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Money Brings Happiness
— if You Give it Away

Researchers discover giving makes people happier than receiving

Mar 21, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Money can buy happiness after all, the Globe & Mail reports. A new study shows that people reported being happier if they spent money on others rather than themselves. "This work suggests that even making small alterations in how we spend money on a daily basis can make a... More »

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money • research • psychology • charity • happiness

What Was Spitzer Thinking?

Experts wonder why smart guys do really stupid things

Mar 11, 08 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer's reported involvement with a pricey call-girl ring has left, well, everyone scratching their heads, the AP reports. What makes a public figure show such jaw-dropping disregard for the consequences of private actions? One analyst calls it "the psychology of the exception. People in power sometimes feel they... More »

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prostitution • New York • sex scandal • psychology • Eliot Spitzer • political scandal • scandal • prostitution ring

Microsoft's Math Genius Talks Shop, Opens New Lab

It's all about phase transitions, psychology

Feb 22, 08 2:50 PM CST
(Newser) - When Microsoft hired math professor Jennifer Chayes 11 years ago, the company couldn’t have realized how prescient they were, to the degree that her high-level research would impact applications as diverse as search, keyword advertising, and social networks. “Who would have thought?” Chayes tells Technology Review in a... More »

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Microsoft • psychology • Jennifer Chayes • phase shifts • mathematics

UPDATED

Cops Arrest Suspect in Shrink Slaying

Patient claims he
only planned to rob
his psychiatrist

Feb 16, 08 4:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Police arrested an "emotionally disturbed" patient today for brutally slaying a New York psychologist earlier this week, the New York Post reports. Suspect David Tarloff "made statements implicating himself in the homicide," police said, and was identified by four witnesses as the killer of psychologist Kathryn Faughey.... More »

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NYPD • New York City • crime • police • murder • homicide • psychology • suspect

Meat Cleaver Murder Hunt Hits Roadblocks

Cops can't check patient files; top suspect has alibi

Feb 15, 08 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Yesterday police thought they had found the man who viciously stabbed a Manhattan psychologist to death. But after 9 hours of questioning, the prime suspect in the murder of Kathryn Faughey was released after his alibi checked out. Frustrated investigators turned to Faughey’s patient records, only to learn that... More »

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New York City • crime • murder • privacy • patients • psychology

Man Hacks Shrink to Death in NY Office

Police hunt killer who wielded meat cleaver
in furious assault

Feb 14, 08 10:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Police are urgently hunting an unidentified man who walked into a New York psychologist's office Tuesday night and hacked her to death with a meat cleaver. Another doctor, who came to her rescue, was also slashed and left in critical condition, the New York Post reports. The killer pinned him... More »

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New York City • crime • murder • psychology • Kathryn Faughey • meat cleaver

Man-Training Manual Finally Hits the Stores

Therapists call dog analogy cute but no marital cure-all

Feb 10, 08 7:37 PM CST
(Newser) - A woman who has long compared men to dogs has a book coming out and a movie in the works, all plugging the notion that men can be trained. But critics fear that What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage is another pop psych title that props up... More »

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gender • women • men • marriage • psychology • therapy • book • economic stimulus package

Bah, Happiness: Gloom Is Normal

Sadness is a normal emotion, not a disease, cries anti-joy crowd

Feb 7, 08 8:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Maybe you're feeling a little down—not to worry! Turn to self-help books, psychiatrists, little blue pills, or Dr. Phil to make you happier! But in Against Happiness, melancholy Eric Wilson rails against our culture’s “craven disregard for the value of sadness.” And a growing... More »

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depression • psychiatry • antidepressant • psychology • Zoloft • Aristotle • Dr Phil • sadness • melancholy • self-help • Great Depression

Therapists Want End to Britney Diagnoses

Identifying mental illness through media inaccurate, dangerous

Jan 24, 08 8:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The media loves to publish experts' diagnoses of Britney Spears, but assessing a patient's mental condition from gossip columns is irresponsible—and it's giving therapists a bad rep, concluded some professionals at an American Psychoanalytic Association summit. "Brains don't have a checkbox," one analyst told the AP, but... More »

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media • Britney Spears • psychiatry • paparazzi • mental illness • psychology • bipolar disorder • therapist

NEW RELEASE

Stop Picking
on Nerds!

