Psychology posts
- October 26, 2009
- 05:25 PM
- 1,464 views
Republican Losers Have Lower Testosterone
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries
In a new understanding of the term power grab, researchers have shown that the supporters of a political candidate literally have their power taken from them after they lose an election. In a new study by Steven J. Stanton and colleagues in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, researchers asked 163 Republican and Democratic voters (57 of whom were men) to provide saliva samples both before and after the 2008 election between John McCain and Barack Obama. What the researchers determined was that R........ Read more »
Stanton, S., Beehner, J., Saini, E., Kuhn, C., & LaBar, K. (2009) Dominance, Politics, and Physiology: Voters' Testosterone Changes on the Night of the 2008 United States Presidential Election. PLoS ONE, 4(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007543
- October 26, 2009
- 04:24 PM
- 762 views
Barack Obama Boosts Testosterone
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
But only if you voted for him, and only if you're a man. That's according to a PLoS One paper called Dominance, Politics, and Physiology.It's already known that in males, winning competitions - achieving "dominance" - causes a rapid rise in testosterone release, whilst losing does the opposite. That's true in humans, as well as in other mammals. The authors wondered whether the same thing happens when men "win" vicariously - i.e. when someone we identify with triumphs.What better way of testing........ Read more »
Stanton, S., Beehner, J., Saini, E., Kuhn, C., & LaBar, K. (2009) Dominance, Politics, and Physiology: Voters' Testosterone Changes on the Night of the 2008 United States Presidential Election. PLoS ONE, 4(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007543
- October 26, 2009
- 02:33 PM
- 840 views
It was a piece of cake! Hypnosis for sleep and tummy pain
by Adiemusfree in Healthskills: Skills for Healthy Living
After briefly looking at hypnosis yesterday, I found this lovely case study written by Leora Kuttner of an 11 year old girl with problems going off to sleep, including tummy pain and anxiety.
The girl had been through CBT, and introduced to the idea that she had a ‘worry bug’, and that the way to rid [...]... Read more »
Kuttner, L. (2009) CBT and hypnosis: the worry-bug versus the cake. Contemporary Hypnosis, 26(1), 60-64. DOI: 10.1002/ch.375
- October 26, 2009
- 12:31 PM
- 716 views
Autism, Schizophrenia and CNV in 16p11.2
by sandygautam in The Mouse Trap
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There is a letter published in the advance online edition of Nature Genetics, that reports that microduplication of genes in the region 16p11.2 are associated with the risk of schizophrenia in a large cohort. It has been earlier shown that microdeletions in the same region confer the risk of Autism.Thus, it seems [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
Related posts:CNVs and Autism/ Schizophrenia I had been meaning to comment on a recent paper...Autism and Schizophrenia........ Read more »
McCarthy, S., Makarov, V., Kirov, G., Addington, A., McClellan, J., Yoon, S., Perkins, D., Dickel, D., Kusenda, M., Krastoshevsky, O.... (2009) Microduplications of 16p11.2 are associated with schizophrenia. Nature Genetics. DOI: 10.1038/ng.474
- October 26, 2009
- 06:55 AM
- 703 views
The upside of depression
by Andrew Lyons in The Psych Student
A look at the research findings of Paul Andrew and Anderson Thomson, Jr. into the evolutionary uses of depression and current treatments which see it as a disorder.
I’m interested in this as it points to something I think needs addressing in our culture, where constant happiness is often seen as the gold standard of wellbeing.... Read more »
Andrews, P., & Thomson, J. (2009) The bright side of being blue: Depression as an adaptation for analyzing complex problems. Psychological Review, 116(3), 620-654. DOI: 10.1037/a0016242
- October 26, 2009
- 04:46 AM
- 861 views
Young children's moral understanding more sophisticated than previously thought
by Christian Jarrett in BPS Research Digest
When her Daily Mail column about Stephen Gately's death provoked an avalanche of complaints, the disgraced Jan Moir issued a press statement in which she said "it was never [her] intention" to upset people. Defensively speaking, Moir's choice of words was astute. In judging moral responsibility, we adults focus almost exclusively on intention rather than outcome. Stated starkly, the person who deliberately attempts to kill an innocent, but fails, is judged as more evil than the person who accide........ Read more »
Nobes G, Panagiotaki G, & Pawson C. (2009) The influence of negligence, intention, and outcome on children's moral judgments. Journal of experimental child psychology, 104(4), 382-97. PMID: 19740483
- October 25, 2009
- 04:59 PM
- 1,225 views
Hypnosis for chronic pain management: How it works maybe?
by Adiemusfree in Healthskills: Skills for Healthy Living
There are plenty of people who look at me as if I’m stepping right into woowoo when I start to talk about hypnosis for managing chronic pain. I’m happy to say that science has provided some good evidence that not only does hypnosis have a neurophysiological basis, but it also has some good effect.
