I consider myself a scientist, not a conspiracy theorist, and as compelling as the correlational data between the rise in HFCS and obesity appeared, the food industry continued to reassure everybody that HFCS was “just another sugar” and not responsible for the fattening of America. So it was with considerable Read more…
One of the great things about psychology is that it is useful to people in so many different fields of study. In an upcoming article in the Journal of Consumer Research, Katherine Loveland and her colleagues show how loneliness and feelings of social exclusion lead to choices of nostalgic products over Read more…
After last quarter’s amazing trip to the UCSB Brain Imaging Lab, the Neuroscience Club was hoping for an encore, and found it in UCSB’s ReCVEB lab. This stands for “Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior.” Cade McCall and his staff kindly showed us the details of their work, much Read more…
When I introduce the psychological disorders unit in both intro psych and biopsych, I spend quite a bit of time discussing what we mean in psychology by the term “abnormal.” This sometimes seemed like overkill–the students were always anxious to get into the meat of the material. After reading Allen Read more…
Today was the beginning of week 9 for us dinosaurs still on the quarter system, and you can feel the growing tension as finals week approaches. Everybody could use some anti-anxiety advice right about now. So a recent article about exercise and anxiety caught my attention. While I typically bring up Read more…