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For the jobless, Labor Day is hardly a holiday

Every day it's a battle. The nearly 15 million unemployed Americans won't enjoy Labor Day as a relaxing respite from work. Instead, they'll once again need to prepare to get up, hit the pavement and keep hunting for a job.

Air travelers are fed up and beaten down

We pray to escape the middle row. We pay extra for a cranny of bonus leg room. And we pine for an upgrade to the highest of all Promised Lands — first class.

Blue the hue of creativity? Red for detail?

We learn from toddlerhood that red means danger — so should we use red ink for medication warnings? And if blue signals the freedom of open skies, how about brainstorming in a room painted blue?

Hurricane Ike churns west, triggers fears

For those who live in its path, hurricane season stirs up anxiety even before devastating winds and rains hit land.

Looking for love or lust? Your face gives it away

It’s no use being coy. If you’re looking for a fling, it might just be written all over your face.

Analysts Ask: What Was Spitzer Thinking?

It's the simplest question in the world, but it was the one repeated over and over Monday after the staggering news broke about Gov. Eliot Spitzer: What in heaven's name was the man thinking?

US Psychologists Scrap Interrogation Ban

The nation's largest group of psychologists scrapped a measure Sunday that would have prohibited members from assisting interrogators at Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. military detention centers.

Psychologists Weigh Interrogation Ban

Stung by reports implicating mental health specialists in prisoner abuse scandals at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, the nation's largest group of psychologists is considering banning its members from interrogations of terror suspects.

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The Evolution of the God Gene
Source: The New York Times

IN the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion.

Is your therapist a little behind the times?
Source: The Washington Post

For at least 2,000-years, medicine was locked in a struggle between those who viewed it as an art and those who saw it as a science. Until the last century, most medical practitioners were guided by intuition and tradition, not by science.

Bad Decisions May Be Contagious
Source: Science: Current Issue

Like the flu, a person's emotional state can be contagious. Watch someone cry, and you'll likely feel sad; think about the elderly, and you'll tend to walk slower. Now a study suggests that we can also catch someone else's irrational thought processes.

Your Kids Can't Say No to Candy? Blame It on Their Brains - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

Children's inability to ignore candy is what also makes them great at discovery and learning per psychological studies and papers...

Innovations Rejuvenation and the Inflicted Society

Over the past couple decades this great nation and the world has seen the taken of age of epoch of the internet with a plethora of avenues and means for livilyhood and communication.We have seen economic collapse of all including morals and the inevitable destruction of society  …

Young children's moral understanding more sophisticated than previously thought
Source: bps-research-digest.blogspot.com

When her Daily Mail column about Stephen Gately's death provoked an avalanche of complaints, the disgraced Jan Moir issued a press statement in which she said "it was never [her] intention" to upset people. Defensively speaking, Moir's choice of words was astute.

Pig Cognition Studies...Parallels With Humans
Source: The New York Times

In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.

How did the present get erased from our existential psyche?
Source: Ben Atlas

Paul Carr writes in Techcrunch – After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth. Paul describes that during the Fort Hood news blackout, Twitter updates contributed to the disinformation.

Babies with an accent
Source: EurekAlert!

In the first days of their lives, French infants already cry in a different way to German babies.

Helicopter Parenting Wrong for All Cultures
Source: Psych Central

Parenting is an incredibly rewarding albeit frequently challenging experience. Unfortunately issues from 'over-parenting' — where parents dominate their children's life with the meddling often extending into adolescence and continuing until college entry — transcend ge …

Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery
Source: AOL NEWS

Climate psychology in cartoons: clues for solving the messaging mystery

Thinking negatively can boost your memory
Source: Yahoo! News

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

Scientifically Haunted House Suggests You're a Sucker
Source: Wired News

To test whether it's possible to artificially induce paranormal experiences — or, from a different perspective, to technologically summon a spirit — researchers at London's Goldsmith College and architect Usman Haque designed a scientifically haunted room.

Thinking negatively can boost your memory, study finds
Source: Yahoo! News

Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

Bad mood can boost memory
Source: Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

SYDNEY - BAD moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

Co-Concurrance and Deviants

Over the years much has been said concerning movies,television, the media in general and violence, while it has been brought to light that these things could possibly affect the workings of a so called healthy brain.First let us concider everyone has a healthy brain,nervous sys …

How to be Happy
Source: Psychology Today

An evolutionary look at the road to happiness.

"Mommy, why is Daddy so angry… and insane?" (The Internal Breakdown of the Republican Party in 2009)

There are many archetypes for the father figure. The most disturbing one is probably the domineering task master whose "love" comes at a cost that can never be paid.

Cheney Blood Lust - Page 1 - The Daily Beast
Source: thedailybeast.com

A person of some intelligence makes a heroic effort to understand Cheney family.

Stanford Study Explains Internet Trolls
Source: io9.com

In a study conducted at Stanford, psychologists discovered that people who hold extreme opinions are more likely to voice them loudly than those who hold moderate opinions. At last, science has explained most of what you read on the internet.

Monkeys Repulsed by CGI Monkey Renderings...Just Like We Were to the Polar Express
Source: discovermagazine.com

The response takes its name from a graph ([image in article]) of human emotional response as a function of a depiction's human-likeness.

Confronting Bad Behavior: Is There A Social Payoff?
Source: Science Daily

Suppose you are at a busy playground and you hear an 11-year-old using language he didn't learn on Sesame Street. There are plenty of other adults around, but, apparently, not this child's parents. Do you intervene? Does anyone?

Psychopaths are distracted, not cold-blooded
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AN ATTENTION deficit, rather than an inability to feel emotion, may be what makes psychopathic individuals seem fearless. It's a finding that challenges the common characterisation of such people as cold-blooded predators.

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