Mother-daughter counsellors Susan and Janelle Vanderwerff have teamed up to not only open a new practice, Encourage Counselling, but they are also offering an upcoming parenting workshop.Susan has spent several years working in private practice in South Delta. Janelle grew up in Tsawwassen and took her first psychology course while attending South Delta Secondary.When she was working on her undergraduate degree, Janelle decided to major in psychology and recently graduated from Adler University >>>

With the groundbreaking of a new academic building set to begin in December, campus faculty and Berkeley community members anticipate a new Downtown facility that hopes to further integrate the campus into the greater Berkeley community. Berkeley Way West, scheduled to break ground Dec. 21, will become the new home of the campus Graduate School of Education and the department of psychology in lieu of their current seismically unsafe facility, Tolman Hall. The building, which will be located at Berkeley Way and Shattuck Avenue, will be the first university facility in the Downtown area. Additionally, >>>

Not too many people can watch Pixar’s Inside Out without feeling somewhat transformed. The common reaction is walking out the theater in mute admiration and waking up the next morning feeling as though they were seeing the world with new eyes.But is the psychology of Inside Out accurate?The Nerdwriter, a video essayist named Evan Puschak, broke down the history of the thinking behind Inside Out.A primer if you forgot: Inside Out posits that we’re ruled by five anthropomorphic emotions sitting inside a control room, running our behavior. That theory is based on the work of Paul Ekman, who said >>>

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The lessons learned growing up on a Saskatchewan farm in the 1920s were ones Jean Pettifor held close. It was a time not easily forgotten. Even in her 90th year, as she was being acknowledged internationally for her work, the renowned Calgary psychologist spoke of the values of her childhood, back on the family farm in Unity during the dark, uneasy days of the Great Depression. “I grew up in an atmosphere on the farm that we have got to solve problems with regard to war and peace, with regard to the economic distribution of goods, with regard to health care, with regard to education. Growing >>>

Susanna Blakemore’s Psychology 11 class at Carihi isn’t what most people think of when they hear the term. For most, it’s about how the brain works, and that sounds daunting. Yes, her class is about, “the study of behaviour and the mind,” Blakemore says, but to her it’s more important to examine the context of that idea – and the context of human behaviour is a pretty broad thing. Wait – that sounds even more daunting. And they examine it in as many ways as they can. “We are always holistic, now,” Blakemore says, her class working independently while >>>

Learn how to get people’s attention with a headline and what it takes to get customers to take action. An introductory seminar on the mechanics of advertising psychology and what works to get people’s attention is being offered on Dec. 9 through the Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce. Advertising Psychology: Words With Results will be presented by Daniel Dyette, the owner and CEO of Aldergrove’s Answerswanted Services Inc. It will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce boardroom (207 8047 199 St.). Participants need to bring their >>>

Students from the psychology department at Weber State studied students to see the affect cellphones have on test scores. (Emily Ferguson / The Signpost) Weber State University students teamed up to research and learn about the effects smartphone addiction on test taking anxiety amongst college students. Jake Ombach and J’lene Rea, along with assistant psychology professor Shannon McGillivary, wanted to learn more about cellphones and how those can cause anxiety. “We use smartphones in a number of ways, obviously to connect with people but also for a source of information,” McGillivary >>>

Mental Disorder Is Going To Affect Over 3 Million Malaysians By 2020 – Will You Be One Of Them? Details Published on Friday, 04 December 2015 00:38 Written by Lakshiny The warning signs are already there. Back in 2013, the Health Ministry's findings warned that by the year 2020, 10% of Malaysians will be affected by mental illness. This follows on from a poll on National Health and Morbidity 2011 which indicate that 12% of Malaysians already suffer from some form of psychological morbidity, in short, at least 1 in 10 Malaysians will face some kind of mental ailment in >>>

Cyclists breathe the brunt of harmful pollution, commuter study finds

Air quality experts have exposed a sad irony to the seemingly healthy choice of bicycling to work: Though cyclists are reaping the benefits of exercise, they may be losing in their exposure to harmful air pollution.