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Use this tag for questions about understanding, predicting, and changing the thoughts, emotions, and specifically psychological theories of behavior should use this tag. However, this excludes questions about specific claims, beliefs, or superstitions that would be better categorized under other, more specific tags, including behavior, brain, consciousness, superstition, esp, ghosts, religion, spirituality, energy, and meditation.

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Are homosexual men substantially more likely to be pedophiles than heterosexual men?

There seem to be a common reaction towards finding out a man is gay where people think they should keep an eye on their children. To add at least one quote from a rather inflammatory post: I believe …
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Pornography and the male libido

This is actually pretty hard to research because of the huge pile of papers that has been touching this subject in one way or another, but also because of paywalls. I haven't found anything that direc …
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Does objectifying women in advertisement cause violence against their gender?

Is there support in psychology that this is actually happening? That people being depicted as objects would cause others to commit violence against them? …
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Do the effects of Chromotherapy have support in scientific literature?

The above mentioned picture made it to my Facebook feed. While it doesn't sound unreasonable that there can be a psychological effect of some colors, I got a bit skeptical regarding the claim that y …
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Do violent video games cause violent behavior?

The Swedish Media Council released a report reviewing the state of the research in Swedish, I've summarized and translated below. There is also an article published in English over on the local. From …
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Have any questions where the underlying cause was thought to have had both a psychological a...

In an answer to Are human beings naturally predisposed to believe in God? one answer makes the following claims: Note that social-mental questions as basic as "is Sex innate?" or "IQ, breeding or …