Frank T McAndrew, Knox CollegeThe Haunted House is a time-honored horror setting. All of us have shivered our way through spooky flicks such as The Haunting, The Amityville Horror, The Sentinel and Poltergeist.It’s not only at the movies that we pay good money to frighten ourselves to death: commercial haunted houses are an integral part of 21st-century Halloween theater, with an estimated 5,000 such attractions operating in the United States each year.The portrayal of cinematic haunted houses has remained remarkably consistent across time, and the architects of our annual macabre Halloween rituals >>>

The time has come. It’s the zombie apocalypse. You’re approaching a zombie hoard with a group of several other brain-intact companions, and you need to figure out the best way to run past them. Where should you turn? First, perhaps you should turn to social psychology. There is an infamous parable, a now-classic staple in psychology classrooms across the country, about Kitty Genovese -- the woman who was supposedly murdered in Queens in front of dozens of onlookers who failed to do anything to help, each person assuming that the other bystanders would assume responsibility.1 This phenomenon >>>

Linguists and psychologists have been using the content of messages on Twitter to learn more about our society - in areas such as gender, age trends and politics. Now, a new study by computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found that the behaviors of Twitter users also correlate with their income levels.The team of researchers, led by Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro of Penn's Positive Psychology Center, analyzed more than 10 million posts of 5,191 publicly available Twitter user profiles. The data was collected in August 2014, and the most recent 3,000 posts from each person were >>>

Feminazis are extreme feminists, and as much as they hate men, they hate themselves more, a new report by a team of researchers into the schizoid psychosis of extreme feminism revealed. “These women who spout such extreme hatred towards any form of masculinity are trapped within a vicious circle of self-hatred and their only discourse is to lash out at men because they feel such emotional pain within their own psyche. “The feminazi doctrine is to ‘kill all men’ and they even have a popular misandric twitter hash tag #killallmen that is frequently updated by extreme feminists fantasising >>>

ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week. This week, in honor of Halloween, our colleagues across HuffPost explored the science of our most commons fears and how we can overcome them. We were also captivated by a frightening article about extreme sleepwalking, a sleep disorder that can result in the sleeper turning violent without any knowledge of his or her actions. And on a disturbing note, we spent time with a story about the role of identity politics on the war on drugs in America, and how, as an increasing number of white middle-class families are torn >>>

PortCityDaily.com is your source for free news and information in the Wilmington area.UNCW’s psychology department will add a Ph.D. program, as will the nursing school, in an effort to better serve the healthcare needs of N.C. residents. Photo courtesy UNCW/Jamie Moncrief.UNC-Wilmington will soon double its doctoral offerings. University spokeswoman Janine Iamunno reported Friday that the UNC Board of Governors has approved two new programs–leading to Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees. UNCW currently offers a Ph.D. in Marine Biology annd an Ed.D. in Educational >>>

For eight days, the female volunteers will live inside a wood-panelled suite of rooms at Moscow's Institute of Biomedical Problems, renowned for its wacky research into the psychological and physical effects of space travel. And can they cope without makeup? Volunteers for the project include psychologists, doctors, and scientific researchers; over the eight days, the crew will carry out ten experiments focusing on psychology and biology."It will be particularly interesting in terms of psychology", said the institute's director Igor Ushakov."It's interesting for us to see what is special about >>>

Posted October 31, 2015 14:35:06 Photo: Trick or treating during Halloween has been the topic of much interest among psychologists, who say the occasion brings out excess and greed among adults and children alike. (Reuters: Mike Segar) Halloween is upon us. The spirits of the departed return to haunt the living and demons roam the land.Predictably, scary movies flood television screens and packs of costumed, >>>

In the name of science, Todd Thrash isn't above scaring the bejesus out of people.Or rendering them teary-eyed, awed or sentimental. An associate professor of psychology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Thrash studies "the chills" — that spine-tingly sensation elicited by a wide range of human emotions, from fear to revelation to sexual attraction.His research was inspired in part by his own experiences, and by the fact there's still so little research on the topic. "I was noticing that I got chills pretty frequently and didn't really have >>>

(NBC NEWS) -- Psychology majors across the country are less than psyched after 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush dissed their field of study.The Republican contender implied at a town hall in South Carolina on Saturday that psychology degrees don't lead to good job prospects."Universities ought to have skin in the game," the Republican contender said at a town hall in South Carolina on Saturday. "When a student shows up, they ought to say 'Hey, that psych major deal, that philosophy major thing, that's great.' It's important to have liberal arts ... but realize, you're going to be working at >>>