The Media Psychology Blog

I was excited by a recent article in ScienceDaily (How Red Wine Compounds Fight Alzheimer’s Disease ). I’m quite sure it is all a matter of balance, but I really like red wine, so these research findings really work well for me. I do try to keep informed about developments in nutrition. [...]

[Read more →]

I’m supposed to be packing because moving vans come tomorrow, but I had to remark on this story in the Washington Post: Most Calif. blacks backed proposition 8: 53% of Latinos Also Supported Proposition 8
In it, Vick and Surdin write:
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 — Any notion that Tuesday’s election represented a liberal juggernaut must [...]

[Read more →]

Scott Kaufman in a Psychology Today blog discusses research claiming that conservatives are less creative (Are conservatives less creative than liberals?).  Kaufman is fairly even-handed, but I have a problem with research that takes several political policy positions and uses that to establish that some is a “conservative” since that has a much broader social [...]

[Read more →]

I had a question from a reporter this morning about post-election withdrawal.  What are all those people who have been “addicted” to websites, TV, and text messaging to follow the election going to do with themselves?
Call me an optimist, but I don’t think it’s going to be a problem.  First of all “addicted” is a [...]

[Read more →]

Twitter Vote Report is a non-partison network of people working to capture the experience of voting—long lines, broken machines, errors in registration, etc.  It works by having individuals all over the country report on their experience.
You submit a report a number of ways:
By Twitter: Post a tweet that includes the hashtag #votereport. More tags.
By Text [...]

[Read more →]