Our family is anxiously awaiting the arrival of wireless 3G iPads at the end of April. I haven’t really had a chance to explore the possibilities of the technology yet, but one of the apps that is definitely on my list is the 3-D brain app from Genes to Cognition. Read more…
Nicholas Christakis has a lot to say about the importance of the company we keep. Not only do your friends’ smoking and eating habits affect your own, but their loneliness and drinking habits do as well. Christakis and his colleagues note that if you are directly connected with a person Read more…
While updating some writing on eating disorders, I realized that I had some contradictory data. In a section on obesity, I used some WebMD data on the number of calories in some restaurant meals. Among the cited meals was the Cheesecake Factory’s chicken and biscuit meal, at an incredible 2,500 Read more…
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…