Posts By: David Berg

Psychology Website of the Week — NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON THE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON THE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY URL    http://nitop.org/ DESCRIPTION NITOP is planning its 38th conference in 2016 with a great program.  The conference, if you have never attended, is one of the most worthwhile teaching conferences.  Colleagues, sessions, workshops, presentations, and exhibits are fabulous.  It is easy to propose either… Read more »

Psychology Update — Six Children’s Books That Use Psychological Techniques to Help Kids

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TITLE Six Children’s Books That Use Psychological Techniques to Help Kids DESCRIPTION Six books are listed in this popular blog.  Each of these children’s books tells a story and embeds a “technique” that is essentially a self-help technique.  The stories cover issues in sleep, anxiety, trauma, tantrums and so on.  The books could be useful… Read more »

Psychology Update — Does Being Neurotic Really Make You More Creative?

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TITLE Does Being Neurotic Really Make You More Creative? DESCRIPTION This study examined whether the “overthinking” which is prevalent in neurotic individuals leads to being more creative.  Those scoring high in neuroticism scales on personality tests were found to more often think negatively and to think more about negative outcomes in life events leading to… Read more »

Psychology Update — Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work

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TITLE Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work DESCRIPTION “The field of psychology sustained a damaging blow…: A new analysis found that only 36 percent of findings from almost 100 studies in the top three psychology journals held up when the original experiments were rigorously redone.”  In the news comes the revelation that Psychologists… Read more »

Psychology Website of the Week — HEADS UP

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK TITLE HEADS UP from the CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention URL      http://www.cdc.gov/headsup/ DESCRIPTION This is a go to site for information on brain injury and sports, assessment, for schools, teams, coaches, health care providers, and parents.  The site provides basic information and recommendations for the topic of concussions… Read more »

Psychology Update — American Psychological Association Bans Members From Military Interrogations

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TITLE American Psychological Association Bans Members From Military Interrogations DESCRIPTION This report, in the Chronicle Of Higher Education on the APA 2015 Convention in Toronto, restates the problem discovered in the APA’s collusion with the military to participate in activities related to torture.   The APA site lists a number of articles including the Hoffman Report… Read more »

Psychology Update — Psychopaths May Be Immune To Contagious Yawning

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TITLE Psychopaths May Be Immune To Contagious Yawning DESCRIPTION “In the study, which will be published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in November, psychologists from Baylor University in Texas showed that people who are more coldhearted are less likely to engage in the natural behavior of “catching” yawns.”  In this research, students were… Read more »