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· Heather Johnson Yu
PSY’s Secret Message UNCOVERED in His Music After All These Years
Psy, Psy, Psy…thought you could fool us, didn’t you? Thought you were sneaky, didn’t you?
· Ryan General
PSY Finally Reveals How He Felt After ‘Gangnam Style’s’ Crazy Success
“Gangnam Style” was the phenomenon that took the world by surprise back in 2012, making South Korean singer PSY a household name and a multi-millionaire. However, he recently revealed in an interview that the global fame the massive viral hit brought him was also the most…
· Carl Samson
Psychologist Argues Chinese People Think Like 6-Month-Old Infants
A psychologist has argued that most Chinese people have the mental age of a six-month-old and never got out of what Sigmund Freud called the oral stage in his psychosexual theory of development. The oral stage is the first of Freud’s five stages, where the mouth serves as the…
· King Malleta
Japanese Psychic Ordered to Pay $850,000 to Client She Forced into Sex Work
A fortune teller has been ordered to pay a massive amount of money to a female client after she forced her to become a sex worker. Fortune telling is something you shouldn’t really take seriously as there is no strong basis for such predictions, but while other people do it for…
· Ryan General
Beloved Chinese Psychology Professor Stabbed to Death By USC Student
A beloved Chinese psychology professor at the University of Southern California was stabbed to death by a student following an alleged “personal dispute” within the university campus on Friday afternoon. The suspect, 28-year-old brain and cognitive science student David Jonathan…
· Ryan General
Woman Claims She Was Raped By a Pokémon, Husband Urges Her to Seek Psychiatric Help
A young married woman from Russia filed a formal complaint to the local police after she was allegedly raped by a Pokémon. The assault, according to the unnamed victim, happened inside her room in her apartment in Moscow. Police said the complainant fell asleep while playing…
· Editorial Staff
An Alarming Number of Hong Kong Teens are Seeking Psychiatric Help, According to Report
An increasing number of young people in Hong Kong are seeking treatment for psychiatric problems, according to local public hospital records. There were a total of 4,200 mental health patients aged between 15 and 17 in 2015, a 45% increase from 2010. Also in 2015, there were…
· Laura Hospes
Suicidal 20-Year-Old Photographer Captures Life Inside a Psychiatric Ward to Recover
I was 20, studying photography and, as they say, living life the fullest. But that was not the real me.
· Riley Schatzle
Psychology Professor Gives the Most Evil Extra Credit Problem to His Students
Dylan Selterman, a psychology professor at the University of Maryland, has been assigning the same extra credit problem on his final exam since 2008 — only one class has ever answered correctly. The prompt reads:
· Max Chang
Psychology Study Exposes a Scary Truth About People Who Are Nice All the Time
A new psychology study published this month in the Journal of Personality has revealed a dark truth about the nicest and friendliest people in our society- they are probably more capable of doing the most horrific things if ordered to. Stanley Milgram, a pioneer in social…
· Ryan General
Last ‘Comfort Woman’ in China Who Sued the Japanese Government Dies at Age 90
China’s last surviving “comfort woman” who sued the Japanese government for her sexual enslavement during the second world war has passed away on Saturday. Without ever achieving justice for the crimes committed against her and thousands of other Chinese victims of the Imperial…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Asian Men Lured to Their Deaths Using Dating App in Houston Area
Two cousins, Brandon Alexander Lyons and Jerrett Jamal Allen, used a dating app to lure at least two Asian men to their deaths, according to the NY Post. Lyons, 18, of Houston was charged with the murder of Glenser Soliman on Monday. Soliman, a 44 year old nurse, was reported…
· Carl Samson
Why Foreign Tourists Continue to Refuse to Visit China
Despite their infamous reputation for committing a slew of “uncivilized” behaviors — from destroying Malaysian marine life to trashing South Korean airports to stealing Japanese toilet seats — Chinese travelers have been making the biggest contributions to global tourism since…
· Jenny Shay
How Eastern Medicine Discourages Asians From Seeking Mental Healthcare
A couple months ago, my doctor diagnosed me with moderate anxiety. I suspected that this was the case for many years, so the diagnosis came as somewhat of a relief. My panic attacks, rumination, and waves of low self-esteem can finally be defined, explained, and understood.…
· Ryan General
Asian-Americans Seen as ‘More American’ If They Are Fat, Study Finds
New research published in Psychological Science has found that people view Asian-Americans who are overweight to be more “American,” making them less prone to racial discrimination. In the study, images of people from various races, and of different body shapes, were shown to…
· Ryan General
Bangladeshi Model Hangs Herself While on Video Call With Her Husband
A young Bangladeshi model recently committed suicide by hanging herself during a video call with her husband. Risila Binte Wazer let her husband Imrul Hasan watch as she took her own life inside her apartment, according to Dhaka Tribune.
· Khier Casino
Netflix Drops Trailer for Angelina Jolie’s Controversial ‘First They Killed My Father’
Netflix just released the first trailer for “First They Killed My Father”, which is based on the memoir of Loung Ung of the same name and her experience under the Khmer Rouge. The film, directed by Angelina Jolie, follows Ung as a child in Cambodia in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge…
· Carl Samson
Japanese Women’s Ideal Husband is Someone Making Lots of Money, Survey Finds
Most Japanese women want to spend the rest of their lives with a man who appears to be fairly ordinary, working in the office to make money, a new survey suggests. IBJ, a marriage consultation company, surveyed 556 single Japanese women in their 20s to 40s about their ideal…
· Carl Samson
Western Men Have Declining Sperm Counts, Asian Men Safe, Study Finds
Men living in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand have falling sperm counts, a newly-published study has reported. Dr. Hagai Levine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem led the meta-analysis of 185 studies, which involved 42,935 male participants from 50 different…
· Carl Samson
One-Third of Students Living in Rural China Are ‘Left-Behind’ Children
Nearly a third of students living in rural China have been categorized as “left-behind children,” or children under the age of 16 whose migrant worker parents have left them behind to seek work elsewhere. On the Road to School, a non-government organization that provides…