Why People Self Medicate?

Why people self-verify.

Why do people choose interaction partners who see them as they see themselves? Self-verification theorists propose that a desire to bolster perceptions of predictability and control underlies such activities. In contrast, advocates of positivity strivings argue that people choose such interaction partners in the hope of making themselves feel good. Two studies tested these competing explanation...

News feature: Animals that self-medicate.

Birds, bees, lizards, elephants, and chimpanzees all share a survival trait: They selfmedicate. These animals eat things that make them feel better, or prevent disease, or kill parasites like flatworms, bacteria, and viruses, or just to aid in digestion. Even creatures with brains the size of pinheads somehow know to ingest certain plants or use them in unusual ways when they need them. Anyone ...

To medicate or not to medicate?

With summer upon us, many parents are questioning the need to have their child or adolescent with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) take their stimulant medication when they are not in school. When trying to answer this question, it is important to remember that ADHD does not just affect individuals when they are in school. While the deficits in ADHD may be most apparent in academ...

(Why) do selfish people self-select in economics?

Several game-theoretical lab experiments helped establish the belief that economists are more selfish than non-economists. Since differences in behaviour between experiment participants who are students of economics and those who are not may be observed among junior students as well, it is nowadays widely believed that the origin of the greater selfishness is not the training they undergo, but ...

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