To earn her doctorate in psychology, Alette Coble-Temple spent countless hours studying, but when she speaks about abuse of people with disabilities, she isn't reciting a lesson from some textbook.Her cerebral palsy has given her firsthand knowledge."One of my caregivers was angry with me when I needed assistance going to the bathroom," Coble-Temple said in an interview this week. "He took me to the toilet, left, and didn't come back. I had another caregiver who stole over $40,000 dollars for me." >>>

Home Staging isn't just about putting furniture here and putting art there. For award winning stager and decorator Kristie Barnett, it's a psychological thing. Barnett is known as The Decorologist, and she combines her experience in home decor and her graduate degrees in Psychology and Education to stage homes for sale and train others in the art of home decor. Barnett has staged homes in the past that have sold in days at top dollar through a unique system of Psychological Staging that she created for her success. "Buying and selling a home is a very emotionally-charged process," Barnett said. >>>

Children around the globe recognize and respond to scenarios that put them at an unfair disadvantage to their peers, while children in only a few societies correct conditions that place them at an unfair advantage over others, a Boston College researcher and her colleagues reported in a recent edition of the journal Nature. Assistant Professor of Psychology Katherine McAuliffe was among a team of psychologists, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists that devised a pioneering experiment to study how fairness develops in seven different societies. The researchers used an economic >>>

Brandon Smit(Photo: Ball State University)MUNCIE —  A Ball State University researcher is generating international publicity for proving there is a free and simple way to forget about work during off-hours.Psychology instructor Brandon Smit's study, published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, is creating headlines like the following in publications including New York Magazine, The Financial Times of London, Men's Health, The Economic Times of India and The Washington Post:• "Worrying about work when you are not at work"• "One way to stop obsessing over work >>>