Psychology Around the Net: July 8, 2017

Happy Saturday, sweet readers! I hope you’re all having a great weekend (or whatever day you’re reading this!), but you definitely want to take a few minutes to check out this week’s Psychology Around the Net which tells us more about canine compulsion disorder (and how learning about it helps us also learn about human obsessive-compulsive disorder), the emotional intelligence behind internet trolls, how to deal with friends who always bail, and more. Dogs With OCD Are Helping Scientists Understand the Human Version of the Disorder: Have you heard of canine compulsive disorder (CCD)? Similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in humans, the canine compulsions often “fit into neat categories” and can be so extreme they take over all basic functioning, including eating and sleeping, and can even be fatal. Psychologists Have Identified the Kind of Emotional Intelligence That Makes Internet Trolls So Mean: Researchers from the School of Health Science and Psychology at Federation University surveyed 415 people to determine what might make them susceptible to online trolling behavior. The survey focused on social skills, sadism, psychopathy, and two types of empathy (cognitive, which deals with being able to understand people’s emotions, and affective, which deals with experiencing, internalizing, and responding to other people’s emotions), and the results showed the “trolls” scored higher in two categories: psychopathy a...
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