilts CD, Egan G, Gideon DA, Ely TD, & Hoffman JM. (2003) Dissociable neural pathways are involved in the recognition of emotion in static and dynamic facial expressions. NeuroImage, 18(1), 156-68. PMID: 12507452
- August 31, 2010
- 03:58 PM
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The Clinical Neuroscience iPad Library
by Bill Yates in Brain Posts
Carrying around a library of pdf files has now become easy with the introduction of the iPad and net book computers. It is now possible to keep a library of key references that can be accessed at the patient bedside for reference use. This brings up the question of what pdf files are most valuable for clinicians. I have spent some time thinking about this and elected to come up with a dozen suggestions. The criteria for selection included:Valuable for clinicians caring ........ Read more »
Nock MK, Hwang I, Sampson N, Kessler RC, Angermeyer M, Beautrais A, Borges G, Bromet E, Bruffaerts R, de Girolamo G.... (2009) Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. PLoS medicine, 6(8). PMID: 19668361
Davies P, & Koppel J. (2009) Mechanism-based treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 11(2), 159-69. PMID: 19585951
Hariri AR. (2009) The neurobiology of individual differences in complex behavioral traits. Annual review of neuroscience, 225-47. PMID: 19400720
Chew E, & Zafonte RD. (2009) Pharmacological management of neurobehavioral disorders following traumatic brain injury--a state-of-the-art review. Journal of rehabilitation research and development, 46(6), 851-79. PMID: 20104408
Fornaro M, & Martino M. (2010) Tinnitus psychopharmacology: A comprehensive review of its pathomechanisms and management. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 209-18. PMID: 20628627
- August 31, 2010
- 03:35 PM
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Measuring changes during graded exposure & acceptance treatment
by Adiemusfree in Healthskills: Skills for Healthy Living
I have been pondering about the best way to monitor ‘Matt’s progress during graded exposure therapy for his avoidance of activities involving back movement. I introduced you to Matt yesterday. He’s a ‘man’s man’, a real bloke who, for the past four years since he had surgery for a prolapsed disc, has avoided things like … Read more... Read more »
Wicksell, R., Lekander, M., Sorjonen, K., & Olsson, G. (2010) The Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale (PIPS) – Statistical properties and model fit of an instrument to assess change processes in pain related disability. European Journal of Pain, 14(7), 7710-2147483647. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2009.11.015
- August 31, 2010
- 12:17 PM
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Wolves Are Smart, but Dogs Look Back
by Jason Goldman in The Thoughtful Animal
Dogs are pretty smart. They can have huge vocabularies, they can infer meaning in the growls of other dogs, and they can effortlessly figure out if other dogs want to play or fight with them. But their intelligence might be limited to the social domain; indeed, while they outperform chimpanzees in social tasks, chimpanzees outperform them in many other tasks. And they might have developed their impressive social skills as merely an accident of natural and artificial selection.
Previous resear........ Read more »
Miklósi A, Kubinyi E, Topál J, Gácsi M, Virányi Z, & Csányi V. (2003) A simple reason for a big difference: wolves do not look back at humans, but dogs do. Current biology : CB, 13(9), 763-6. PMID: 12725735
- August 31, 2010
- 11:14 AM
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Rewriting Masculine Gender Scripts...
by Ultimo167 in Strong Silent Types
Gast and Peak (2010) think that 'masculine gender scripts' seriously frustrate men from seeking help for their health problems. ... Read more »
Gast J, & Peak T. (2010) "It Used to Be That if It Weren't Broken and Bleeding Profusely, I Would Never Go to the Doctor": Men, Masculinity, and Health. American journal of men's health. PMID: 20798142
- August 31, 2010
- 05:00 AM
- 42 views
How good are we at estimating other people's drunkenness?
by Christian Jarrett in BPS Research Digest
Sloshed, trollied, hammered, plastered. We've done a sterling job of inventing words for the inebriated state, but when it comes to judging from their behaviour how much a person has drunk, we could do (a lot) better. That's according to a review of the literature by US psychologist Steve Rubenzer.