What [...]... Read more »
Jensen, M. (2009) Hypnosis for chronic pain management: A new hope. Pain. DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.027
- October 25, 2009
- 11:22 AM
- 641 views
A brief history of autism
by sandygautam in The Mouse Trap
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A mouse trap reader, using skribit, asked me to write a blog post about the history of madness; that is a dauting task, as she herself mentioned that Foucault wrote an entire book on the subject; so though I promise to write that post, in the meantime here is a post about the history of [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
Related posts:Autism:a cognitive style and not a deficit Continuing with the theme of my last post, I’ll like...Autism: difference ........ Read more »
Kanner L. (1968) Autistic disturbances of affective contact. Acta paedopsychiatrica, 35(4), 100-36. PMID: 4880460
- October 23, 2009
- 07:45 PM
- 720 views
HYPERGRAPHIA, the movie
by The Neurocritic in The Neurocritic
A proto-Live Journal moment from The Inman diary: a public and private confession, Volume 2. By Arthur Crew Inman. Edited by Daniel Aaron."HYPERGRAPHIA", a film currently in production......is a narrative feature recounting the true story of the notorious Boston eccentric and recluse Arthur Crew Inman (1895-1963) and of "THE INMAN DIARY" he created. Published by Harvard University Press, Inman's gargantuan diary is one of the great literary curiosities of our age, a sprawling memory piece of mor........ Read more »
Devinsky, J., & Schachter, S. (2009) Norman Geschwind’s contribution to the understanding of behavioral changes in temporal lobe epilepsy: The February 1974 lecture. Epilepsy , 15(4), 417-424. DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.06.006
- October 23, 2009
- 04:45 PM
- 714 views
Deep Brain Stimulation for Depressed Rats
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic
Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is probably the most exciting emerging treatment in psychiatry. DBS is the use of high-frequency electrical current to alter the function of specific areas of the brain. Originally developed for Parkinson's disease, over the past five years DBS has been used experimentally in severe clinical depression, OCD, Tourette's syndrome, alcoholism, and more.Reports of the effects have frequently been remarkable, but there have been few scientifically rigorous studies, and th........ Read more »
Hamani, C., Diwan, M., Macedo, C., Brandão, M., Shumake, J., Gonzalez-Lima, F., Raymond, R., Lozano, A., Fletcher, P., & Nobrega, J. (2009) Antidepressant-Like Effects of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Deep Brain Stimulation in Rats. Biological Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.08.025
- October 23, 2009
- 12:30 PM
- 764 views
Wakeful Orcas
by Sandra Kiume in Channel N
Wakeful neurodevelopment in newborn orcas.... Read more »
Lyamin, O., Pryaslova, J., Lance, V., & Siegel, J. (2005) Animal behaviour: Continuous activity in cetaceans after birth. Nature, 435(7046), 1177-1177. DOI: 10.1038/4351177a
- October 23, 2009
- 11:54 AM
- 599 views
Rebounding may be good for the brokenhearted
by eHarmony Labs in eHarmony Labs Blog
Flying in the face of conventional wisdom, new research shows that a rebound relationship—or even just the promise of one—might be helpful in alleviating the attachment to a former relationship.... Read more »
Spielmann, S., MacDonald, G., & Wilson, A. (2009) On the Rebound: Focusing on Someone New Helps Anxiously Attached Individuals Let Go of Ex-Partners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35(10), 1382-1394. DOI: 10.1177/0146167209341580
- October 23, 2009
- 08:24 AM
- 732 views
Science of Speed Dating - Part 2
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
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By turning speed dating events into social science experiments, psychologists are gaining new insights into human behavior and mate selection.... Read more »
Finkel EJ, & Eastwick PW. (2009) Arbitrary social norms influence sex differences in romantic selectivity. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 20(10), 1290-5. PMID: 19754525
- October 23, 2009
- 04:33 AM
- 696 views
A warm room makes people feel socially closer
by Christian Jarrett in BPS Research Digest
Last year, the psychologists Lawrence Williams and John Bargh gave participants a cup of coffee to hold and showed that the temperature of the coffee affected the way those participants rated a stranger's character. A hot coffee led them to rate him as more good natured and generous, whilst holding an iced coffee had the opposite effect. The finding was touted as an example of embodied cognition - the idea that the way we think about the world is grounded in, and affected by, physical metaphors......... Read more »
Ijzerman H, & Semin GR. (2009) The Thermometer of Social Relations: Mapping Social Proximity on Temperature. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS. PMID: 19732385
- October 22, 2009
- 05:48 PM
- 501 views
Do we all have a talent for music?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
A simple 'yes', I believe.I do an attempt to explain this in a book that is about to be published in Dutch (English, and other languages, are planned for 2010/11).The evidence comes from researchers from all over the globe (England, France, Germany, Belgium, North-America, Canada, South America, etc.) .... standing on the shoulders of giants... it turned out to be a great view...H. Honing (2009). Iedereen is muzikaal: Wat we weten over het luisteren naar muziek. Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers. ISBN: ........ Read more »
H. Honing. (2009) Iedereen is muzikaal: Wat we weten over het luisteren naar muziek. Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers. info:/
- October 22, 2009
- 04:52 PM
- 1,194 views
What does it take to get kids to eat healthy foods?
