Happy Saturday, sweet readers!
I hope you’re all having a great weekend (or whatever day you’re reading this!), but you definitely want to take a few minutes to check out this week’s Psychology Around the Net which tells us more about canine compulsion disorder (and how learning about it helps us also learn about human obsessive-compulsive disorder), the emotional intelligence behind internet trolls, how to deal with friends who always bail, and more.
Dogs With OCD Are Helping Scientists Understand the Human Version of the Disorder: Have you heard of canine compulsive disorder (CCD)? Similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in humans, the canine compulsions often “fit into neat categories” and can be so extreme they take over all basic functioning, including eating and sleeping, and can even be fatal.
Psychologists Have Identified the Kind of Emotional Intelligence That Makes Internet Trolls So Mean: Researchers from the School of Health Science and Psychology at Federation University surveyed 415 people to determine what might make them susceptible to online trolling behavior. The survey focused on social skills, sadism, psychopathy, and two types of empathy (cognitive, which deals with being able to understand people’s emotions, and affective, which deals with experiencing, internalizing, and responding to other people’s emotions), and the results showed the “trolls” scored higher in two categories: psychopathy and cognitive empathy. The researchers point out that mixing cognitive empathy (again, being able to understand another person’s emotions) with psychopathy (simply put, not caring about others’ emotions) makes for a dangerous blend.
Sarah Hall: ‘Short Stories Are a Place for Dark Psychology’: Calling all writers! You might find what this novelist has to say about a short story’s ability to be “a place for dark psychology and a potent literary dosage” and why she prefers a story that hits her with a “huge wallop” quite interesting.
This Is How You Confront a Chronic Flaker: If you’ve never had a flaky friend, good for you. If you’ve never been a flaky friend, even better. However, the flakes are out there, and clinical psychologist Kris Boksman provides some pretty common (and understandable) reasons for being a flake (such as suffering from depression or anxiety or lacking assertiveness — or, just being a thoughtless person overall). Fortunately, there are several ways to confront your flaky friend which potentially could strengthen your friendship — or get rid of the hassle altogether.
MDMA Will Be Used To Treat Alcohol Addiction In Clinical Trial: There have been studies related to the effectiveness of MDMA, the active ingredient in Ecstasy, in treating anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Now, researchers at Imperial College London are conducting the world’s first clinical trial to examine the benefits of people dealing with alcohol addiction.
Create Hilarious Fake Inspirational Messages With InspiroBot: I won’t say “We all love a good inspirational quote,” because that’s just not true. I mean, who couldn’t use a little inspiration from time to time? However, the Internet — social media, specifically — shoves so many inspirational messages down our throats that what’s supposed to be inspiring us, motivating us, is actually starting to jade us. So, need a little humor? Try InspiroBot. It generates random inspirational messages for those of us who need a laugh every now and then. (Yet…I just got “After the dream comes the moment” which is actually pretty inspirational in a completely unobnoxious way.)
from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/07/08/psychology-around-the-net-july-8-2017/
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