We all have our trusted indices for judging other people's drunkenness. Perhaps it's when the eyeballs start floating about as if under the control of a clumsy puppeteer. Or maybe the effusive 'you k........ Read more »
Rubenzer, S. (2010) Judging intoxication. Behavioral Sciences . DOI: 10.1002/bsl.935
- August 30, 2010
- 01:01 PM
- 51 views
Serotonin, Psychedelics and Depression
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
Note: This post is part of a Nature Blog Focus on hallucinogenic drugs in medicine and mental health, inspired by a recent Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper, The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders, by Franz Vollenweider & Michael Kometer. That article will be available, open-access, until September 23. For more information on this Blog Focus, including a Table of Contents, please visit The Great Beyond.Neurophilosophy is covering the history o........ Read more »
Vollenweider FX, & Kometer M. (2010) The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 11(9), 642-51. PMID: 20717121
- August 30, 2010
- 12:58 PM
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Ketamine for Depression: Yay or Neigh?
by The Neurocritic in The Neurocritic
Venn diagram of psychoactive drugs [click for larger image]This post is part of a Nature Blog Focus on hallucinogenic drugs in medicine and mental health, inspired by a recent Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper, The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders, by Franz Vollenweider & Michael Kometer. This article will be available, open-access, until September 23. For more information on this Blog Focus, including a Table of Contents, please visit Th........ Read more »
Vollenweider, F., & Kometer, M. (2010) The neurobiology of psychedelic drugs: implications for the treatment of mood disorders. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(9), 642-651. DOI: 10.1038/nrn2884
- August 30, 2010
- 11:32 AM
- 38 views
Neuroscience of Murder and Aggression: Pharmacotherapy
by Bill Yates in Brain Posts
Davis Love--2010 PGA ChampionshipThis is the final post in the series titled: Neuroscience of Murder and Aggression. The other four posts can be found in the links below:Overview and TED video of Dr. FallonEpidemiologyGeneticsBrain ImagingThe treatment of antisocial personality disorder, aggressive behavior and violence receives a limited amount of research attention. Despite the public health implications of this problem, the therapeutic treatment options are limited. Clinicians are........ Read more »
Gibbon S, Duggan C, Stoffers J, Huband N, Völlm BA, Ferriter M, & Lieb K. (2010) Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 20556783
Khalifa N, Duggan C, Stoffers J, Huband N, Völlm BA, Ferriter M, & Lieb K. (2010) Pharmacological interventions for antisocial personality disorder. Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). PMID: 20687091
Pappadopulos E, Woolston S, Chait A, Perkins M, Connor DF, & Jensen PS. (2006) Pharmacotherapy of aggression in children and adolescents: efficacy and effect size. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , 15(1), 27-39. PMID: 18392193
Blader JC, Schooler NR, Jensen PS, Pliszka SR, & Kafantaris V. (2009) Adjunctive divalproex versus placebo for children with ADHD and aggression refractory to stimulant monotherapy. The American journal of psychiatry, 166(12), 1392-401. PMID: 19884222
- August 30, 2010
- 08:50 AM
- 41 views
Narcissistic College Students Spend More Time on Facebook
by Sandra K in World of Psychology
It probably comes as little surprise to anyone, but a small exploratory study done on 100 college students from a single university suggests that students who score higher on a test of narcissism also spent more time checking and updating their Facebook profile.
Facebook is currently the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. More than 50% of Facebook’s active users log on to Facebook in any given day, while the average user has 130 social connections (what Fac........ Read more »
Mehdizadeh S. (2010) Self-presentation 2.0: narcissism and self-esteem on Facebook. Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking_id, 13(4), 357-64.
- August 30, 2010
- 08:50 AM
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Narcissistic College Students Spend More Time on Facebook
by John M Grohol PsyD in World of Psychology - Psych Central
It probably comes as little surprise to anyone, but a small exploratory study done on 100 college students from a single university suggests that students who score higher on a test of narcissism also spent more time checking and updating their Facebook profile.
Facebook is currently the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. More than 50% of Facebook’s active users log on to Facebook in any given day, while the average user has 130 social connections (what Fac........ Read more »
Mehdizadeh S. (2010) Self-presentation 2.0: narcissism and self-esteem on Facebook. Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking_id, 13(4), 357-64.
- August 30, 2010
- 06:03 AM
- 47 views
Cephalopod Consciousness Part 3: The Case for Cephalopod Consciousness
Here it is, finally: the post you’ve been waiting for. Having already convinced you that you should care about the possibility of consciousness in cephalopods in Part 1 and having briefly outlined the state of research on consciousness in non-human animals in Part 2, I’ll get right down to it and discuss the possibility of [...]... Read more »
MATHER, J. (2008) Cephalopod consciousness: Behavioural evidence. Consciousness and Cognition, 17(1), 37-48. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2006.11.006
Edelman, D., & Seth, A. (2009) Animal consciousness: a synthetic approach. Trends in Neurosciences, 32(9), 476-484. DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2009.05.008
Young, J. (1991) Computation in the Learning System of Cephalopods. Biological Bulletin, 180(2), 200. DOI: 10.2307/1542389
Finn, J., Tregenza, T., & Norman, M. (2009) Defensive tool use in a coconut-carrying octopus. Current Biology, 19(23). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.052
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