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• Americans give less after tragedies
It's too much pain, too much tragedy for someone to process, and so we tend to pull ourselves away from it and either close off from it out of psychological defense, or it overwhelms us," says Cynthia Edwards, a professor of psychology at Meredith ...
• Polygamy families battle for custody
Barlow, 34, must take parenting classes, find a safe living environment and undergo a psychological evaluation, according to the plan. "This plan is so vague and so broad that my client has no idea what she can do now," attorney Donna Guion said.
• Your initials may spell success
This relationship between a person's initials and how well he or she performs in school was recently determined in a series of psychological studies examining how the so-called "name-letter effect" influences performance in different situations. The ...
• Wanted: Paris Hilton players
Candidates for the "roomolition" must undergo strength tests, a psychological exam and a physical test to determine how stressed they are before they are selected to take part in the event. The physical activity involved in trashing the hotel rooms ...
• Oil spikes to record above $117 a barrel
NEW YORK - News that Saudi Arabia had boosted its oil output by 300,000 barrels a day was greeted as a non-event on oil markets — the move wasn’t anywhere near the kind of production increase needed to bring prices down on Friday. And traders ...

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» Disinformation - Links to op ed pieces, sites with information about multinational corporations, how advertising and public relations distort the 'real' story.
» Government Research into E.S.P. and Mind Control - Aims to expose over forty years of U.S. government research into ESP and the psychological 'technology' of individual mind control using drugs, hypnosis and abuse.
» Psychological Operations - Includes history, links, and related information on operations to demoralize the enemy, as used in the Gulf War, Panama, Somalia, Korea, and Vietnam.
» Psywar Society - From the International Association of Collectors of Aerial Propaganda Leaflets and Psychological Warfare Historians. With articles, references, and related links.