People who think negatively about growing old are more likely to suffer brain changes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, say academics at Yale. 'I think, therefore I am’ the famous words of Descartes, is born out in a study by academics at Yale School of Public Health, which found individuals who internalize society’s negative views about ageing, can have brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s. Becca Levy, associate professor of public health and of psychology, said: “We believe it is the stress generated by the negative beliefs about ageing that individuals sometimes >>>

This article first appeared on The Conversation. Men commit over 85% of all homicides, 91% of all same-sex homicides and 97% of all same-sex homicides in which the victim and killer aren’t related to each other. These startling statistics are driven home with each new mass shooting (though the most recent tragedy in San Bernardino, California is a bit unusual in that a married couple were the shooters). In any event, politicians and the media are trotting out the usual suspects to explain the tragedy, whether it’s the lack of attention paid to mental illness or the easy availability of guns. >>>

The counseling psychology department at MU already has a long history of diversity training, but doctoral student Oscar Rojas Perez and professor Sonia Dhaliwal intend to expand on this reputation. Starting in the spring 2016, Perez and Dhaliwal will lead a class for graduate students titled Difficult Dialogues, offered by the counseling psychology department. The intention of the class is to create a “safe space for people to feel vulnerable” in talking about sensitive issues pertaining to minority groups, Dhaliwal said. Counseling psychology professor Francisco Sánchez said the department >>>

Shyam Sundar, Regional Director, Sports Authority of India (SAI), Bengaluru, said on Monday that sports science and sports psychology made the all the difference between winning and losing a game. He was speaking at the inaugural function of a three-day workshop on sports science ‘Sportsman – 2015’ organised by the Manipal University in association with SAI, here.Emphasising on the importance of science, Prof. Sundar said, “Generally, there is hardly any difference between the one who comes first and second. That difference lies in the realms of sports science and sports psychology.”“The >>>

Dr. Caryll Palmer Wilson, clinical psychologist, 64, passed away Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015, at home in the loving care of her family in Ceresco. She was born Aug. 3, 1951 to Edmund and Jeannette (Ferry) Hallowell in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. A passionate woman who lived life to the fullest, Caryll earned her pilot’s license and was flying her own plane by age 24. She later graduated from college summa cum laude and obtained her doctorate from the School Psychology program at UNL in Lincoln. She was the founder and president of the Wilson Behavioral Pediatric and Family Psychology Clinic (later >>>

This article was written by the “Law, Ethics, and Behaviorism” class taught by Dr. Michelle Williams. The class is a first-semester course in the Applied Behavior Analysis and Clinical Science graduate program. Many students seem inherently drawn to the study of psychology. Gaining a deeper understanding of why people behave the way they do really is fascinating. The specific area within psychology that promotes an understanding of behavior as primarily influenced by environmental factors is applied behavior analysis, or ABA. More specifically, behavior analysts are >>>

Your drinking habits might be linked to how much you work out, according to a new study out of the United States. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University examined the link between physical activity and alcohol. The study, published in the journal Health Psychology, found a “significant relationship” between daily physical activity and alcohol consumption, especially beer. While past studies have found a link between drinking and working out, this study went further to find out when people drank in relation to their workouts. “People drank more than usual on >>>

Dave Winsborough, Managing Director of Auckland and Wellington-based organisational psychology provider Winsborough, is taking up a three-year role as Vice President Innovation for the international Hogan Assessment business. Mr Winsborough, who is due to leave for New York on 27 December, will combine the Hogan role with his directorship of Winsborough, New Zealand’s largest team of organisational and leadership psychology experts. Mr Winsborough said he was excited about the opportunity to be at the cutting edge of emerging international developments and to ensure New Zealand businesses >>>

Courtesy: GSU / KNOE GRAMBLING, La (Press Release) - The HBCU Book Challenge began as an effort by Grambling State University’s Psychology and Sociology Club members to bring more reading materials to inmates in Louisiana. After seeing a small prison library with a shortage of books, club members were inspired to organize a book drive last spring that collected 225 books for the inmates at Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe. “This adventure got started when we were trying >>>

A team of neuroscientists has found new support for MIT linguist Noam Chomsky's decades-old theory that we possess an "internal grammar" that allows us to comprehend even nonsensical phrases. "One of the foundational elements of Chomsky's work is that we have a grammar in our head, which underlies our processing of language," explains David Poeppel, the study's senior researcher and a professor in New York University's Department of Psychology. "Our neurophysiological findings support this theory: we make sense of strings of words because our brains combine words into constituents in a hierarchical >>>