Read more psychology stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4611/psychology.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:57:58 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71074/why-women-have-sex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPsychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss, authors of the 2007 study “Why Humans Have Sex,” have completed a second go-round, this time focused on women only. They come up with 237 reasons, and though they're not enumerated in the article, Time asks Buss for some highlights: Besides sexual attraction and...http://www.newser.com/story/71074/why-women-have-sex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 16:50:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71071/couples-therapists-solution-to-marital-fight-knife-hubby.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Manhattan couples therapist—who once told the New York Times the biggest problem between men and women is communication—is accused of knifing her husband in an argument. Joyce Poster-Lederman—or, as the Post calls her, “the frustrated female Freudian”—allegedly blew up during a fight at home Sept....http://www.newser.com/story/71071/couples-therapists-solution-to-marital-fight-knife-hubby.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 12:55:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70529/how-thin-people-make-other-people-fat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagExisting research suggests those trying to control their food intake should avoid dining with hefty companions with heaping plates. Not quite, says a new study. While the "I'll have what she's having" effect was confirmed in this experiment with college-age women, it was much more pronounced if the person supersizing...http://www.newser.com/story/70529/how-thin-people-make-other-people-fat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 11:55:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69518/tv-noise-hurts-parent-kid-bond.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHaving a television on reduces parent-child interaction and may hold back the development of young children—even if nobody's watching it, according to a new study. Researchers studied children ages 1 to 3 playing with their parents with and without an adult's show like Jeopardy playing in the background and...http://www.newser.com/story/69518/tv-noise-hurts-parent-kid-bond.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 8:35:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68579/study-talking-to-pretty-women-makes-men-stupid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMen literally lose their minds when talking to women they find attractive, a new study finds. A group of Dutch psychologists—inspired to carry out the experiment after one of them forgot his address while talking to a pretty woman—tested the memory skills of 40 heterosexual volunteers before and...http://www.newser.com/story/68579/study-talking-to-pretty-women-makes-men-stupid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Sep 2009 8:20:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68278/love-boosts-creativity-lust-improves-logic-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe lovestruck enjoy a surge in creative powers while those who are merely randy are sharper logicians, a new study finds. Dutch researchers asked students to imagine either a romantic walk with a loved one or a one-night stand with a casual acquaintance before giving them a set of problems...http://www.newser.com/story/68278/love-boosts-creativity-lust-improves-logic-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 01 Sep 2009 9:29:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67949/first-us-internet-addiction-rehab-center-opens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe first US Internet addiction clinic has opened in Fall City, Wash. The Heavensfield Retreat Center offers “reStart,” a 45-day in-patient rehab program for Internet, video game, and texting addictions, LiveScience reports. Clients undergo talk therapy and social skills training, as well as feeding goats, raising chickens, and learning home...http://www.newser.com/story/67949/first-us-internet-addiction-rehab-center-opens.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67823/why-such-rage-at-obesity-start-with-self-loathing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf so many people are fat in this country, why is there so much venom against the overweight? Part of it can be chalked up to "self-loathing," write Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin in Newsweek . We're conditioned to consider extra pounds unattractive, and we get ticked off when we can't...http://www.newser.com/story/67823/why-such-rage-at-obesity-start-with-self-loathing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 26 Aug 2009 17:00:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67826/ya-ya-sisterhoods-stab-you-in-the-back.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAccording to today’s “Sex and the City ethos,” friends are there when romance falters. But in truth, female friendships “are just as complicated as marriages,” author Lucinda Rosenfeld tells Salon. That’s particularly true when it comes to envy, a theme of Rosenfeld’s new novel, I’m So Happy for You . We...http://www.newser.com/story/67826/ya-ya-sisterhoods-stab-you-in-the-back.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 26 Aug 2009 14:09:02 CDT