It's almost Christmas Eve, and you can feel the excitement building for the many families and children who enjoy one of the biggest holidays of the year. Christmas Eve is recognized around the world and celebrated both for its religious meaning commemorating the birth of Christ and for its fun secular traditions like Santa Claus and exchanging gifts.For children and adults alike, Christmas Eve may be one of the most difficult evenings of the year to get a good night's rest. You can sense the anticipation as youngsters await the fun of a visit from Santa Claus and look >>>

Marilu Isiordia is a quantitative psychology Doctorate of Psychology student and experimental psychologist at the University of California at Davis. Marilu received both her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in experimental psychology from California State University, Stanislaus. According to her official lab profile for the Dynamics in Psychological Science Lab, which she’s working under, many of her most recent research projects and collaborative publications have focused on understanding and improving the health and well being of the surrounding Central Valley communities. Marilu >>>

Add to Favorites Contact Information <!-- -->Available for logged-in reporters only<!-- --> Citations Body Image, March-2016 Newswise — How should a concerned mother discuss issues of diet and weight with her daughter? Very carefully, according to Erin Hillard, a developmental psychology doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame.In an article recently >>>

Scientists claim to have revealed the three different types of stupidity in a new study. Research carried out by experimental psychologist Balazs Aczel, of the Institute of Psychology at Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary, and his colleagues, set out to discover the type of behaviour people considered to be stupid. Published in this month’s edition of the journal Intelligence, the study found that there were three main categories of foolish behaviour – confident ignorance, lack of control and absentmindedness, reports the Research Digest news site. The research team collected >>>

Submit Posted by: How to Market to the Overlooked 25-34-year-old Age Segments According to the “Golden Age of Youth” study from Viacom Brand Solutions International, marketers should target consumers based upon their engagement and participation in youth culture rather than on their chronological age, and consider the often-overlooked 25-34 age group a part of the youth market, VBSI said. Psychology tells us that we must look at the mental and emotional side of people.  We see them being different today than they were decades >>>

Alvin Malesky has taught online classes for at least seven years and, as a former law-enforcement officer and forensic psychologist, is trained to detect deception.

Last year he and a colleague at Western Carolina University, concerned about the…

Eyewitnesses can be an accurate tool in connecting suspects to crimes if the witnesses are confident in their earliest testimony, according to a UC San Diego study published Monday. Psychology professor John Wixted and his co-authors examined 348 real-life photo lineups administered by police in Houston in 2013. They found the more confident an eyewitness was in her first identification of a suspect, the more accurate the identification. That contradicts some earlier studies that found little to no link between witness confidence and identification accuracy. Wixted said those studies were >>>

I must be hanging around in the wrong circles.There I’ve been for much of the past 10 years, either studying a Masters in sport psychology or practising in the field and I’ve never paid a moment’s attention to the works of a Deepak Chopra. Prior to a column by Joe Brolly last Sunday in a supposedly reputable newspaper, the only other time I’d encountered the man’s name in an article was reading about the Kobe Bryant documentary Muse released earlier this year which was filmed by Chopra’s son, Gotham. And yet, according to Joe, Chopra Senior is “the doyen” of “absurd self-help >>>

WASHINGTON, December 21, 2015 — Foreign observers of Black Friday and Cyber Monday might assume that Thanksgiving is nothing more than a banquet kicking off a month-long shopping spree. They might see the season as a celebration of gluttony whose grand finale is the gift exchange called “Christmas.” It is easy to see the holiday season as a capitalist celebration designed to extract the excess earnings from the previous year’s labor. But Christmas is a religious holiday that commemorates the birth of a very humble man who preached about forgoing self-indulgences in favor >>>

Let’s face it. Psychologist Abraham Maslow never wanted to be a marketer. In his work, Toward a Psychology of Being, he describes the 13 personality attributes of the self-actualizing person. Often depicted as the top of the pyramid on the Hierarchy of Needs, “Self-actualization” is the realization of one’s full potential, with a focus outside of self.  Maslow could not have known the power of his work in shaping our approach to understanding and communicating with older adults. In our research with grandparents, the birth of the first grandchild signals the shift toward “actualization.” >>>