New research explores the hypothesis that adolescents become less similar to their friends and more similar to romantic partners after they start a new romantic relationship.The complaint that a person is not the same after they began dating is a familiar lament. In the new study, researchers from Florida Atlantic University studied how people change when they enter a relationship and if health risk behaviors — such as alcohol consumption — also change or remain the same.Investigators discovered adolescents who dated were more similar to dating partners than to friends on measures of alcohol >>>

A new measurement tool, the Emotional Processing Scale (EPS), developed by researchers at Bournemouth University may help professionals to identify pregnant women who are particularly at risk of postnatal depression. That is the conclusion of research being presented at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology today by Dr Carol Wilkins from Bournemouth University. Together with Professor  Roger Baker, Professor of Clinical psychology at Bournemouth University Clinical Research Unit, and other colleagues Dr Wilkins asked 974 women, aged >>>

The first history of the profession of clinical psychology in Britain is being launched today at a London conference. ‘Clinical Psychology in Britain: Historical Perspectives’ is edited by John Hall, David Pilgrim and Graham Turpin, and published by the BPS History of Psychology Centre. It is being launched at the annual conference of the Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) today. Written by clinical psychologists, academic psychologists and historians, the book identifies key transitions in the work and thinking of clinical psychologists. It discusses British clinical >>>

The Council on Academic Affairs will revise the finance major and add a new class on educational psychology, computer programming and computer data basing at its meeting Thursday. Changes are being made to the finance major, including the core classes students have to taken. Marita Gronnvoll, the CAA chair, said the department has a FIN 3770 class, which they are no longer requiring. FIN 3770 is now being classified as an elective class, and the number of core courses in the finance degree will be three instead of four. Currently, students have to take five elective classes. With the changes to >>>

By Emily Curtsinger– Steven Maier, who is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Center of Neuroscience at the University of Colorado-Boulder, has been awarded the 2016 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Maier has been praised for discovering a brain mechanism that produces resilience to trauma and also aids in coping with future adversity. This was the 16th psychology award given. His work regarding what makes one resistant or vulnerable to stress when adversity is presented has been replicated >>>

Print THE RATING GAME—Arianna Young, an assistant professor of psychology at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, was part of a team that performed studies on dating. It’s a familiar dating problem: In the quest to meet a soulmate, we sometimes find our ideal notion of a person—what “looks good on paper”—isn’t what we’re actually attracted to in real life. What, then, do women really want? Well, the jury’s still out on that one. But when it comes to men, what they really don’t want is a woman >>>

Say you’ve got some money to invest and you’re trying to figure out if the stock market will go up or down. Should you ask one expert’s advice? Or should you ask lots of people what they think?Although it may seem counterintuitive, you’ll likely get the best estimate of stock market volatility by asking many investors rather than one trusted financial adviser. Research shows that averaging the guesses of a large number of people is almost always more accurate than an individual estimate.This is just one of the many nuggets of advice in the new book by Tom Gilovich, the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld >>>

A brainy psychology student who speaks four languages says she isn't taken seriously - because she looks like a Barbie doll. Not only is Ashton Clarke, 22, a scholarship student at the University of Tennessee , she can speak Norwegian, Persian and Spanish and is an exhibited artist. But despite her achievements, she says people often underestimate her because of her fondness for the 'Barbie look'. At the age of 16, Ashton gave herself a dramatic makeover and started styling herself like a Barbie. To emulate the look, she dyes her hair blonde, applies fake tan, undergoes lip fillers and wears >>>

Being drunk in love can really change how drunk you choose to become with alcohol, at least if you’re a teenager. That’s the finding reached by a team of researchers in Developmental Psychology this past November. The study authors analyzed over a thousand teenagers’ drinking habits, finding that rates of alcohol abuse were more similar between friends without any current romantic relationships than between friendships in which one had a partner. In fact, for teens with a romantic attachment, their level of alcohol abuse was more likely to match their partner’s drinking habits than >>>