WASHINGTON — Time may appear to slow down for white Americans who feel threatened by an approaching black person, raising questions about the pervasive effects of racial bias or anxiety in the United States, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. In a series of experiments, white adults viewed faces of white and black people who appeared to be moving toward them on a computer screen. Participants rated the apparent speed or approximate time that each face was on the screen and completed a survey that measured their anxiety when around people of a different >>>

Psychology may not be the most popular field students choose to dedicate their time to. Regardless, psychologists play an important part in many people’s lives, aiding others in maintaining their mental health. With respect to the importance psychology has, Nov. 9 through Nov. 13 has been dubbed National School Psychology Awareness Week. This year’s theme is “Connect the Dots and Thrive.” As the National Association of School Psychologists explains on its website, “We all have potential for greatness… [but] sometimes we are just blinded to the possibilities. In those times, >>>

All women are gay, new findings suggest.  After having male and female participants look at videos of both naked men and naked women, researchers found that self-identified "straight" women became aroused when looking at naked women. However, self-identified straight men were not aroused by naked men. Share This Story "Most women responded to both videos of attractive men and women with substantial [genital] arousal as well as pupil dilation," lead researcher Gerulf Rieger of the University of Essex's Department >>>

To be clear, straight women can be aroused by images of women. In scientific terms, they would, indeed be bisexual—in that they are attracted to both sexes. But when we use the word bisexual, we’re usually referring to both sexual and romantic identification. In other words, when we think of bisexuality, we’re often imagining women and men who are not only aroused by both sexes—but who would date both sexes. So, yes, these women can be called bisexual, but that’s also oversimplifying things.

I shouldn’t have to type this but: Straight women are real. You might even be one yourself and, if not, you almost certainly know a few. But that didn’t stop dozens of media outlets from rushing to press this week with decade-old research to declare that heterosexual women are a figment of your imagination. “New Study Claims Women Are Bisexual or Lesbian—Not Straight” wrote Yahoo. Other headline choices ranged from the downright rude “Don’t Believe Women Who Say They’re Straight” to the overly confident “Women Are Either Bisexual Or Gay But ‘Never Straight’.”That’s not >>>

If you are a woman who happens to call yourself straight, there's a researcher who says you're lying. Gerulf Rieger, PhD, is basing this assertion on a study he published recently in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In the study, 345 women who identified as either straight or lesbian were shown erotic videos of women and men. Researchers then measured the women's genital arousal and pupil dilation — two signs of sexual response — and concluded that "women are, on average, physiologically sexually aroused to both male and female sexual stimuli." They added that "lesbians are >>>

The Viterbi School of Engineering and the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences has teamed up under Morteza Dehghani, assistant professor of psychology and computer science, to create Text Analysis, Crawling and Interpretation Tool. TACIT allows research psychologists to analyze text from online sources, such as social media profiles. Its architecture allows use of multiple plugins, which will make textual analysis easier for researchers. “Currently [text analysis] techniques are available as independent programs or software, but they require a lot of expertise and because social scientists >>>

Copyright © 2015 Albuquerque Journal A review of multiple city contracts worth nearly half a million dollars held by Albuquerque Police Department psychologist Troy Rodgers has found “the appearance of potential wrongdoing and questionable business practices” by APD and Rodgers, according to a report by the Office of Internal Audit. RODGERS: Has done contract work for the city since 2005 Notably, Rodgers, who for about five years had been the acting director of the department’s Behavioral Sciences Division, was in charge of signing off on expenses incurred by his own companies – Forensic >>>

"Equus" sets the scene in an instant: Teenager Alan Strang is being held in an English psychiatric hospital after savagely and inexplicably blinding six horses at the stable where he worked. * * * ½ Stars | DramaThe young man refuses to speak to his therapist, Martin Dysart, responding instead by singing TV commercial jingles. Dysart is sure he can get to the psychological heart of the crime, but confides that he's beginning to wonder about the ethics of his work. He treats an endless stream of disturbed youths and questions whether he should be thanked for returning them to dull, average >>>

Stanley Milgram's now famous obedience to authority (OTA) experiments, conducted in 1963, 1965, and 1974, shocked the world and are still among the most well-known experiments of all time in social psychology. Attempting to find scientific explanations for the Holocaust (Russell, 2011), Milgram designed the experiment to test ordinary people’s susceptibility to authority. Subjects were instructed to administer increasingly strong electric shocks via a specially designed fake shock generator to a victim in another room, even when the subject protested (Milgram, 1963). In his >>>