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Facebook More Tantalizing Than Sex
Discovery News: I wish I could resurrect some of the great literary libertines — Baudelaire, Nin, Rimbaud, to name a few — if anything, just to see their puzzled reactions and responses when they read
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Checking Facebook or Twitter is more tempting than sex or cigarettes, says study
The Daily Mail: Checking social networking sites is more tempting than sex and cigarettes, a study has revealed. Researchers at Chicago University’s Booth Business School used BlackBerrys to log reports about participants’ willpower and desires
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Craving an Ice-Cream Fix
The New York Times: The notion that food can be addictive has been debated for some time and largely rejected by both nutrition and addiction researchers. But this spring, the secretary of health, Kathleen Sebelius
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Psychological Science, Treatment, and Research in the Digital Age
In the digital age, when we have something to say we tweet, text, email, post, and blog our hearts out. Researchers have taken note and are recognizing that phone and web-based technology has the potential
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Can You Be Addicted to Social Media?
Everyday Health: These days, you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who isn’t caught up in a world of status updates, re-tweets, followers and check-ins. Social media has certainly made it easier for people to connect
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Study: Moody Toddlers Could End Up as Compulsive Gamblers
Education Week: Is your 3-year-old overly cranky, impulsive and restless? If the answer is yes, you could be raising a future gambler. So says a new study published recently in the journal Psychological Science that