Description: OK, so as we are heading into the holiday season you will likely have run across many media references to what people’s reaction to the holidays tells us about them. It is likely, however, that few if any of those articles will actually have based what they present in real psychological research. So, in… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Personality
Self-Help with Social Stress: Getting Through 1st Year
Description: The move to college or university from high school environment can be a difficult one. In particular, first-year students often struggle with different versions of social stress which are really focused on whether or not there to be able to measure up in their new learning environment. The article linked below talks about a… Read more »
Cultural Differences in Number of Life Choices: Enough or Too Many?
Description: How much choice do we have in our day-to-day lives? What turns out the answer that question may vary dramatically by culture. Think about what you would expect in the way results in the following experiment. 100 North American in 100 Japanese high school students are asked to take a piece of paper and… Read more »
Selfies as Symptoms?
Description: What do you think about people to post a lot of Selfies on social media sites? The title of the article linked below hints at a causal relationship between the taking of Selfies and problems in one’s relationships. Read the article and maybe have a look at the research article it refers to and… Read more »
Are Selfies Psychologically Diagnostic?
Description: While you may have an opinion about possible differences between people who do and people who do not regularly take and post “selfies” online what do you think about the possibility that self these can be used as data to tell us about the people who take them? Source: Lecia Bushak, Selfies can reveal… Read more »
Cat Ownership and Schizophrenia: Not Straightforward
Description: So what is the first thing that pops to mind when you think of “cat people”? Crazy? Weeellll it’s a bit more complicated. Read this discussion by Andre Picard of an article suggesting that childhood cat ownership increases the chances that one will show symptoms of schizophrenia in adulthood. Source: Andre Picard Column Globe… Read more »
Introverts and Extroverts: Determinants of Your Personality Type
Description: Listen to this piece from the CBC radio program “The Current” that provides general account of how Personality types and theories actually map onto us and the world around us. Source: CBC Radio – The Current Date: December 23, 2014 Photo from the CBC The Current website Introverts and Extroverts: Determinants of Your Personality… Read more »
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