So it turns out sitcoms can erase bigotry. That’s the bottom line of a study recently presented before a conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. And it doesn’t even have to be a particularly good sitcom. To judge, at least, from a screening of its first two episodes, the Canadian sitcom on which the study is based was earnest, amiable, and about as funny as “Schindler’s List.” Apparently, however, Canadian television viewers liked it well enough. “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” a culture clash show about life at a Muslim worship house in small town Canada, >>>

Some people move on from a breakup way faster than others. Turns out this can also be explained by science. According to a new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology bulletin, how a person bounces back from a break up has a lot to do with his or her self-perception. The Standford University psychologists behind the research found that people who perceived themselves having "fixed" personalities are the ones less likely to move on easily from a breakup. They are also the ones likely to suffer from breakup issues because they thought the fault lies in their personality. Like >>>

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, February 8, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The international information security experts IT Governance have added a new title to their catalogue: The Psychology of Information Security – Resolving conflicts between security compliance and human behaviour by Leron Zinatullin. Information security professionals can often be ignorant of the impact that implementing security policies in a vacuum can have on end users’ core business activities. These end users are, in turn, often unaware of the risks they can expose their organisation >>>