LONDON, Nov. 11 -- Aon Hewitt, a subsidiary of Aon, issued the following news release:Aon Hewitt, the global human resource consulting and outsourcing business of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AON), has announced that Jessica Everitt has joined its UK Engagement team as a Project Manager.Aon Hewitt's well-established Engagement team examines how organisations can use employee engagement as a key performance metric to measure their resilience and sustainabilityJessica Everitt, who joins Aon Hewitt from global insurance company XL Services, has an MSc in Occupational Psychology from >>>

Posted: Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:05 am `Tasty Colors and Colored Sounds' will be the lecture topic at Elizabethtown College 0 comments As part of the Elizabethtown College Inaugural Scholarship Lecture Series Catherine Lemley, Elizabethtown College professor of psychology and Department of Psychology chair, will talk about synesthesia, a fascinating phenomenon in which one sense is triggered by another. The lecture >>>

Advertisement A woman’s marital status, income level and age can affect the likelihood of depression after breast cancer, a University of Missouri researcher has found. And that depression can cause a snag in treatment because patients who suffer from it are less likely to adhere to medication regimens. Ann Bettencourt, a professor of psychological sciences at MU, studied who is most likely to experience distress after a diagnosis and through the course of treatment. She found evidence that single women and those >>>

Alya’s mother and Monica from ‘Friends’ may well have been twins separated at birth judging by their freakishly obsessive nature to clean. She often regales to others the numerous dirt inspections of her apartment she has had to suffer through each time mom visits. Alya, along with the rest of her family, have concluded that mom must suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).  But what is OCD? Do you, like Alya, use OCD as a label a bit too loosely without really considering what it means?  The Oxford >>>

November football games at Beaver Stadium are supposed to be raucous celebrations, particularly in a season that has been so unexpectedly successful. After a wrenching week that frankly has no precedent, no one knows what to expect, or even how to feel. What will it be like without Joe Paterno? SEAN SIMMERS,The Patriot-NewsBryan Cook and Elliot Wunsch of Hamilton, Ontario pitch a tent in Paternoville outside Beaver Stadium. The pair left Canada at 8 a.m. because they are huge Joe Paterno fans. Will the game have the feel of a memorial service? Will protesters outside the stadium provoke a >>>

As the world's first tobacco plain packaging legislation is passed through Parliament, a researcher from the University of Western Sydney says removing the brands from cigarettes is an important step towards deglamorising smoking for young women.Dr Emilee Gilbert from the School of Psychology at UWS has completed a qualitative study of young women's perceptions and attitudes toward smoking.The findings clearly indicated that the visual appearance and brands of cigarette packets have a strong influence on people's decisions to take up and continue smoking."As smokers often carry their packs >>>

Mahatma Gandhi understood only too well the destructive power of greed. "God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west," he warned. "If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."Those words ring only too true in the ears of Malini Mehra, founder and CEO of the Centre for Social Markets, a non-profit organisation that has pioneered work on sustainability and corporate responsibility in India.Those hoping the developing world will avoid adopting the destructive nature of western consumerism are naïve, >>>

One pulls rabbits from a hat, the other pulls habits from a rat. See, I said it was hilarious. In fact psychology is full of jokes. Just think of anything ever said, written, thought or published by Freud or Jung. Hilarious, pseudoscientific, implausible and non-falsifiable nonsense. But habits are one of the things psychologists think about a lot. During my own, mercifully brief time in a Psychological Medicine Department one of our key tasks was to teach people ways of overcoming the psychologically dangerous habits they'd developed. Habits like anxiety attacks, phobic reactions to certain situations >>>

C. Kevin Gillespie, S.J., '72, was named the 27th president of Saint Joseph's University in an announcement sent to the university community on Thursday evening. He will be replacing interim president John Smithson, '68, and former president Timothy R. Lannon, who left St. Joe's in June. Gillespie's position as president will begin on July 1, 2012. Gillespie is a 1972 graduate of St. Joe's and a native Philadelphian. He returns to his alma mater from Loyola University Chicago, where he is currently serving as the associate provost at the University Centers of Excellence there. Gillespie >>>