Students skilled at multimedia comprehension get higher grades with Web-based than lecture courses, but they still don't like them, according to a new study.
Helping Americans deal with the antecedents and aftermath of 9/11, understanding cults of hatred and the psychology of terrorism, and new models of health care delivery will be prominent themes of the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
Experiments show that people usually see what falls in the lower region of a figure-ground picture as the "figure," not the "ground," providing another example of how many perceptual phenomena are easily overlooked in everyday life because our visual systems are extraordinarily efficient.
People's risk for hypertension associated with having a parental history of hypertension may be influenced by observing how their parents handled stress, says researchers who examined relations among numerous behavioral responses and family history of hypertension.
Psychologist Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D., will be presenting her new study, Coping with Stressful Life Events: Navigating in the Wake of 9/11 at the annual Capitol Hill Exhibit and Reception sponsored by the Coalition for National Science Funding May 15, 2002 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the Rayburn House Office Building.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture with natural colors may be worth a million, memory-wise. Psychologists have documented that "living color" does more than appeal to the senses. It also boosts memory for scenes in the natural world. The findings shed light on how the visual system efficiently exploits color information.
New research points toward the use of neuro-psychological testing to identify people at risk for Alzheimer's Disease, well ahead of the onset of clinical signs.
New research reveals that people misperceive how sounds change when both their pitch and loudness change. This could lead to mistakes for those that rely on devices that emit sounds to tell people what's happening in bodies, structures and machines.
Children from divorced families who either live with both parents at different times or spend certain amounts of time with each parent are better adjusted in most cases than children who live and interact with just one parent, according to new research on custody arrangements and children's adjustment.
New research shows that teachers that emphasize learning rather than performance may help prevent students from using avoidance strategies and prevent some students from dropping out of school.
People who use the internet to gamble may have more serious gambling problems than those who use slot machines or play the lottery, according to a new study that is among the first to evaluate the prevalence of internet gambling.
More than 19 million Americans suffer from depression yearly and women are twice as likely as men to experience a major depressive episode, according to a new report highlighting research reviewed by 35 internationally renowned experts from a variety of disciplines.
Designers of navigation systems for the visually impaired can tap new evidence of the mind's ability to update its internal "maps" relative to the body, using audio sounds or verbal directions with equal effectiveness. The findings can foster tools that not only get people from one point to another, but also help them build better mental images of their total environment -- including important places (such as pay phones or shops) not directly in their path.
Depending on what character traits you desire in a mate, you may want to look at his or her office or bedroom. If you're looking for someone who's extroverted and agreeable, you'd probably do better meeting him or her. In fact, according to new research by a University of Texas, Austin psychologist and his colleagues, personal spaces such as bedrooms and offices are an incredibly rich source of information about people's personalities.
A three-day interdisciplinary conference, "Enhancing Outcomes in Women's Health: Translating Psychosocial and Behavioral Research into Primary Care, Community Interventions and Health Policy," will take place in Washington DC from February 21-23, 2002.
It is estimated that 15-57 percent of older adults experience some form of chronic depression for a period of time later in their lives, according to recent research, and this may compromise their ability to fight off infections and cancers.
Greater intellectual resources may, according to a new study of Vietnam veterans, help buffer soldiers from developing post-traumatic stress disorder after combat.
Family strength and socioeconomic status can make a positive difference in a child's recovery from traumatic brain injury, according to a new study.
Severe closed-head injury, like that caused in a car accident, can impair the ability for purposeful learning, for example in school or on the job. However, there is cause for hope: Psychologists have evidence that severe-CHI survivors may still be able to learn without awareness that they're learning.
Although women are less likely than men to abuse alcohol, those that do suffer the same kinds of neuropsychological problems as alcoholic men. And, the problems, including impaired working memory and visuospatial abilities, remain months after alcoholic women stop drinking.
Neural plasticity rather than a general measure better defines the potentials and limitation of intelligence, according to an analysis of 124 studies of the underlying basis of intelligence.
While the cause of eating disorders is still unknown, new research suggests that depression and difficulty expressing one's feelings may be a risk factor for disordered eating in young women with a history of family problems or abuse.
The belief that women are more likely than men to quit their managerial jobs for family or other reasons -- a belief that could be the cause of discrimination in women's hiring or promotion -- may be outdated, according to new research on the turnover rates of male and female managers.
Psychologists may have found the "missing link" between the aging brain and declining cognitive abilities, via studies that show where younger and older people part ways in "context processing."
Psychologists find that over-attention to well-learned performances may make things worse ("choking" under pressure). However, training that way may actually improve performance under pressure.
