Is the quality and overall state of social and personality research “rotten to the core,” as has been debated by psychologists in recent years? The answer is no, according to University of Illinois at Chicago researchers who conducted two studies to examine how practices have changed, if at all. In one study, the UIC researchers …
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The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is poised to begin public consultation on a contentious set of regulations aimed at defining the scope of practice of psychologists. Nonclinical psychologists say the regulations are so narrowly defined, they stop them from providing legitimate services. To add to their woes, some medical schemes have interpreted the …
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Psychologists have been studying visual search in the lab for decades, in order to understand how we might have developed real-world ‘foraging’ behaviour. But just how similar are the two? One of the big questions in vision research over the past 40 years has asked how we effectively search around our visual environment. Search is …
New insights may help scientists better understand the psychological motivations behind the murder and genocide of humans, says UA researcher Uri Lifshin, who has just co-authored findings published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. When reminded of death, humans become more likely to support killing animals, regardless of their existing attitudes about animal rights, …
Article of the Day: Fear of Death Affects Human Attitudes Toward Animal Life Read More »
In 1457, the inhabitants of a small French town witnessed a gruesome murder of a little boy. The perpetrator, a female, snuck into the house while the child’s mother was out and mutilated the little boy while he lay in bed. The townsfolk found the perpetrator covered in blood and placed her on trial. They …
Article of the Day: The Universal Human Need to Blame Read More »
“… there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”–William Shakespeare Lately, in the world of intelligence and geopolitics, there is much talk about triangulation, what used to go by the name of Finlandization, now considered an obscene word in the world of diplomacy. “Velvet occupation” seems to be preferred. In any …
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Cape Town – Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi must urgently intervene in the funding crisis currently engulfing the field of educational psychology, the Educational Psychology Association of SA (Epassa) has said. Epassa wrote to Motsoaledi this month to say it has become “disillusioned” with the attitude of both the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) and the …
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Bullying can turn an idyllic job into something you dread. Whether it’s your co-worker or a boss, dealing with intimidation at work can leave you feeling constantly on edge, fearful, and helpless. Bullies are generally defined as people who intimidate or control others to achieve their aims. They may collaborate when their goals are being …
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Some people are always late. You probably know someone who just never shows up when you want them to, armed with an excuse when they finally appear 20 minutes later. Maybe it’s you who has the problem, and no matter how many alarms and reminders you set, you just can’t help but leave the house …
Article of the Day: Psychological Reasons Why Some People are Always Late Read More »
We lack a definition of what psychological health looks like in today’s world. Following a recent talk to a group of business people, a man cornered me and said, “I work hard, I’m pretty successful, I have stable, second marriage and kids who are doing well…and yet I often feel unsatisfied with my life and …
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