Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
The last chocolate tastes the best.
Men with beards are judged to be higher status, more aggressive, but less attractive.
Taking the beta-blocker propranolol associated with reduced implicit racism.
People who are kind to themselves are more caring and supportive of their romantic partners.
Violence among female stalkers.
Mental fatigue makes us more sensitive to serious transgressions but actually less sensitive to minor ones.
The map in your head faces north.
You look as good as you feel. Exercise benefits people's body image even when their weight/shape hasn't changed.
How impulsive tendencies and attitudes interact with self-control to predict time spent watching porn.
If you're slow at the traffic lights, you're likely to get honked earlier if you're in a red car.
Suffering childhood maltreatment is associated with having reduced volume in parts of the hippocampus.
Food deprivation sensitizes pain perception. The finding has implications for emotional disturbances associated with eating disorders.
Surely snack companies will resist this: occasional differently coloured crisps in a tube of crisps was found to reduce consumption - presumably because they provide a marker of how much you've eaten.
Public skepticism of psychology: Why many people perceive the study of human behavior as unscientific.
We forage through our semantic memories like animals forage for food.
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base. [open access] Why men and women dehumanize sexually objectified women. "According to our findings,...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Our dreams lose their colour as we get older. (see earlier item on the Digest). Infant whining is uniquely distracting, even more than machine noise (pdf). For Fun, Love, or Money: What Drives...
- "just Looking At A Cake Makes Me Feel Fatter"
Have you ever caught yourself staring at sumptuously-formed cake, only to come away with the guilty feeling that the mere act of looking has led you to put on weight? If so, you're not alone. Following research showing that people with eating disorders...
- Mindless Eating: The Food Decisions We Don’t Realise We’re Making
How many food-related decisions do you think you make every day? When Brian Wansink and Jeffery Sobal of Cornell University asked 139 participants this question, the average answer was 14 decisions. But then the participants were asked to break a typical...
- Body Image - It's 'healthy' People Who Are Deluded
We’re all going to die and there’s nothing we can do about it. Depressing? Well, it’s been argued that depressed people are the sane ones because they see the world for how it really is. Now consider this – a study has found people with eating...
Neuroscience
Extras
The last chocolate tastes the best.
Men with beards are judged to be higher status, more aggressive, but less attractive.
Taking the beta-blocker propranolol associated with reduced implicit racism.
People who are kind to themselves are more caring and supportive of their romantic partners.
Violence among female stalkers.
Mental fatigue makes us more sensitive to serious transgressions but actually less sensitive to minor ones.
The map in your head faces north.
You look as good as you feel. Exercise benefits people's body image even when their weight/shape hasn't changed.
How impulsive tendencies and attitudes interact with self-control to predict time spent watching porn.
If you're slow at the traffic lights, you're likely to get honked earlier if you're in a red car.
Suffering childhood maltreatment is associated with having reduced volume in parts of the hippocampus.
Food deprivation sensitizes pain perception. The finding has implications for emotional disturbances associated with eating disorders.
Surely snack companies will resist this: occasional differently coloured crisps in a tube of crisps was found to reduce consumption - presumably because they provide a marker of how much you've eaten.
Public skepticism of psychology: Why many people perceive the study of human behavior as unscientific.
We forage through our semantic memories like animals forage for food.
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base. [open access] Why men and women dehumanize sexually objectified women. "According to our findings,...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Our dreams lose their colour as we get older. (see earlier item on the Digest). Infant whining is uniquely distracting, even more than machine noise (pdf). For Fun, Love, or Money: What Drives...
- "just Looking At A Cake Makes Me Feel Fatter"
Have you ever caught yourself staring at sumptuously-formed cake, only to come away with the guilty feeling that the mere act of looking has led you to put on weight? If so, you're not alone. Following research showing that people with eating disorders...
- Mindless Eating: The Food Decisions We Don’t Realise We’re Making
How many food-related decisions do you think you make every day? When Brian Wansink and Jeffery Sobal of Cornell University asked 139 participants this question, the average answer was 14 decisions. But then the participants were asked to break a typical...
- Body Image - It's 'healthy' People Who Are Deluded
We’re all going to die and there’s nothing we can do about it. Depressing? Well, it’s been argued that depressed people are the sane ones because they see the world for how it really is. Now consider this – a study has found people with eating...