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When casinos decide you're losing too much money
Study to find out what makes men tick
Study: We`re hard-wired for snap judgments
Compulsive Liars Have Different Brain
Cruise isn't just weird, he's scary
LAUER COMES TO CRUISE'S DEFENCE
Oh no, another "new" psychology: "Holographic Psychology is the birth of a revolutionary course of understanding that all comprehension and associated behavior is being subjectively determined and manifests as part of the individual’s psychological dynamics. It presents a giant leap in awareness, recognizing that all language is symbolic, reflecting people, places and things based on the person’s currently accepted worldview."
Another: New Book: Liberation Psychotherapy says focusing on six fundamental emotions leads to psychological liberation.
Neurologist Dr. Fred Baughman talks about the fraud of ADHD and the poisoning of U.S. children
Ped Med: Anti-depressant questions rise
Bipolar Disorder Takes Heavy Toll on Workplace
CBS: Survivor of the fittest race: The psychological effects of such a race war are damaging to the viewer. It becomes easy for one to root for the team they racially identify with while rooting against the rival team. In teams constructed solely based on race, it becomes easy to imagine "us and them" divisions, and thus tempting for people to practice racism. This race war will end with winners and losers - which would endorse notions of superior and inferior races.
Joseph H. Friedman: A torturing madman of a psychiatrist: This is the crime. Cotton was clearly megalomaniacal. He even had his teenage sons' teeth removed entirely for fear that they might be harboring hidden infections that signal the onset of a mental illness. He then subjected one of his sons to an abdominal operation when his behavior again started to raise concern. (They both committed suicide.)
Her weight is putting me off sex
Drunk women embarrassing, slutty - report
Study finds double standard for women's drinking
US PSYCHOLOGISTS FIRM ON EX-GAY TREATMENTS
APA denies any retreat on gay therapy
Pediatricians Applaud Report: Professional Group Backs Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting
Gay conversion groups encouraging "child abuse"?
Truth Wins Out Rebukes 'Ex-Gay' Therapist for Promoting Bullying in Schools
Anything but Straight: Drunk on Delusions
Gay activists to picket ex-gay conference
APA President Affirms Patient Right to Unwanted Homosexuality Help
APA President Supports Therapy Treating Unwanted Homosexual Tendencies
The Trouble When Jane Becomes Jack
Same-Sex Marriage: Mental Health Perspectives
Obesity may boost mental illness risk
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Media Slant Favors Older Brother Effect Study Over Conflicting Research
Hypnosis may cure a type of baldness
Save By Splurging Only On Things You Care About
BlackBerries 'damage' mental health
Numbing down: the effects of playing with violence
Study to look at mind and diet
Workplaces quit quietly ignoring mental illness
BORING people are bad for your health
Search for alternative mascot at NSU draws defense, criticism from APA and others
Duff-guzzling Homer a credit to fatherhood
The disrupting influence of technology
Bullies made my girl’s life a misery
Psychiatrist believes client is Monroe reincarnated "A top psychiatrist is convinced that a Toronto, Canada club singer is the reincarnation of movie icon MARILYN MONROE after conducting truth tests on her for the past eight years."
Women who accept their bodies have healthy eating habits "Rather than tell women to avoid the negative habits that lead to eating disorders, Tylka says, it would be better to teach the positive habits that lead to intuitive eating."
At last, the research that says eat what you want to get slim "The most effective way of losing weight is not to try, researchers have found."
Study: Men feel pressure to be muscular "Like women, men feel their bodies do not measure up to those in the media, and it is leading some to unhealthy and dangerous behaviors, finds a U.S. study."
Battle of the Sexes: Body Health Is What They See "New research on how men and women view their bodies shows that women who accept their looks are more likely to eat healthy, but men feeling pressure to have a lean, muscular image may engage in unhealthy eating and exercise behavior."
Where psychology meets music: Classical plays a role "When peddling Provençal sea salt—or deterring crime, or boosting efficiency in a hospital's operating room—classical music seems to be played as much for its psychological properties as for the art-for-art's-sake aesthetic of the concert hall."
The Beginning and End of the West Wing: “But if The West Wing isn’t really ending, the particular liberal psychology it chronicled is. And that’s probably for the best.”
What’s Provocative? Professional Women Walk a Fashion Tightrope. “Women judge other women…They almost look down on women they think dress inappropriately.”
Business Casual? Seriously: Some People Take the Idea of Dressing Down Too Far Men, in particular, are stuck: Go without a tie, and inevitably the others at the meeting will be in suits. Dress up, and of course you'll be the only one. For women -- and I'm sure some will disagree -- it's a bit easier. They have more options, and few definitive signs of business casual and business formal like the men's necktie.
High-maintenance dynamics at work may affect subsequent performance "Confirming what many of us have suspected anecdotally, new research from Northwestern University shows that high-maintenance or difficult interactions indeed drain us. Most importantly, the study demonstrates how those draining social dynamics, in which an individual is trying so hard to regulate his or her behavior, can impair success on subsequent unrelated tasks."