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 | 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...
by jmalouff | Dec 6, 2020 | Health-related behavior, Human Thinking and Behavior
You might consider this a sh–ty article, but here we go. Let’s talk about poop. Specifically, I am interested in the information in poop. What information, you ask. Well, if you have fresh blood in there, you may have cancer, an ulcer, an auto-immune...
by jmalouff | Dec 6, 2020 | Human Thinking and Behavior, Positive psychology
You have done many different things in your life. Each action you did a first time. Some of these first-time actions are lost in the fog of childhood. Other first times burn brightly in your memory. For me, when I think about first times, I think about the birth of my...
by jmalouff | Oct 29, 2020 | Human Thinking and Behavior
You might think that it is a fool’s errand to try to predict the future, but some people are good at it. The experts on predicting the future are meteorologists. They helped the Allies decide to start the successful Normandy invasion on a...