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Scary New Cigarette Labels Not Based in Psychology
Science: There’s no question that the nine new graphic cigarette warning labels designed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which will be on all cigarette packages sold in the United States starting in September
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FDA’s Graphic Cigarette Images: Will They Work?
Can graphic images persuade people to make lasting changes to their behavior? The answer, according to psychological research, is probably not. Howard Leventhal, the Board of Governors Professor of Health Psychology at Rutgers, agrees that
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Thinking about Death, East and West
It’s unsettling to think about our own death, which is why we have ways to protect our sense of self when we’re reminded of our mortality. For example, research has found that we become more
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Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look
The New York Times: It was less than 20 years ago that the National Institutes of Health abruptly withdrew funds for a conference on genetics and crime after outraged complaints that the idea smacked of
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Power Players
Slate: Anthony Weiner’s extramarital sexting, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love child, and the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal has led to a lot of handwringing about the prevalence of philandering among politicians and to speculation about why politicians risk
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To pee or not to pee
The Philippine Star: Google has a policy that any food station in their building should not be more than a hundred feet away from its employees. I found that out in an article published in
