Nov 23 Watch 9:29 Can we reverse radicalization with counselling? By PBS News Hour Can aggressive counseling bring someone back from the brink of radicalization? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien explores the psychological basis for why people are drawn to extremist groups and how a bold experiment in criminal justice and clinical psychology taking place… Continue watching
Nov 17 Loneliness harms aging health. This new campaign aims to curb isolation By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News A new national campaign rolling out on Wednesday aims to raise awareness of a hidden but devastating complication of aging: loneliness. Continue reading
Nov 07 Column: What Westworld gets wrong (and right) about human nature By Alan Jern, The Conversation Research by psychologists provides some insight into how most humans would actually act in HBO's Westworld. Continue reading
Oct 31 Column: Why we’ll always fear monsters By Leo Braudy, The Conversation Why are we still so afraid?… Continue reading
Oct 28 Column: Growing up, I didn’t know my mother had a lobotomy By Mona Gable, STAT "What my mother really suffered, though, was the brutal loss of her self. But it’s taken me decades to understand that...," author Mona Gable writes. Continue reading
Oct 25 How flipping a coin can actually help you change your life By Making Sen$e Editor When faced with deciding whether to make a change, people may be too cautious for their own good, a new study finds. Continue reading
Oct 24 Telling a lie makes way for the brain to keep lying By Simon Makin, Scientific American A new study from University College London and Duke University shows how the brain adapts to dishonesty and telling tall tales. Continue reading
Sep 29 Column: The psychology behind why clowns creep us out By Frank T. McAndrew, The Conversation For the past several months, creepy clowns have been terrorizing America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least 10 different states. These fiendish clowns have reportedly tried to lure women and children into the woods, chased… Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch 8:06 The psychological trick behind getting people to say yes By PBS News Hour Asking for someone’s phone number in front of a flower shop will be more successful because the flowers prime us to think about romance. Small, subliminal cues change our willingness to be sold on a product, on ideas or even… Continue watching
Sep 22 What’s ‘Pre-Suasion?’ How marketers make us receptive to an ad By Paul Solman The factor that frequently determines whether people are going to make a particular choice is not the factor that counsels wisely or the one that leads to the greatest economic benefit. It’s the one that’s top of the consciousness in… Continue reading