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An apparently interesting finding about the levels of people’s overconfidence in making assessments — BUT uselessly conveyed — and serving as an example of the kind of time-wasting pseudo-science writing that leads to mistaken impressions of what the research probably quantitatively revealed 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Albert E. Mannes and Don A. Moore, A Behavioral Demonstration of Overconfidence in Judgment, Psychological Science, DOI: 10.1177/0956797612470700 (published online before print, 30 May 2013) Citation — to press release Anna Mikulak, People Are Overly Confident in Their Own Knowledge, Despite Errors, Association for Psychological Science (10 [...]

Categories: Psychology,Science,Science Journalism

Tagged: A Behavioral Demonstration of Overconfidence in Judgment, Albert E. Mannes, Anna Mikulak, arriving late, bouncing checks, Don A. Moore, exaggerated feedback, missing planes, Overprecision, People Are Overly Confident in Their Own Knowledge Despite Errors

Published:: 11 June 2013 – 13:08
Author:: By BrainiYak

If you’re fat or noticeably thin, will your physician disrespect you? — Maybe, says a study of third year medical students — and many will not recognize their prejudice 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study David P. Miller, John G. Spangler, Mara Z. Vitolins, Stephen W. Davis, Edward H. Ip, Gail S. Marion, and Sonia J. Crandall, Are Medical Students Aware of Their Anti-obesity Bias?, Academic Medicine, doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318294f817 (22 May 2013) Citation — to press release Marguerite Beck and Bonnie Davis, [...]

Categories: Medicine,Psychology,Public Health

Tagged: anti-fat bias, anti-thin bias, Are Medical Students Aware of Their Anti obesity Bias, Bonnie Davis, David P. Miller, Edward H. Ip, fat, Future Doctors Unaware of Their Obesity Bias, Gail S. Marion, John G. Spangler, Mara Z. Vitolins, Marguerite Beck, obese, Sonia J. Crandall, Stephen W. Davis, thin, weight bias

Published:: 27 May 2013 – 10:01
Author:: By BrainiYak

Parental addictions forecast 69 percent higher rate of depression in their eventually adult children — as compared to children of non-addicts 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Esme Fuller-Thomson, Robyn B. Katz, Vi T. Phan, Jessica P.M. Liddycoat, and Sarah Brennenstuhl, The long arm of parental addictions: The association with adult children’s depression in a population-based study, Psychiatry Research, doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2013.02.024 (in press, early online publication of corrected proof, 06 May 2013) Citation — to [...]

Categories: Genetics,Medicine,Psychiatry,Psychology,Public Health,Science

Tagged: 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey, addiction, addicts, depression, Dominic Ali, Esme Fuller-Thomson, Jessica P.M. Liddycoat, Parental addictions linked to adult children’s depression, Robyn B. Katz, Sarah Brennenstuhl, The long arm of parental addictions The association with adult children’s depression in a population-based study, University of Toronto, Vi T. Phan

Published:: 13 May 2013 – 16:13
Author:: By BrainiYak

Major depression appears to be grossly over-diagnosed and treated in the United States — says an apparently indicative study 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Ramin J. Mojtabai, Clinician-Identified Depression in Community Settings: Concordance with Structured-Interview Diagnoses, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 82 (3): 161-169, DOI: 10.1159/000345968 (April 2013) Citation — to press release Natalie Wood-Wright, Over-diagnosis and over-treatment of depression is common in the U.S., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (30 [...]

Categories: Medicine,Psychiatry,Psychology,Public Health

Tagged: ational Survey of Drug Use and Health, Clinician-Identified Depression in Community Settings: Concordance with Structured-Interview Diagnoses, disorder, DSM IV, error rate, major depressive episode, MDE, medical model, mental disorders, mental illness, Natalie Wood-Wright, Over-diagnosis and over-treatment of depression is common in the U.S., overdiagnosis, overtreatment, Phillip W. Long, psychiatric illness, psychiatric medications, psychiatrists, psychologists, Ramin J. Mojtabai, Unipolar Affective Disorder

Published:: 2 May 2013 – 15:07
Author:: By BrainiYak

When optimism is not (perhaps) the best policy — a German study found that older folks’ pessimism regarding their future resulted in better health and life satisfaction when that future arrived — but this finding is not as psychologically interesting as it first appears to be 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Frieder R. Lang, David Weiss, Denis Gerstorf, and Gert G. Wagner, Forecasting Life Satisfaction Across Adulthood: Benefits of Seeing a Dark Future?, doi: 10.1037/a0030797 (18 February 2013) For a copy of the complete paper (at least of today), see here. Citation — to press release American Psychological [...]

Categories: Psychology,Science

Tagged: aging, Benefits of Seeing a Dark Future, David Weiss, Denis Gerstorf, Forecasting Life Satisfaction Across Adulthood, Frieder R. Lang, German Socio-Economic Panel, Gert G. Wagner, Pessimism About the Future May Lead to Longer Healthier Life, risk of disability and death

Published:: 27 February 2013 – 13:46
Author:: By BrainiYak

Scientifically sloppy findings from a psychiatric survey of “religious” versus “spiritual” versus “neither” (in England) — which (questionably) concluded that “spiritual, but non-religious” people were more vulnerable to “mental disorder” — and an example of how lay commentators can skew results of questionable science still further 0

Citation — to study Michael King, Louise Marston, Sally McManus, Terry Brugha, Howard Meltzer, and Paul Bebbington, Religion, spirituality and mental health: results from a national study of English households, British Journal of Psychiatry, doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.112003 (published online ahead of print, 22 November 2012) Citation — to the magnified questionability of a lay review of [...]

