by jmalouff | Jan 20, 2021 | Health-related behavior, Human Thinking and Behavior
George Orwell was an idiot. Yes, he wrote the two most impactful novels of the 20th Century: Animal Farm, mocking communism, and 1984, showing the horrors of future totalitarian government. Give him credit there. But he also did something highly foolish. He went to...
by jmalouff | Jan 20, 2021 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Social psychology
We do a lot to make ourselves look more attractive. Men and women use hair dye to avoid the appearance of aging. Some people with curly hair straighten it. Others with straight hair curl it. We style hair, we comb, we brush. Where we have too much...
by jmalouff | Jan 19, 2021 | Human Thinking and Behavior, law and psychology, Sexual assault, Social psychology
John M. Malouff and Nicola S. Schutte University of New England, Australia January 2021 Abstract Crime-allegation recantation involves victims of crimes rescinding their accusation. In some instances of recantation, the original allegation was...
by jmalouff | Jan 2, 2021 | Mental health problems
I interviewed three young adults who had each made serious suicide attempts as teens. The attempts included taking an overdose of drugs, jumping off a cliff, and self-cutting. All three were hospitalized after the attempts. From their attempts and the aftermath, these...
by jmalouff | Dec 6, 2020 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Social psychology
I just listened to a podcast about a 2004 crime case in the UK. A 14-year-old boy, “John,” pretended in an online chat room to be several different people: a teen girl, a man who killed the girl, and a woman leader of British Intelligence. His goal...