Posted on Dec 4, 2019 | Comments Off on Your ‘Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself’ Friend – Conspiracy Believers Are Often Not Crackpots About Everything
"Epstein didn't kill himself" is a conspiracy meme that has been everywhere lately. If you are not familiar with the name Jeffrey Epstein, he was a billionaire and convicted sex offender - but as a billionaire he was connected to almost everyone in politics and culture, so when he was found dead in his jail cell, denied bail on a new charge, there began concerns someone had him killed to keep him...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2019 | Comments Off on ASMR – It Isn’t As Weird As You Might Think, Unless It Is
We are setting up a live streaming/video channel to do things like reviews of books, interviews, and then eventually we will do staff meetings as well.(1)But while it was once limited to something like Facebook live, with Restream we can go out to YouTube Live, Mixer, and Twitch, all at once.(2) read...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Psychological Impact Of Genetic Testing – Like All Psychology, It Depends
Population level metrics such as Body Mass Index (BMI) or statistical correlation using epidemiology don't do much to inform individual experience, and psychology faces the same issue. Surveys can tell us whatever surveys can tell us about what a particular group of people taking surveys think, but there is a reason that no polling group does well with Congressional districts that are...
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Posted on Jun 6, 2019 | Comments Off on Echo Chamber Of Disinformation Keeps Anti-Science Beliefs Persistent
From herbicides to vaccines to pollution, there is a science consensus but there are still pockets of people who refuses to accept them. They are bolstered by disinformation campaigns. When it comes to food or what car to drive, the difference is higher cost or kicking the pollution can down the road for future generations to solve, but vaccine denial is harming people with immune issues right...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2019 | Comments Off on Progressive White People Will Try To Appear Less Verbally Competent When Communicating With Minorities
When we think of racial bias we usually think about differences when being stopped by the police or being watched more closely in a small deli, but there is another facet of it, an indirect bias by people who otherwise behave in ways that seem diverse and tolerant. In a recent preprint paper, the authors concluded that white liberal politicians and individuals engage in "competence downshift"...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2019 | Comments Off on More Religious Belief Correlated To Lower Belief In Organic Food Claims
In a recent experiment, participants were asked questions to gauge how religious they were and then about their willingness to purchase a fruit cup. Half were told the fruit cup was organic and half were told it was gluten-free.People who were very religious had more favorable attitudes toward the gluten-free fruit cup and were more likely to say they would buy it than they would the organic...
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