The making of a murderer: Expert reveals the psychology behind why people commit violent crimes and mass shootings Men are the perpetrators in a staggeringly high number of homicides, especially mass shootings – up to as many as 97 per cent. But what causes these typically young, male killers to want to commit such violent crimes?  A psychologist from Illinois suggests the reason lies in how humans have evolved, and blames it on the effect guns can have a person’s level of testosterone. According to Frank McAndrew a professor of psychology at Knox College, powerful men have always >>>

NEW DELHI: With three back-to-back exams and the fourth one just after a day's gap, Class XII humanities students of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) are in for a tough schedule. Their board exams will start from March 1. According to the datesheet issued on Saturday, economics is scheduled for March 31, to be followed by legal studies the next day, and psychology on April 2. The sociology exam in on April 4 after a day's gap. However, those students with either three or all of this combination are now in panic mode. They said >>>

UKM clinical psychology lecturer Hilwa Abdullah said teenagers had a 'delicate psychosocial emotion' and would usually find outsiders or outlets outside the home if they did not get enough love at home. — File picPETALING JAYA, Jan 4 — Parents should change their parenting skills to adapt to the changing times, say psychologists. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) clinical psychology lecturer Hilwa Abdullah said this was because teenagers were now more mature and exposed to more information. “Parents need to modify their parenting >>>

I did not intend it but my life has been a living dialectic. Raised in a family of both academic and political background, I sustained myself with academic work for a half century but interspersed that livelihood with what I felt were necessary forays into the real world of politics. Overeducated, with both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in political science, I found myself teaching politics in such a way that almost forced me to go before the public to promote the ideas I espoused behind the ivy.In 1977, for example, my Anti-Authoritarian Personality completed the principal model that linked psychology with >>>

Every year, millions of people around the world make New Year’s resolutions. And every year, the great majority of us break and abandon those resolutions. Self-control is a major problem for many of us, so failure to maintain our resolutions isn’t surprising. But is it inevitable? Is there anything we can do to make it more likely that we stick to our resolve? Psychology research can help: here are four things you can do to make it more likely that, this year, you maintain your resolutions. Intentions, constructions and bundles First, >>>

Treating battle-weary World War II soldiers as they fought their way toward Germany prepared Julian Meltzoff for a life in clinical psychology that would help scores of American veterans cope with the trauma inflicted by the conflicts that followed. Therapeutic programs researched and developed after the war at the VA outpatient clinic in Brooklyn by the former Army staff sergeant, who served three years on the front lines in the 102nd Infantry Division, would lead to talk therapy being established as the national model for treating veterans with what is now known as post-traumatic stress disorder, >>>

NMSU psychology professor Michael Hout and graduate assistant Arryn Robbins demonstrate how they use an eye-tracker system to conduct experiments that examine eye movements and pupillometry.(Photo: Photo by Darren Phillips)LAS CURCES — According to preliminary research conducted by New Mexico State University’s Vision Sciences and Memory Laboratory, two heads may not always be better than one.“We’re looking at how working with a teammate affects behavior,” said Michael Hout, assistant professor of psychology and lead investigator on the project. “There are certain aspects of search >>>

Wearing wet socks and using the same safety pins are among athlete superstitions. Could a lucky charm work for you? Dr Josephine Perry investigates When training for my first marathon, a friend told me it was unlucky to run over three manhole covers in a row as they equal the size of a coffin. Twelve years on and I still run around them, even in a race and despite the fact that my rational mind tells me the action is ridiculous. Yet idiosyncrasies like mine are neither unusual, nor limited to recreational >>>

by Chaveso Cook

Research has shown that about half of all adults make New Year’s resolutions. However, fewer than 10% manage to keep them for more than a few months. As a professor of behavioural addiction I know how easy people can fall into bad habits and why on trying to give up those habits it is easy to relapse. Resolutions usually come in the form of lifestyle changes and changing behaviour that has become routine and habitual (even if they are not problematic) can be hard to do. The most common resolutions are: losing weight, doing more exercise, quitting smoking >>>