Pittsburgh Bans Conversion Therapy for Minors. Is It Professional Regulation or Censorship? (Or Both!)
There are consequences for telling professionals what they're legally permitted to talk about.
There are consequences for telling professionals what they're legally permitted to talk about.
Banned in 1985, the "empathogen" could be legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst as soon as 2021.
New study contradicts earlier findings of no correlation between intelligence and happiness
Vivek Murthy does not acknowledge the possibility that nonmedical consumption of psychoactive substances could be beneficial.
Friday A/V Club: One of the most sublime rock documentaries ever made
The point isn't to see the world though rose-colored glasses or through a dirty windshield, but to see the world as it actually is.
Another study finds that playing violent video games does not increase aggression
However, the rise of modern social institutions has greatly reduced violence in contemporary societies.
It's allure is a primitive evolutionary hold over.
In the Wall Street Journal, the ex-Playboy model blames online-porn for Anthony Weiner's texting troubles & kids propelled "warp-speed into the dark side."
All of us have "multiple sexual orientations ... across a variety of different dimensions."
The Narcissist and Megalomaniac communities, however, warmly embrace the Republican presidential candidate.*
New study confirms my views about IQ and the propensity to exercise
It's way too early to start putting people like me in jail based on our genomes
Merely labeling an attitude as moral increases its strength, reports new study
Supporters of Trump, Cruz, and Rubio more likely to see profoundness in bullshit than supporters of Clinton, Sanders, and O'Malley
If we're going to publicly fund medical treatments, why should there be an exception here?
As a bonus, it also avoids the thorny issue of compelled speech.
Psychological "concept creep" pathologizes everyday experience and encourages a sense of impotent victimhood.
Believers in sci-tech progress tend to be happier than the religiously faithful, says new study
Psychology and the rest of science would benefit from some focused research on the problem of confirmation bias
Contradicts claims that only 40 percent of studies could be replicated.
Is it censorship or a fight against false advertising?
"Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality" in Nature
Viral video star shot to death in Arizona when police respond to suicide attempt.
We don't need lawmakers deciding what therapies should be supported or legal.
Like Obama and Clinton, the former Florida governor wants to "take rights away from law-abiding citizens."
The president seeks to encourage psychiatric treatment while increasing the likelihood that it will result in the loss of Second Amendment rights.
A scitech research and policy roundup
Farook may be Muslim, but he doesn't seem to match the ISIS profile.
Fear of a small group of unpredictable people is used to attack political opponents.
A "relatively common" genetic mutation may trigger poor impulse control, especially when drinking.
There was a time when psychedelics could get friendly coverage on a commercial TV news show.
As prohibition collapses, marijuana users are less likely to abuse the drug.
Legalization may improve marijuana's benefit-to-cost ratio.
Their profile is shared by many people who never kill anyone.
No, you don't have to have the state's approval to tell families how to solve problems.
Wants less shouting, more good policy.
The American Psychological Association thinks so.
Americans increasingly want and expect adult supervision
A psychiatrist argues that "a vast majority of these tragedies" could be prevented by more aggressive mental health interventions.
A major project to reproduce study results from psychology journals found that more than half could not be replicated.
"Stronger mental health screenings for prospective gun owners" would strip many harmless people of their Second Amendment rights.
Cognitive disorders of college students
Family settled in case of man Tasered and restrained at university hospital in 2010.