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Sex, Alcoholism, Dementia, Depression, and Facebook
Read more: Sex, Alcoholism, Dementia, Depression, and FacebookAn especially alluring set of news headlines at PsychCentral today: Scientists Closer to Finding Cure for Alcoholism Your Dementia Risk Rises if Spouse Has Dementia Electromagnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Depression Some Mood Disorders Stay with Us As We Age Social Media Doesn’t Help in the Classroom Older Men Benefit From Talking About Sex Exploring…
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The Moral Life of Babies
Read more: The Moral Life of BabiesDo we start out with a sense of right and wrong or not? A long exploration in the NYT Magazine: [T]he current work…on baby morality, might seem like a perverse and misguided next step. Why would anyone even entertain the thought of babies as moral beings? From Sigmund Freud to Jean Piaget to Lawrence Kohlberg, psychologists…
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The Pill Turns 50
Read more: The Pill Turns 50A birthday write-up from the Los Angeles Times: It was supposed to make every child a wanted child, give women control over their bodies and grant couples worry-free sex…
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On Placebos
Read more: On PlacebosOlivia Judson looks at the placebo effect. Regarding the testing of an ulcer drug versus a placebo: Intriguingly, the results varied from country to country, with Brazilians showing no placebo effect and Germans having a strong one. Why? No one knows, but it doesn’t appear to be because of anything inherently German: trials of drugs…
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“My Kid Wouldn’t Do That”
Read more: “My Kid Wouldn’t Do That”A study shows parents tend to have a skewed views of their teen’s behavior. “Parents…had a very hard time thinking about their own teen children as sexually desiring subjects…At the same time…parents view their teens’ peers as highly sexual, even sexually predatory.”