Home Staging isn't just about putting furniture here and putting art there. For award winning stager and decorator Kristie Barnett, it's a psychological thing. Barnett is known as The Decorologist, and she combines her experience in home decor and her graduate degrees in Psychology and Education to stage homes for sale and train others in the art of home decor. Barnett has staged homes in the past that have sold in days at top dollar through a unique system of Psychological Staging that she created for her success. "Buying and selling a home is a very emotionally-charged process," Barnett said. >>>

Children around the globe recognize and respond to scenarios that put them at an unfair disadvantage to their peers, while children in only a few societies correct conditions that place them at an unfair advantage over others, a Boston College researcher and her colleagues reported in a recent edition of the journal Nature. Assistant Professor of Psychology Katherine McAuliffe was among a team of psychologists, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists that devised a pioneering experiment to study how fairness develops in seven different societies. The researchers used an economic >>>

Brandon Smit(Photo: Ball State University)MUNCIE —  A Ball State University researcher is generating international publicity for proving there is a free and simple way to forget about work during off-hours.Psychology instructor Brandon Smit's study, published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, is creating headlines like the following in publications including New York Magazine, The Financial Times of London, Men's Health, The Economic Times of India and The Washington Post:• "Worrying about work when you are not at work"• "One way to stop obsessing over work >>>

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What do insects, cats, psychedelic drugs and the dating world have in common? They are all topics among the most popular psychology articles published here on BrainBlogger in 2015! You, our brain-bonkers readers, clearly know what’s hot: From the psychedelic assisted therapy movement with the potential to revolutionize pharmacotherapy; to globally influential mental health campaigns; and the gradual answering of some of the most deeply profound questions in psychology. We >>>

Q. Our daughter, who is in her late 40s, has become addicted to pain medication. She was taking it as prescribed for injuries received in a car accident, and now she is taking eight or nine pills a day. Could you please explain the dangers of these medications so that she and others will understand the problems of pain pill addiction?A. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the opiods that most addicts use are: hydrocodone (Vicodin), oxycodone (Oxycontin or Percocet), morphine and codeine. Taken incorrectly, these medications are extremely dangerous because they can kill by stopping >>>

Professor Glyn Humphreys, Watts Chair of Experimental Psychology and Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology, died suddenly on 14th January while in Hong Kong as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. The department released a statement on its website, noting that, “Psychology has lost a wonderful friend, a caring mentor and a brilliant scientist.”  Educated at Bristol University in the late 1970s and formerly holding a professorship at Birmingham University and special professorships in Germany and China, Professor Humphreys was described as a “world leading authority >>>

Confirmation bias is a tendency to seek and interpret information that agrees with our beliefs and expectations.Confirmation bias is particularly rampant currently, made worse perhaps because this is an election year when politicians are making outrageous claims that differ from reality.In essence, confirmation bias is a tendency to see and hear what we want to see and hear, even when reality differs from our perceptions. Psychology students learn in introductory courses that our brains interpret information from our senses to fit our expectations.The Earth-centered >>>

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January 22, 2016 Dr. Tess Neal with Arizona State University’s School of Social and Behavioral Sciences won the Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence in Psychology and Law, co-sponsored by the American Psychology-Law Society and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. Neal’s interdisciplinary research blends psychology, ethics and law to inform how people reach decisions in the legal system. The assistant professor focuses on how expert witnesses inform the decisions made by judges, lawyers and other members of the courts.  Through her >>>