GIGI Hadid wanted to be a forensic scientist - until she discovered how long she'd have to study. The 20-year-old model - who signed to modelling agency IMG when she was 17 - moved to New York three years ago to study criminal psychology after rejecting her initial plans because they were too intensive. She said: "I've always been interested in [criminal psychology]. First I wanted to be a doctor. "Then I wanted to be a forensic scientist. But to be a forensic scientist means you have to go to school for eight years. "I was like, 'Over that.' I realised what I enjoyed was trying >>>

GIGI Hadid wanted to be a forensic scientist - until she discovered how long she'd have to study. The 20-year-old model - who signed to modelling agency IMG when she was 17 - moved to New York three years ago to study criminal psychology after rejecting her initial plans because they were too intensive. She said: "I've always been interested in [criminal psychology]. First I wanted to be a doctor. "Then I wanted to be a forensic scientist. But to be a forensic scientist means you have to go to school for eight years. "I was like, 'Over that.' I realised what I enjoyed was trying >>>

Psychology graduate students from the University of Minnesota-Duluth brought a Mobile Neuroscience Lab to Cloquet Middle School last Thursday.The traveling lab helps seventh-graders meet their life science standards while engaging them in hands-on neuroscience-based learning activities, like handling actual brains.The psychology students developed the lessons which demonstrated brain concepts beginning with building a brain “cap” comprised of the sections of the brain named one square at a time, followed by an explanation of what it does.Assistant Professor Rebecca Gilbertson held up a sheep’s >>>

When older adults feel negatively about aging, they may lack confidence in their abilities to hear and remember things, and perform poorly at both, new research from the University of Toronto shows. “People’s feelings about getting older influence their sensory and cognitive functions,” said Professor Alison Chasteen of the department of psychology in the Faculty of Arts Science and lead author of the study published in Psychology and Aging. “Those feelings are often rooted in stereotypes about getting older and comments >>>

Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Dec 11: A one-day National Seminar on “Mental Psychological Health and Adolescent Problems” was organized by Gandhi peace foundation, New Delhi in collaboration with eminent Psychologists at the Goenkan acres. The theme of the seminar was” Mental- Psychological Health And Adolescent Problems”. The key resource persons were the psychologists Prof (Dr.) S Ambiyam from Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute , Pondicherry, and Dr S. Sarada International consultant from Clinical Psychologist Ernakulam, >>>

Ronald Schouten is the director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Law and Psychiatry Service and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has been studying the psychology of terrorism since the 9/11 attacks broadened his focus beyond workplace violence. In a conversation with the Gazette, he fielded questions on the attack in San Bernardino, Calif., and the psychology behind both terrorism and the fear it spreads. GAZETTE: How does someone get self-radicalized in a case like San Bernardino, where there doesn’t appear to have been recruiting? SCHOUTEN: >>>

At the dawn of mass media in America, technology and culture coincided in a way that would change society forever. Technological advances and government fear of the masses combined with the birth of psychology to form the base of modern-day media. Everyone’s familiar with the work of Sigmund Freud by now, and mentioning his name typically leads to snickers and penis jokes. Much of what Freud presented as fact about human behavior and psychology during his career was completely ludicrous, and psychology in its modern form has done away with many of his most ridiculous ideas, which he was known >>>

MoreBeing Happy Won’t Make You Live LongerHow to Be Creative: 6 Secrets Backed By Research According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, Americans are more afraid than they have been since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. As a psychologist who specializes in traumatic stress, I believe there can be some value in empathizing with other people’s suffering. But it becomes a problem when people become incapacitated or overwhelmed by the “bad” things out there and shut out the world. For trauma survivors, seeing terrible world events—such as recent mass shootings and terroristic >>>

Benjamin Mis, an assistant psychology professor at Irvine Valley College, is ditching a $100 textbook and will instead assign his Introduction to Psychology students in the spring semester an open-source book that will cost as low as ... free. “Books can cost more than the courses, in some of the cases,” Mis said. “I’ve seen students struggle.” Mis is among a small yet growing group of higher-education instructors in California who are trying to keep academic costs down by using open texts, which are written by faculty and vetted by their peers. Since these books are >>>

HIGH POINT, N.C., Dec. 11, 2015 – High Point University students enrolled in Dr. Sadie Leder Elder’s Introduction to Psychology class participated in a class activity with a big impact. Through the course’s “Helping Behavior Activity,” the students assembled gift bags filled with toys for students at Parkview Elementary School. Michelle Bodie-Anderson, community and school student support specialist at Parkview, visited the students to discuss the needs of the local children and the impact that this donation will have on them. HPU students Brittney Meadors (left) and Keiara Powell >>>