If you’re a woman reading this, chances are you’re a bisexual or a lesbian. Science says so – so it has to be true. If you’re a man reading this, I can finally explain why some seemingly promising first dates never worked out for you. The answer, so we’re told, to both is simple: most women […]
Category: Psychology
Feds Developed App That Predicts ‘Psychological Status’ of Americans
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a system that can predict the “psychological status” of users with smartphones and hope to private companies to bring the invention to the market. The technology appeared on a list of NIH inventions published in the Federal Register that are now available to be licensed […]
Psychologists Colluded With Pentagon, CIA on ‘Torture’: Report
The US’s top psychology association colluded with the Pentagon and the CIA to devise ethical guidelines to support post-9/11 interrogation techniques that have since been labeled as torture, a report said Friday. Some members of the American Psychological Association (APA), including senior staff, sought to “curry favor” with defense officials, according to the 542-page probe […]
Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: It Is Starkly, Nakedly False That Sex Change Is Possible
The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake. Gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy, not surgery. For forty years as the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School—twenty-six of which were also spent as Psychiatrist in […]
Mental Health Bill Gets a Second Chance
Rep. Tim Murphy’s big mental health bill is getting a second chance this week, with its most controversial provision stripped out. A House subcommittee plans on Tuesday to consider the 173-page plan, which Murphy has ceaselessly championed over the last year and a half. The Pennsylvania Republican, who is a psychiatrist, has emerged as Congress’ […]
Sen. Markey Pushes For $60M for CDC to Study ‘Epidemic of Gun Violence’
Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to authorize $60 million in taxpayer money to go to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) for research on gun violence prevention. The measure, introduced last week, would give $10 million a year “for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2021 for the purpose of conducting or supporting research on […]
Veteran Put on Hold by VA Suicide Hotline
A Florida veteran says he was repeatedly put on hold for up to ten minutes at a time when trying to call the Department of Veterans Affairs suicide hotline. U.S. Air Force veteran Ted Koran told ABC Action News in Tampa Bay that he was experiencing suicidal thoughts following the death of his wife six […]
State Dep’t Official: Boredom, a Desire to Belong, Marginalization Drive ‘Violent Extremism’
Factors driving individuals to “violent extremism” range from boredom to “perceived adventure” to a desire to belong; while conditions conducive to its spread among communities include “social rejection, political disenfranchisement, and economic exclusion,” a State Department official said Tuesday. “Yet the phenomenon of political, economic, and social marginalization as a driver of violent extremism is […]
ISIS Defector Describes ‘Mind Games’ With Hostages Before Beheadings
A man claiming to be an escaped former interpreter with the Islamic State terror group has revealed unnerving details on the jihadis’ handling methods of high-profile foreign hostages. In an interview with British network Sky News, the man describes that hostages in the group’s infamous beheading videos rarely knew they were about to die. Instead, […]
Being Unemployed Could Warp Your Personality
New research suggests being unemployed may actually alter a person’s “core personality” for the worse, making it harder to secure new employment, per the American Psychological Association. A study published in the APA’s Journal of Applied Psychology looked at nearly 6,769 German adults who took a personality test at two points during a four-year period; […]
Newsrooms Grapple With PTSD As Graphic Footage Becomes More Common
If you haven’t seen the recent execution of Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh by ISIS, you’re lucky. It’s absolutely horrifying. In the video, ISIS burned to death al-Kasasbeh, who was captured on December 24. It ends with them dropping concrete debris on his charred body, destroying the cage they kept him in as he burned alive. This […]
School Shooter Fooled Psychologists As He Plotted Deadly Rampage
He called himself a “psychopath” in his secret diary and vowed revenge for slights dating back to elementary school before the Arapahoe High School shooter killed another student and himself last year, according to a sheriff’s report released Friday. Law enforcement and school officials said that 18-year-old Karl Pierson, furious over being demoted Sept. 3 […]
