psychology

Less than one in 10 foster kids who go to college will obtain their bachelor’s degree, but that didn’t stop 25-year-old Rona Lin Frank of Texas from beating the odds.

Children of conservative parents are much more likely to have good mental health compared to children of liberal parents, a study released Thursday found.

NYU professor Jonathan Haidt is quitting an academic group requiring a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statement, stating, “As scholars I believe we have a fiduciary duty to the truth.”

A psychology professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who specializes in “positive emotions” was placed on paid administrative leave after police arrested him for allegedly locking his son in a dog crate and beating his wife.

A research article published last month in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association describes “whiteness” as a “malignant, parasitic-like condition” that makes the host person “voracious, insatiable, and perverse,” warning that there is “not yet a permanent cure.”

A retired professor was removed from an APA division’s listserv after he asked questions via email that suggested there are only two sexes.

A Chinese court has ruled that the printing of the words “homosexuality is a psychological disorder,” which appeared in a university textbook used in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, was “not an error,” Chinese state media outlet the Paper reported Thursday.

The magazine Psychology Today removed a column on Orwellian language from Rutgers Professor Lee Jussim after it had already been published. The piece mocked the creation of new words that Jussim argues leads to “much discourse, rhetoric, dysfunction, and bias in academia and psychology.”

 Western Connecticut State University professor Daniel Barrett says that he is “blinded” by his own “whiteness,” and wants it to go away. The professor adds that individuals with less melanin in their skin are contributing to the destruction of the environment, among other problems.

Since cannibalism is found throughout the animal kingdom and therefore is something natural, perhaps it is time for humans to rethink the “ultimate taboo” against eating human flesh, Newsweek proposes in an article Wednesday.

An Italian psychologist has proposed modifying people’s unconscious prejudices and stereotypes by subjecting parts of the brain to electric and magnetic impulses.

A leading psychiatrist has identified six words people should not use, because they are “accompanied by feelings of moral judgment, hatred and utter rejection,” Business Insider revealed Monday.

Three hundred left-wing academics from around the world are conspiring to destroy the career of a promising young Cambridge University researcher, Noah Carl.

A new sexual identity has surfaced in the Bay Area, known as “asexual.” The individuals who identify with this orientation say do not have sexual attraction to other people.

CBC reported on a counselor in Washington, DC, who said people are suffering from a “collective anxiety” because of President Donald Trump.

According to new reports, men are disappearing from both psychology studies and psychology classrooms.

The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, which alleged to show the dangerous results of putting individuals into positions of power over others, is reported to have been fake and acted out by participants.

A professor of psychology at the University of Texas, San Antonio, argues that Americans are emotionally “fatigued” due to the prevalence of negative news in the media.

Two psychologists have claimed that selfie addiction could be a sign of a mental condition called “selfitis.”

Former Napster co-Founder and Facebook President Sean Parker blasted social media in a recent interview for “exploiting” human psychology.

The majority of third world migrants living in Italy suffer from mental disorders which make them prone to “aggressive behaviour” and “psychotic episodes”, according to a study by psychologists.

Four scientists have claimed that James Damore’s Google manifesto is scientifically accurate.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” CNN Political Commentator and former Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Angela Rye argued that President Trump’s dishonesty is the reason to support legislation that ensures that presidential candidates get psychological evaluations. Rye

Artificial intelligence engineers are being forced to employ psychology to help them understand the way that their own creations think.

A Japanese Health Ministry survey released this week found that nearly one out of four citizens has considered suicide, with more women admitting to the impulse than men but higher suicide rates among men than women.

A recent psychological study concluded that moral outrage is sometimes a symptom of personal guilt rather than genuine empathy for the situation of others.

Two psychologists in Finland have concluded that religious believers are bad at math and physics, have poor mechanical abilities and don’t have a good sense of the physical and biological world.

Writing for Quartz, self-described atheist millennial Elizabeth King argues that for herself and countless colleagues, “therapy is our new church,” while noting that “many millennials grappling with the big questions in life want to work them out on a psychologist’s couch instead of a church pew.”