Categories: Psychiatry,Psychology,Science,Science Journalism

Tagged: Adult psychiatric morbidity in England 2007, dangerous mix, English households, Howard Meltzer, Louise Marston, Mark Vernon, mental health, Michael King, National Psychiatric Morbidity Study, neither religious nor spiritual, non-religious, Paul Bebbington, religion, religious, Sally McManus, self-select, spiritual, spiritual tradition, Terry Brugha

Published:: 9 January 2013 – 10:44
Author:: By BrainiYak

Mistaken (but not completely illogical) behavior by consumers of health medications and interventions — the higher the cost of cure or prevention, the lower the risk that consumers perceive in becoming ill by not taking it 0

Citation — to study Adriana Samper and Janet A. Schwartz, Price Inferences for Sacred versus Secular Goods: Changing the Price of Medicine Influences Perceived Health Risk, Journal of Consumer Research, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/668639 (published ahead of print, print copy due April 2013) Citation — to press release Keith Brannon, Consumers judge their risk of catching an illness [...]

Categories: Medicine,Psychology,Public Health,Science,Statistics

Tagged: Adriana Samper, consumers, cost, cost of cure, flu shot, illness, Janet A. Schwartz, Keith Brannon, medication, perceived health risk, price, probabilities, risk assessment, Tulane University

Published:: 7 January 2013 – 17:23
Author:: By BrainiYak

A new paper suggests that one of the most influential psychology paper of all time was grossly wrong, when it reported that the human brain could hold and process 7 chunks of information simultaneously in short term memory — but the new paper, which reduces the graspable elements to only 4, does not even provide an abstract, and it has a completely unrevealing title 0

Citation — to the upstart paper Gordon Parker, Acta is a four-letter word, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 126(6): 476–478 (December 2012) Citation — to the long-standing paper George A. Miller, The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information, Psychology Review 63(2): 81-97, doi: 10.1037/h0043158 (March 1956) Citation — [...]

Categories: Neuroscience,Psychiatry,Psychology,Science,Science Journalism

Tagged: Acta is a four-letter word, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, brain, chunk, four, George A. Miller, Gordon Parker, information, magical number, seven, short-term memory, storage capacity, University of New South Wales

Published:: 28 November 2012 – 10:11
Author:: By BrainiYak

Warning substance abusers about the risks of their behaviors (especially over the long term) appears not to work as effectively as it does with non-abusers — according to a small neuroimaging study 0

Citation — to study Rena Fukunaga, Tim Bogg, Peter R. Finn, and Joshua W. Brown, Decisions During Negatively-Framed Messages Yield Smaller Risk-Aversion-Related Brain Activation in Substance-Dependent Individuals, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, doi: 10.1037/a0030633 (12 November 2012) Citation — to press release University of Indiana, Neuroimaging study: Negative messages less effective on those who are substance [...]

Categories: Medicine,Psychiatry,Psychology,Public Health,Science

Tagged: anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula, functional MRI, Iowa Gambling Task, Joshua W. Brown, message framing, negatively framed, neuroimaging, Peter R. Finn, positive message, Rena Fukunaga, risk aversion, substance abuse, substance dependent, Tim Bogg

Published:: 26 November 2012 – 15:17
Author:: By BrainiYak

Functional MRI imaging shows changes in the level of amygdala arousal after Buddhist-like meditation training, even outside the meditative state —results from a very small study 0

Citation — to study Gaëlle Desbordes, Lobsang T. Negi, Thaddeus W. W. Pace, B. Alan Wallace, Charles L. Raison, and Eric L. Schwartz, Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6: 292, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00292 (01 November 2012) Citation — to [...]

Categories: Medicine,Psychology,Public Health

Tagged: activation, amygdala, arousal, B. Alan Wallace, brain, Charles L. Raison, depression, Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation, emotion, emotional processing, Eric L. Schwartz, Gaëlle Desbordes, habituation, Lobsang T. Negi, meditation, mindful-attention, mindfulness, non-meditative state, Sue McGreevey, Thaddeus W. W. Pace

Published:: 13 November 2012 – 13:24
Author:: By BrainiYak

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Category Archives: Psychology

An apparently interesting finding about the levels of people’s overconfidence in making assessments — BUT uselessly conveyed — and serving as an example of the kind of time-wasting pseudo-science writing that leads to mistaken impressions of what the research probably quantitatively revealed 0

If you’re fat or noticeably thin, will your physician disrespect you? — Maybe, says a study of third year medical students — and many will not recognize their prejudice 0

Parental addictions forecast 69 percent higher rate of depression in their eventually adult children — as compared to children of non-addicts 0

Major depression appears to be grossly over-diagnosed and treated in the United States — says an apparently indicative study 0

When optimism is not (perhaps) the best policy — a German study found that older folks’ pessimism regarding their future resulted in better health and life satisfaction when that future arrived — but this finding is not as psychologically interesting as it first appears to be 0

Mistaken (but not completely illogical) behavior by consumers of health medications and interventions — the higher the cost of cure or prevention, the lower the risk that consumers perceive in becoming ill by not taking it 0

Warning substance abusers about the risks of their behaviors (especially over the long term) appears not to work as effectively as it does with non-abusers — according to a small neuroimaging study 0

Functional MRI imaging shows changes in the level of amygdala arousal after Buddhist-like meditation training, even outside the meditative state —results from a very small study 0

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