When we say that people "know their way around," we really mean they're smart. Now, psychologists have evidence that strong visuospatial skills and working memory may be at least as good as verbal skills and working memory as indicators of general intelligence.
Couples that participate in and find meaning in religious holiday rituals such as decorating the home for the holidays or lighting candles may be making their marriages stronger.
People have prejudices toward others that they are sometimes unaware of and therefore cannot easily control or change. It doesn't have to be this way, according to social psychologists who examine the plasticity of attitudes. A new study finds that automatic or nonconscious negative attitudes (prejudices) can be altered more easily by changing the social environment that people inhabit instead of relying on the prejudiced person to be motivated to change their internal beliefs.
An analysis of 62 studies that looked at how men and women define sexual harassment finds little difference in what both genders believe constitutes the more serious types of harassment, but did find gender-based disagreement about the more subtle forms of harassing behavior.
Does coming from a family full of "lefties"tend to make a person better at remembering events? The data from two recent experiments answer in the affirmative. What's more, psychologists may finally be able to explain why kids don't remember events until they are about four years old.
More non-human animals may be capable of abstract thought than previously known, with profound implications for the evolution of human intelligence and the stuff that separates homo sapiens from other animals.
Many are finding it hard to concentrate after television viewing of reports of the aftermath of hijackings of four U.S. airlines. The reason people can't shift their attention back so easily to their normal routines, say experts on anxiety and visual attention, is that threatening images hold our attention much longer than non-threatening ones, especially for those who were feeling anxious before the attacks.
People read personality into a synthetic voice even when they know that it's made by a computer. What's more, if the "voice" mirrors their personalities, people will like and be more readily influenced by that voice.
Two German psychologists have found a better way to teach basic statistical concepts, based on the way people naturally weigh the odds. This approach can help patients, and the doctors who advise them, more accurately assess the meaning of test results.
How can we help kids cross streets more safely? Improving their abilities to concentrate and switch their attention may be part of the answer. British psychologists studied these two central attentional skills in children ages four to 10 in relation to how safely they crossed the street. The results suggest that children who can concentrate and switch their attention better may cross more safely.
At the University of Arizona, new psychological research gives hope to people who fear they'll lose their memory as they age. Researchers have found that contrary to popular belief, only some people over 65 suffer greater losses in "source (contextual) memory" than in memory for facts and items.
It's long been thought that the common phobias of snakes and spiders are reminders of homo sapiens' primal past. Now new studies suggest that human perception evolved to accurately and efficiently spot these environmental threats.
About 21 percent of adolescents surveyed in middle school in Oakland, California reported being depressed enough to consider suicide. The majority of these youths also used drugs and engaged in illegal activities.
Cognitive researchers can now recommend a tool that can keep older drivers on the road longer and safer by measuring and even improving their visual information processing, an important measure of driving ability.
Nearly one in ten girls and one in twenty boys report experiencing violence and/or being raped on a date, according to a survey of 81,247 ninth and twelfth grade boys and girls in Minnesota public schools.
Transracial adoptees' exposure and competence in their birth culture may not be necessary for good psychological adjustment, according to a study involving young adult transracial adoptees.
The benefits of sports involvement may be different for youths growing up in urban vs. rural areas, according to the results of two studies.
Young adolescents who participate in religious activities evaluated themselves more positively than youths who don't participate in religious activities, according to a national survey of eighth graders that examined self-esteem of early adolescents.
New scientific studies reveal the hidden costs of multitasking, key findings as technology increasingly tempts people to do more than one thing (and increasingly, more than one complicated thing) at a time.
A new study confirms earlier research on both verbal and motor learning that practicing several different skills in separate, concentrated blocks leads to better performance during practice but not during the actual task.
Two new studies find that personality and job complexity can influence the health and safety of industrial workers and firefighters.
To recognize faces and identify facial expression, both with equal skill, pre-pubescent boys use more of their right brain and pre-pubescent girls use more of their left brain. This suggests that men and women who suffer brain injuries will benefit from different treatment regimes.
Memory "illusions" may result from the basic human need to make sense out of events. A series of experiments has provided the first scientific evidence that when people see effects without also seeing its cause, they automatically "fill in the blank" with that probable cause.
Presenting further proof that jurors are vulnerable to human error, psychologists at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management found significant evidence of a deep bias affecting both students and prospective jurors.
Attitudes are learned, but new research shows that differences between people in many attitudes are also partly attributable to genetic factors. These include attitudes as diverse as whether one likes roller coaster rides to controversial social issues.
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