UCSC sophomore Kellie Melendres turns off the tap while brushing her teeth in her Cowell College apartment. (Dan Coyro -- Santa Cruz Sentinel) SANTA CRUZ It’s nearly impossible to avoid the water conservation messages on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Posters on bulletin boards give statistics on water usage. Placards by sinks give subtle reminders about the drought. Even in the shower, you’re not safe: five-minute timers remind students to keep it short.It’s a campus-wide >>>

ABERDEEN, S.D. - The South Dakota Board of Regents this week granted South Dakota State University approval to offer a new master’s degree designed to help organizations manage workforce planning and leadership development. The M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology is a unique sub-discipline of psychology that applies research to improve the well-being and performance of employees and their organizations. This field of specialization is identified as one of the fastest-growing occupations across the country. SDSU >>>

Students are showing initiative to educate others and fight stigma. In efforts to promote awareness about depression and other mental illnesses on college campuses, the St. Ambrose Psychology Club and Psci Chi Chapter will be hosting their National Depression Screening Day (NDSD) event Thursday, Oct. 8. At the event, students will be able to complete a psychological screening measure and receive feedback from Master's of Social Work and Counseling students about the extent to which their symptoms are suggestive of Major Depression. Although a diagnosis cannot be made during this feedback session, >>>

Survey Calls For Allies Of LGBT Community BY BTL STAFF Originally printed 10/8/2015 (Issue 2341 - Between The Lines News) print email facebook twitter stumble upon Google Plus FARMINGTON HILLS - A new study is calling for allies of the LGBT community to shed light on their experience in the current fight for LGBT equality. Kate Caddy, PsyS, M.A., TLLP and doctoral candidate researcher at the Michigan School of Professional Psychology, is calling for LGBT allies to participate in an extended >>>

Steve Rannazzisi — the comedian most known for his role on FX’s The League, for his Buffalo Wild Wings ads, for elaborately lying about having escaped 9/11, and for subsequently losing the wings ads over said lie — appeared on Howard Stern yesterday to address the 9/11 controversy. His tale came to light as false last month — though he’d been telling it for years. On the Marc Maron podcast in 2009, for example, it had expanded from the statement that he “was sort of the party starter of Merrill Lynch…until [their] building got hit with a plane.” Though he’d tweeted >>>

by Wild Blueberry Association of North America Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 9:04AM EDT PORTLAND, Maine  — A new British study published today in the European Journal Of Nutrition reveals that when children consume wild blueberries they show greater memory and better concentration. This study, led by Professor Claire Williams, from the School of Psychology Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading, is the first detailed examination of the effects of wild blueberries on cognition in children using multiple doses and test sessions.  The study, >>>

This question originally appeared on Quora: What is the psychology behind FOMO? Answer by Anita Sanz, clinical psychologist. The fear of missing out is an ancient fear currently triggered by the newest form of communication: social media. Our survival as an individual within a tribe, and thus our survival as a species, once hinged on our being aware of threats both to ourselves and to the larger group. To be “in the know” when we roamed around in small groups was critical to survival. To not be aware of a new food source, for example, meant you literally missed out on something that could >>>

Employment Technologies Director of Research Awarded Full Membership in SIOP WINTER PARK, FL (PRWEB) October 07, 2015 Mary Ann Bucklan, Director of Research at Employment Technologies, was recently awarded full membership into the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). She joins the more than 8,000 scientists and professionals around the world who work to understand, measure, and predict human behavior in organizations – dedicated to advancing the field of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology. Headquartered in Florida, Employment Technologies creates >>>

So is there any hard evidence that mindfulness-based therapies work? Well, the clinical evidence for mindfulness as a way to prevent depression, stress and anxiety appears at first glance to be sound. A review of the eight-week course was published in 2011 in Clinical Psychology Review by Jacob Piet and Esben Hougaard of Aarhus University, Denmark. After looking at six clinical trials involving 593 people, they concluded that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduced the risk of relapse for patients with at least three previous incidents of depression by 43% compared with people who >>>

Many people believe weight loss is the key to happiness but one Adelaide university researcher has found it may work the other way around.A study of obese patients has shown that people are more likely to lose weight if they focus on being happy, rather than dieting, University of Adelaide psychologist Sharon Robertson says.She also says obese people have lower levels of emotional wellbeing, which helps prevent weight loss. "There's no joy in focusing on weight loss, particularly if someone is constantly failing to lose weight," Ms Robertson said on Wednesday."Positive psychology techniques >>>