News tagged with psychology study

Buying experiences, not possessions, leads to greater happiness

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Feb 08, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 2

Can money make us happy if we spend it on the right purchases? A new psychology study suggests that buying life experiences rather than material possessions leads to greater happiness for both the consumer and those around ...

Unrealistic optimism prompts risky behavior

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Unrealistic optimism about drinking behavior can lead to later alcohol-related problems, according to research published in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB), the official monthly journa ...

Depression and anxiety disorders of adolescents are not the same thing

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 23, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Adolescent depression and anxiety disorders are two distinct psychiatric disorders, according to Dr. William W. Hale III (a researcher of the Langeveld Institute for the Study of Education and Development in Childhood and ...

Study reveals complexities of female arousal

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 21, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenging the idea that women's sexual motivations are tied exclusively to romantic emotions or reproduction, a new study by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin found women's sexual decisions ...

Where's the science? The sorry state of psychotherapy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Oct 02, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (9) | 4

The prevalence of mental health disorders in this country has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. Who is treating all of these patients? Clinical psychologists and therapists are charged with the task, but many are falling ...

Measuring the road to mental health

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Aug 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Takuya Minami, assistant professor of counseling and applied psychology at Northeastern, is doing something that might have made even Dr. Freud blanch. Minami is trying to quantify how well ...

Gender-based pay gaps among US faculty

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Nov 10, 2009 | 1 / 5 (2) | 0

Before the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was signed into law by President Kennedy, women earned about fifty percent less than men. Nationally, women still earn an average of thirty percent less than men regardless of education, choice ...

Study shows cell phone users miss the obvious, like a unicycling clown

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 0

How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones?

The developing child: Rating aggressive and delinquent behavior in pre-adolescence

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 19, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

In a study published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry researchers show that over reactive parenting, such as heavy criticism or yelling as a response to a child's negative behavior, can pr ...

The Handwriting of Liars

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 21, 2009 | 3.1 / 5 (37) | 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget about unreliable polygraph lie detectors for identifying liars. A new study claims the best way to find out if someone is a liar is to look at their handwriting, rather than analyzing ...

The pain of torture can make the innocent seem guilty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Oct 26, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (10) | 4

The rationale behind torture is that pain will make the guilty confess, but a new study by researchers at Harvard University finds that the pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty.

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