Published: April 28, 2011
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New University of Otago, Christchurch, Research has identified common factors in the far-reaching childhood behavioural conditions, Conduct Disorder (CD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), including maternal smoking during pregnancy and exposure to family violence.
Data for the study was drawn from the long-running Christchurch Health and Development Study and results were published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Lead researcher Dr Joe Boden says the study examined the influence of a number of common childhood social and environmental factors which contribute to the development of CD and ODD.
Boden says the disorders frequently co-occur, so individuals with symptoms of one disorder have a strong likelihood of having symptoms of the other. [continue reading…]
Published: December 26, 2010
People are strongly influenced by what is socially acceptable misbehaviour within their own culture. Dan Ariely tells RSA’s Matthew Taylor why it’s only by understanding our weaknesses that we can learn to anticipate and avoid mistakes . Curious? Continue reading
Source: RSA
Published: December 9, 2010
It’s been called the “warrior gene” – a mutation that seems to make people more aggressive. Now researchers report that people with this gene may not be aggressive, just better at spotting their own interests. Curious? Continue reading
Source: New Scientist
Published: April 12, 2010
Evolutionary Psychologist,Satoshi Kanazawa discusses why humans are, in a sense, hardwired to be conservative, and it requires a unique intelligence to acquire something as evolutionarily novel as liberalism.
Source:bigthink
