Co-author: Hans IJzerman is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Free University of Amsterdam. He is the Founding President of the In-Mind Foundation, which disseminates psychological knowledge to a public audience. His research interests included grounded cognitive processes, emotion regulation and the social regulation of body temperature.

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Co-author: Hans IJzerman is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Free University of Amsterdam. He is the Founding President of the In-Mind Foundation, which disseminates psychological knowledge to a public audience. His research interests included grounded cognitive processes, emotion regulation and the social regulation of body temperature.Just a decade ago, a telephone call was the primary means of contacting distant friends. Now, we are more likely to Facebook, tweet, Skype, Instagram or Snapchat a friend than to call her. By upending how >>>

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Anna Jackson, Staff Writer
November 11, 2015

According to a recent study from the University of Essex, women who are identified as heterosexual ‘very rarely are’. Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, this research led by Dr. Gerulf Rieger found out that "straight women were strongly sexually stirred up by videos of both attractive men and attractive women". Like Us on Facebook Medical Daily included on its report that although previous researches have shown how women can be sexually stimulated by both sexes at varying degrees, the differences in "arousal between straight and gay women has been overlooked". >>>

Students seeking to book an appointment at Student Psychological Services (SPS) are facing a waiting list dozens of people long and a wait time of a week or more. >>>

While chanting “hold the burgers hold the fries, make our wages supersized,” activists and UT students rallied Tuesday on the steps of City Hall to support worker’s rights. Beginning at 6 a.m., organizers formed a strike line and marched through several Austin businesses, including Taco Bell, McDonald’s and Church’s Chicken, where they were able to pick up a few supporters as part of a National Day of Action for a $15 minimum wage. “We’re going around shop to shop, talking to workers one-on-one, sitting down having meals, building those relationships,” Brad Crowder, branch organizer >>>

By Emma King, Staff Writer This week is school psychology awareness week, bringing attention to a field that a lot of students don’t know exists. Dr. Alexander Beaujean, Baylor’s School Psychology Program Director, said school psychology is always one of the top social service professions in the nation. This year, the U.S. News’ list of best social service jobs ranked school psychology No. 1. Beaujean said the purpose of the week is to inform students, faculty and families of the skills and services that school psychologists have and provide. “The main thing school psychologists >>>

The PHOENIX asked students: “What’s your biggest pet peeve when riding the shuttle?” Fabiola Gutierrez, Sophomore, Psychology and Spanish “I like that the shuttle takes less time than the El, but I feel like it’s less reliable >>>

Cal State San Marcos researchers have tapped behavioral sciences experts to help the Olivenhain Municipal Water District achieve state-mandated water cuts.University interns this summer handed out door hangers with five different conservation messages to 11,000 households in the district, and the researchers later tracked water use at these homes to see how residents responded. A “collective action and commitment” door hanger netted the best results — a 6.5 percent drop in water use. This hanger featured examples of residents reducing their water use, which worked because people tend to follow >>>