US needs more brainiacs, even if
they are unsexy,
new book argues

Jan 1, 08 6:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Americans mock nerds ad nauseum, and psych prof David Anderegg says it's time to lay off. In his new book, Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them, Andregg breezily but thoroughly critiques a cultural prejudice that he claims dates back to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the... More »

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education • parenting • Bill Gates • intelligence • psychology • sociology • Ralph Waldo Emerson

OPINION

Psych Prof
Puts Bush
on the Couch

Snarky summary has implications prez should take seriously

Dec 17, 07 2:46 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush recently scorned a reporter’s “Psychology 101,” but one mind-minded professor says he could benefit from a few lessons. Bush should start by trying “pattern matching,” Jonathan Haidt writes in the LA Times, with no little humor: If he’d stop equating Islam with... More »

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Iraq • North Korea • Islam • psychology • behaviorism • Jonathan Haidt • the Decider • George W. Bush

Iraq Vet Faces Life Over Suicide Try

Shrinks say she's mentally ill, but Army calls it 'psychobabble'

Dec 2, 07 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - First Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside faces possible life in prison. Her crime? Attempting suicide in Iraq. At a military hearing this week, her diagnosed mental illness was spurned by superiors as an "excuse” and labeled “psychobabble." Suicide tries remain illegal in a military culture that scorns mental disorder,... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • prison • mental illness • psychology • Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Freud Is Everywhere but in Psych Dept

Psychoanalysis is thriving in culture, obsolete in psychology

Nov 25, 07 10:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Sigmund Freud's ideas have seeped into every corner of popular culture and academia, from film to foreign policy. The one place they've seeped out of is university psychology departments, where psychoanalysis is now viewed as obsolete, the New York Times reports. A new survey of 150 top colleges and universities... More »

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health insurance • psychology • academia • neuroscience • Sigmund Freud • psychoanalysis

Brain Holds Stress-Coping Mechanism

Scientists find chemical that's key to keeping your cool—or not

Oct 21, 07 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Turns out keeping your cool really is all in your head—scientists now pinpoint those most susceptible to stress as having too much of a chemical in a region of the brain that regulates reward signals, Reuters reports. The discovery could shed light on treatments for PTSD and depression, which... More »

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depression • stress • psychology • PTSD

Smell is Key for Sex and Sanity

Psychologist calls it the most emotionally evocative in new book

Oct 8, 07 7:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sight may be key for survival, but sex and sanity need the oft-overlooked sense of smell, says a Rhode Island psych prof. Rachel Herz’s The Scent of Desire argues that smell sparks the strongest feelings and memories, often in surprising ways: One woman hated the scent of roses because... More »

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study • psychology • sense of smell

Aussie Navy Busted Over Free Boob Jobs

$10,000-a-pop operations address "psychological issues"

Sep 17, 07 7:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Royal Australian Navy has footed the bill for $10,000 breast-enhancement surgeries for sailors, says a plastic surgeon who told Australia's News Network that he performed breast enlargements for two such women—although neither had any injury. Officials insist the Navy pays for cosmetic operations only when there are... More »

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Australia • psychology • cosmetic surgery • breast enhancement • Royal Australian Navy • Howard Stern Grid

Caught My Yawn? Aren't You Sweet

Study discovers
contagious yawning
is sign of empathy

Sep 11, 07 3:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you yawn when someone nearby does, it may mean you're an empathetic person, a new study has found. Research shows that infectious yawning is a psychological phenomenon, limited to humans and some of their ape relatives, and that those more likely to "catch" yawns appear to be more... More »

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study • psychology • yawning • cognitive science • neurology • yawn • empathy

Online Book Links Torture Tests to Government

'Torture bible' details studies

Sep 6, 07 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - A "torture bible" recently unearthed online indicates that the US government sanctioned and funded the torture of test subjects in psychological experiments in the '50s, apparently to perfect interrogation techniques, Boing Boing reports. The studies were commissioned by the government and involve methods "likely to be regarded as... More »

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torture • America • psychology • government study • interrogation • torture bible

The Heart of Geekness Will Save Us All

Nerds grasp large-scale human suffering much better, Wired says

Sep 1, 07 5:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Why is Bill Gates, “practically a social cripple,” going to save the world? Because of numbers, says Clive Thompson in Wired. More than most, the Microsoft maverick -- who spearheads tireless crusades against poverty and AIDS -- can comprehend large quantities, while research shows that most of us... More »

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philanthropy • Bill Gates • aid • psychology • Paul Slovic • Decision Research • numeracy • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

If I Said You Had an Incredible Body...

...would you be in this study? Researchers examine pickup lines

Aug 29, 07 7:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cheesy pickup lines aren’t just a turn off, but a measure of a man’s “genes and fitness,” according to a new study in Personality and Individual Differences. They also reveal the personality the man is looking for. Men know ladies aren’t fond of sexual... More »

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women • men • psychology • genes • dating

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