Behavioral Psychology & Learning Theory

Crochet, Crafts and Mental Health

Crochet, Crafts and Mental Health

If you’re looking for a new hobby to take up, consider crochet. Why? The results of a recently published study from researchers in Australia give some possible reasons. In that study, the ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Crafts, Mental Health
Five Hours of Sleep a Night Biases People Toward Negative Interpretations

Five Hours of Sleep a Night Biases People Toward Negative Interpretations

We all know that nothing good comes from cutting sleep out of your life. First, there are the cognitive effects. Sleep deprivation influences people’s performance in ways similar to alcohol consumption, which ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Health Psychology, Sleep
Drinking Alone Can Be a Warning Sign in Young People

Drinking Alone Can Be a Warning Sign in Young People

One of the things about alcohol is that where and how you consume it matters a great deal. Having a beer with a friend? Generally a fun and healthy thing to do ...
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/ / Adults, Alcohol, Behavioral Psychology, Teens
The Demographics of Humor

The Demographics of Humor

Humor is a funny thing. Different people use it in different ways. I’ve touched on this topic in some previous blog posts. People with high self-esteem, for example, tend to use humor ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Humor, Politics, Positive Psychology, Social Psychology
2 Reasons Self-Control and Forgiveness Go Hand-in-Hand

2 Reasons Self-Control and Forgiveness Go Hand-in-Hand

Forgive and forget? Easier said than done, but also easier to do if you have high levels of self-control, it turns out. Previous psychology studies have repeatedly pointed to a link between ...
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/ / Anger, Behavioral Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Forgiveness, Perfectionism, Self-Control
People With "Dark Triad" Personality Traits Aren't Necessarily Emotionally Cold

People With “Dark Triad” Personality Traits Aren’t Necessarily Emotionally Cold

You might suspect that people who engage in callous or manipulative behavior would tend to be emotionally colder. Intuitively, that could even be a plausible explanation as to why those individuals would ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Narcissism, Personality
Some Types of Sedentary Behavior Might Be Worse Than Others for Mental Health

Some Types of Sedentary Behavior Might Be Worse Than Others for Mental Health

Here’s a question that’s still up for debate among psychology researchers: just how bad is sitting around, really? On one hand, there’s a definite connection between sedentary behavior and mental health risks ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology
Do Children Imitate Differently Across Cultures?

Do Children Imitate Differently Across Cultures?

Children have a lot to learn, and one of the ways they meet that formidable challenge is by imitating others. They’ll imitate the good things see. They’ll imitate the bad things they ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Children, Culture, Developmental Psychology, Teens
Why Gun Owners Are Happier (Hint: It's Probably Not the Guns)

Why Gun Owners Are Happier (Hint: It’s Probably Not the Guns)

Decades of psychology researchers has converged on the conclusion that the key to happiness is … owning a gun? Not quite. But as the authors of a new study on happiness and ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Happiness, Positive Psychology
The Dietary Habits of Optimists

The Dietary Habits of Optimists

It’s solidly established that there appears to be a link between optimism and physical health. This can be seen, for example, from the fact that people with higher levels of optimism tend ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Health Psychology, Nutrition, Optimism, Positive Psychology