Quandaries such as those involving stealing a drug to save a spouse's life or whether or not to have an abortion have historically dominated the study of the development of moral thinking. The predominant research programs in psychology today use dilemmas in which one choice is deontologically correct (it is wrong to rotate a lever that will divert a train and kill one person instead of five), an
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September 17, 2010
Is Moral Psychology About Morals Or Their Function?
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September 10, 2010
UCLA Psychologist Says People Can Overcome Their Addictions, But Not Quickly
Millions of Americans suffer from severe addictions that can ruin lives and are extremely difficult to control. Nearly 2 million enter roughly 12,000 addiction treatment programs in the U.S. each year. And each month, some 15,000 people turn to Adi Jaffe's All About Addiction websites and at Psychology Today, which provide information, the latest research and answers to readers' questions...
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December 16, 2009
Why belief in free will is important: its pro-social and moral implications
I recently stumbled upon the Psychology Today blog of Roy F Baumeiester and went through some lively blog posts that were exchanged between him and other PT bloggers especially John Bargh on the issue of free will. Thoise exchanges are worth reading by themselves and are highly recommeneded.This post meanwhile is not about whether free will exists or not [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0
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October 20, 2009
How many shrinks does it take to change a diagnosis?
With debates still raging over the new version of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual, the DSM-V, a selection of radical new diagnoses have been submitted which may give the committee pause for thought.They have been carefully reviewed by Matthew Hutson over at Psychology Today and we include a couple so you can see how this paradigm shift in medical thinking may affect future practice:Napoleon
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August 13, 2009
Paths to Light and to Darkness in the Addiction Field
More than 25 years ago, I participated in a watershed moment in Psychology Today's, psychology's, and addiction treatment's history. Writing in the first issue of Psychology Today after it was purchased by the American Psychological Association, I reviewed the controversy in which alcoholism counselor Mary Pendery, psychologist Irving Maltzman, and psychiatrist L. Jolyon West published a refuta
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May 12, 2009
Between Client and Therapist (Psychology Today)
A solid patient-therapist relationship.
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Butt Out: Quit Smoking (Psychology Today)
Upping a person's chance of quitting.
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