by Dave Munger in Cognitive Daily
When Jim and Nora were in elementary school, both Greta and I worked challenging jobs, so we did whatever we could to save time. Instead of bringing lunches made by their parents, the kids bought hot meals at school. The school was proud of its cafeteria. Kids had credit accounts, which meant they didn't have to carry lunch money to school (thus making them less of a target for bullies). The children were encouraged to make "healthy choices" instead of just getting a ladleful of mystery meat plo........ Read more »
HENDY, H., WILLIAMS, K., & CAMISE, T. (2005) “Kids Choice” School lunch program increases children's fruit and vegetable acceptance. Appetite, 45(3), 250-263. DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2005.07.006
- October 22, 2009
- 04:22 AM
- 942 views
Young girls particularly prone to getting stuck in role of bullying victim
by Christian Jarrett in BPS Research Digest
Young girls are far more prone than boys to getting stuck in the role of bullying victim. That's according to a new investigation by psychologists who studied hundreds of children at 17 primary schools in Hertfordshire and North London.Dieter Wolke and his colleagues interviewed the children when they were aged between six and nine years and then surveyed them again two or four years later once the children had reached year six. The researchers were interested in the individual and situational f........ Read more »
Wolke, D., Woods, S., & Samara, M. (2009) Who escapes or remains a victim of bullying in primary school?. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27(4), 835-851. DOI: 10.1348/026151008X383003
- October 21, 2009
- 02:34 PM
- 643 views
It’s hard work researching teamwork
by Adiemusfree in Healthskills: Skills for Healthy Living
After writing about teams and models and the distinct possibility of talking past each other, I had a very quick search for a paper on teamwork and models this morning, and came across this one by a group of Canadian researchers. It is, like many of these pieces of research into the messy [...]... Read more »
Loisel, P., Falardeau, M., Baril, R., José-Durand, M., Langley, A., Sauvé, S., & Gervais, J. (2005) The values underlying team decision-making in work rehabilitation for musculoskeletal disorders. Disability , 27(10), 561-569. DOI: 10.1080/09638280400018502
- October 21, 2009
- 04:30 AM
- 792 views
Competition between nostrils
by Christian Jarrett in BPS Research Digest
Show one image exclusively to one eye and a different image exclusively to the other eye and rather than experiencing a merging of the images, an observer's percept will flit backwards and forwards randomly and endlessly between the two. This "binocular rivalry", as it's known, has been of particular interest to psychologists because it shows how the same incoming sensory information can give rise to two very different conscious experiences. Now, in a research first, psychologists have shown tha........ Read more »
Zhou, W., & Chen, D. (2009) Binaral Rivalry between the Nostrils and in the Cortex. Current Biology, 19(18), 1561-1565. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.052
- October 20, 2009
- 11:00 PM
- 555 views
Red Suits Her
by Daniel Hawes in Ingenious Monkey | 20-two-5
Red may be the literary color of love, but for psychologists red is emerging as the color of male sexual desire, as a recent study finds that the mere presence of red color increases men's perception of women's attractiveness.... Read more »
Elliot, A., & Niesta, D. (2008) Romantic red: Red enhances men's attraction to women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(5), 1150-1164. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.95.5.1150
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