Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
People dream about approaching things more than they dream about running away from them.
When getting angry is smart: Emotional preferences and emotional intelligence.
Towards the “Baby Connectome”: Mapping the Structural Connectivity of the Newborn Brain.
A brief history of social scientists’ attempts to measure passionate love.
This is the first report of tool-using behaviour in a wild brown bear.
On keeping your enemies close: Powerful leaders seek proximity to ingroup power threats.
Can an anger face also be scared? Malleability of facial expressions.
Republicans prefer leaders who they think look like a stereotypical republican: "Political Facial Stereotypes Predict Candidate Electoral Success Among Right-Leaning Voters"
What do music preferences reveal about personality? - a study with young Germans.
Rethinking the Emotional Brain.
Failing the Future: Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem's ‘Retroactive Facilitation of Recall’ Effect.
Seeing pics of high-calorie foods heightened the pleasure derived from a neutral taste.
"arousal is a fundamental mechanism mediating the effect of emotion on time perception ... " but it's not the whole story.
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Extras
10 eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Competitors in the Ultimate Fighting Championship who wear red trunks are no more likely to win than those wearing other-coloured trunks - contradicts past research suggesting a winning "red...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: People like their bosses to have high emotional intelligence, even more than high IQ. Also: "participants favoured young, male bosses and old, female bosses over old, male bosses and young, female...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Sounds like a good result for geeks - "A curious personality was linked to a wide range of adaptive behaviors including tolerance of anxiety and uncertainty, positive emotional expressiveness, initiation...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women's brains change in size across the menstrual cycle. Do positive children become positive adults? Reminders of death lead people to want to name their children after themselves. 10- to...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: If money doesn’t make us happy, why do we act as if it does? (Apologies to readers hoping to escape the non-stop financial news!). Teaching parents how to teach their children to read. Gender...
Neuroscience
Extras
People dream about approaching things more than they dream about running away from them.
When getting angry is smart: Emotional preferences and emotional intelligence.
Towards the “Baby Connectome”: Mapping the Structural Connectivity of the Newborn Brain.
A brief history of social scientists’ attempts to measure passionate love.
This is the first report of tool-using behaviour in a wild brown bear.
On keeping your enemies close: Powerful leaders seek proximity to ingroup power threats.
Can an anger face also be scared? Malleability of facial expressions.
Republicans prefer leaders who they think look like a stereotypical republican: "Political Facial Stereotypes Predict Candidate Electoral Success Among Right-Leaning Voters"
What do music preferences reveal about personality? - a study with young Germans.
Rethinking the Emotional Brain.
Failing the Future: Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem's ‘Retroactive Facilitation of Recall’ Effect.
Seeing pics of high-calorie foods heightened the pleasure derived from a neutral taste.
"arousal is a fundamental mechanism mediating the effect of emotion on time perception ... " but it's not the whole story.
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Extras
10 eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Competitors in the Ultimate Fighting Championship who wear red trunks are no more likely to win than those wearing other-coloured trunks - contradicts past research suggesting a winning "red...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: People like their bosses to have high emotional intelligence, even more than high IQ. Also: "participants favoured young, male bosses and old, female bosses over old, male bosses and young, female...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Sounds like a good result for geeks - "A curious personality was linked to a wide range of adaptive behaviors including tolerance of anxiety and uncertainty, positive emotional expressiveness, initiation...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women's brains change in size across the menstrual cycle. Do positive children become positive adults? Reminders of death lead people to want to name their children after themselves. 10- to...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: If money doesn’t make us happy, why do we act as if it does? (Apologies to readers hoping to escape the non-stop financial news!). Teaching parents how to teach their children to read. Gender...