Neuroscience
10 eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
We perceive people we trust as more physically similar to ourselves
"Cougars on the prowl? New perceptions of older women's sexuality"
Using magic tricks to explore the psychology of insight.
"Skin tone memory bias" … Educated black men are remembered as whiter than they really are
Comedians score unusually high on four psychotic traits.
Mind wandering becomes less frequent with aging, but more pervasive and detrimental to performance
No difference in personality between Mac users and PC users. The former just dress better (joke!)
How much insight do we have into our own implicit attitudes? Are they really unconscious?
New study says women really are better at choosing gifts than men.
Reminders of fast food spoil our ability to savour beauty in music and nature.
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Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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Neuroscience
Extras
We perceive people we trust as more physically similar to ourselves
"Cougars on the prowl? New perceptions of older women's sexuality"
Using magic tricks to explore the psychology of insight.
"Skin tone memory bias" … Educated black men are remembered as whiter than they really are
Comedians score unusually high on four psychotic traits.
Mind wandering becomes less frequent with aging, but more pervasive and detrimental to performance
No difference in personality between Mac users and PC users. The former just dress better (joke!)
How much insight do we have into our own implicit attitudes? Are they really unconscious?
New study says women really are better at choosing gifts than men.
Reminders of fast food spoil our ability to savour beauty in music and nature.
_________________________________
Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Pornography Use Correlates With Pro-feminist Attitudes, According To Us Survey
Radical feminism conceives of pornography as fundamentally harmful to women; it is, in the words of anti-pornography activist Gail Dines, “the most succinct and crisp deliverer of a woman-hating ideology.” But past research on how porn influences...
- You Don't Have To Be Well-educated To Be An ‘aversive Racist’, But It Helps
Are you a racist? Most likely, your answer is no – and perhaps you find the very notion offensive. But according to two Cardiff University psychologists, Kuppens and Spears, many educated people harbor prejudiced attitudes even though they deny it....
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: "In two experiments we showed that exposure to an incidental black and white visual contrast leads people to think in a 'black and white' manner" Evolutionary explanations of cognitive biases...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: People look younger when they smile. Narcissism comes in three different flavours - vulnerable, grandiose and aggressive. We eat more when different food types are presented on a plate separately,...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The science of stepping off a kerb. Women's telephone calls last longer than men's. What's it like to live with parents who have OCD? Appealing to a sense of common humanity among...