Psychology

Anti-same-sex marriage amendments spark distress among GLBT adults and families, says new research

Amendments that restrict civil marriage rights of same-sex couples - such as Proposition 8 that recently passed in California - have led to higher levels of stress and anxiety among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...

Crafting your image for your 1,000 friends on Facebook or MySpace

Students are creating idealized versions of themselves on social networking websites — Facebook and MySpace are the most popular — and using these sites to explore their emerging identities, UCLA psychologists report. Parents...

Diet tricks of 'The Biggest Loser: Families'

Expert advice on how the contestants can change a lifetime of bad habits By Sarah Mahoney, for Prevention Fat runs in families. The contestants on NBC's "The Biggest Loser: Families" are living proof. At the start of the...

A test for bias proves elusive on answers

Last year, a team of researchers at Harvard made headlines with an experiment testing unconscious bias at hospitals. In a series of scathing critiques, some psychologists have argued that this computerized tool, the Implicit...

No fooling: Experts bemoan loss of kids' play time

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - "We're all sad, and we're a little worried. ... We're sad about something missing in childhood," psychologist and author Michael Thompson told 900 early childhood educators from...

What Makes People Racist?

clipped by: einbarclipper's remarks: The researchers say that negative associations likely have such power in most people's minds because evolution prepared us to notice bad things more than good things. “If there’s a lion...

Nostalgic thoughts of happier times can help overcome loneliness

Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, has a crucial part to play in combating feelings of isolation and loneliness, claim researchers in a new study. Psychologists, from the Universities of Southampton and Sun Yat-Sen...

Sleep helps people learn complicated tasks

Sleep also helps people recover forgotten skills Sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks and helps people recover learning they otherwise thought they had forgotten over the course of a day, research at the University of...

The psychology of deja vu

All of us have experienced being in a new place and feeling certain that we have been there before. This mysterious feeling, commonly known as déjà vu, occurs when we feel that a new situation is familiar, even if there is...

Bound by attention: Bringing rats and humans together

EUREKALERT Contact: Catherine West cwest@psychologicalscience.org Association for Psychological Science When picking through a basket of fruit, it doesn't seem very difficult to recognize a green pear from a green apple. This...

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