January 15, 2016 ASU professor says best way to keep resolutions is to make them 'SMART' It's the middle of January. How are those New Year's resolutions going? If you're like most people, they're swiftly receding from memory. According to Forbes, 63 percent of Americans make resolutions, but only 8 percent keep them. So why do we bother, year after year, if the failure rate is so high? Paul Karoly, a psychology professor at Arizona State University, might know why. Karoly studies goals and >>>

Psychological therapy may yield greater benefits if providers can meet patients' preferences, a UK study suggests.Most of the nearly 15,000 study participants had treatment preferences - and those whose preferences weren't met were less likely to say the treatments helped with their problems, the researchers report in BMC Psychiatry."When it comes to psychological therapies, it’s critical that people are invested in them and they engage in them fully," said senior author Dr. Mike Crawford, of Imperial College London. "When people don’t engage in them fully, they’re less likely to benefit >>>

By Andrew M. Seaman Psychological therapy may yield greater benefits if providers can meet patients' preferences, a UK study suggests. Most of the nearly 15,000 study participants had treatment preferences - and those whose preferences weren't met were less likely to say the treatments helped with their problems, the researchers report in BMC Psychiatry. "When it comes to psychological therapies, it’s critical that people are invested in them and they engage in them fully," said senior author Dr. Mike Crawford, of Imperial College London. "When people don’t engage in them >>>

Laurentian University has confirmed it has received more complaints related to long-standing psychology professor Michael Persinger, who was forced to stop teaching his first-year psychology class in December.The university has assigned an employee in its the human resources department to sift through the complaints.Laurentian could not confirm how many complaints have been filed.When contacted Friday, Persinger said he was not aware of any new complaints.“The administration has not contacted me about any complaints,” he said in an email to NorthernLife.ca. “Consequently, I am not in a position >>>

"Screening for ASD with the Korean CBCL/1A1/2-5" Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders, Vol. 45, Issue 12, Pg. 4039-4050, Springer/Plenum Publishers, December 2015. Written with Young Ah Kim and Kyung Ja Oh. To test the Child Behavior Checklist's (CBCL/1A1/2aEuro"5) ability to screen for autism spectrum disorders (ASD), we studied Korean preschoolers: 46 with ASD, 111 with developmental delay (DD), 71 with other psychiatric disorders (OPD), and 228 non-referred (NR). The ASD group scored significantly higher than the other groups on the Withdrawn and DSM-Pervasive Developmental Problems >>>

Growing up, many men were taught one thing: women love bad boys. When it comes to this cultural phenomenon, the bad boy is a liberator, a loner, a sexual deviant, and a timeless icon. But, according to recent study published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, women find men who are altruistic more desirable than those who catch the eye when it comes to long-term relationships. In their new study, researchers from the University of Worcester provided further evidence of the importance of altruism in women's dating choices. Selflessness is seen as "a highly important characteristic >>>

During Thursday's momentous City Council debate about reaching an agreement with the Tampa Bay Rays, Council chairwoman Amy Foster offered a psychological explanation for why some of her council colleagues might still be opposed to a deal allowing the team to look outside St. Petersburg. RELATED NEWS/ARCHIVE Hillsborough approves South Shore development despite concerns about Big Bend widening costs 1 Month Ago Hillsborough votes to back Tampa Super Bowl in 2019 or 2020 1 Month Ago A waterfront view: One thing Tampa Bay doesn' t have to worry about 1 Month Ago Foster spoke of  the >>>

publichealthwatchIt is almost a truism among psychological researchers that conservatives are simple-minded and dogmatic. Liberals, meanwhile, are supposed to be more complex and open-minded thinkers. But a new paper is calling those conclusions into question. RELATED ARTICLES How Making a Murderer Helps Explain Liberals' Reaction to the Oregon Standoff Elizabeth Nolan Brown|1.06.16 The Left's Smears on Research That Doesn't Support Their Conclusions John Stossel|12.02.15 The Democrats' Denmark Fetish Ronald Bailey|10.20.15 MORE ARTICLES BY Ronald >>>

As the GDC 2016 lineup begins to come together, organizers would like to highlight a few notable Design track talks you should know about ahead of the March conference. Chief among them is "The Gamer's Brain, Part 2: UX of Onboarding and Player Engagement," Epic Games director of user experience Celia Hodent's follow-up to her popular talk at GDC last year on the psychology of player engagement. Engaging your players within the first few minutes of play is a delicate endeavor, but it's become a critical aspect of development in the era of free-to-play games. Drawing on her experience at Epic >>>

Even when people agree that someone has been a victim of cyberbullying, participants view the victim more negatively when she posted a highly personal disclosure. Credit: iStock People on social media are often unsupportive of cyberbullying victims who have shared highly personal feelings, UCLA psychologists report. Compared to face-to-face situations, >>>