Neuroscience
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, creative people and people suffering from mental disorders appear to share some common personality and cognitive traits"
Which is the more cooperative sex? A meta-analytic review uncovers some interesting findings, including: "Male–male interactions are more cooperative than female–female interactions (d = 0.16), yet women cooperate more than men in mixed-sex interactions (d = −0.22)."
Would you take a pill to ease your traumatic memories? Attitudes about memory dampening drugs depend on context and country.
More dead than dead: Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state.
Chicks Like Consonant Music.
Beautiful babies are no more likely than average to grown into attractive adults.
Hungry like the wolf: A word-pattern analysis of the language of psychopaths.
"... men at risk of exhibiting sexually aggressive behaviour showed worse memory for women's sexual interest."
--Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
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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...
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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: 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,...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Why pop-up ads on the computer don't work and just annoy. Do people use reverse psychology in everyday life? Brief and rare mental “breaks” keep you focused. Men say they're less likely...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Is exposure therapy appropriate for use with older adults? 'The current case study details a course of prolonged exposure (PE) therapy in an 88-year-old, World War II veteran, diagnosed with...
Neuroscience
Extras
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, creative people and people suffering from mental disorders appear to share some common personality and cognitive traits"
Which is the more cooperative sex? A meta-analytic review uncovers some interesting findings, including: "Male–male interactions are more cooperative than female–female interactions (d = 0.16), yet women cooperate more than men in mixed-sex interactions (d = −0.22)."
Would you take a pill to ease your traumatic memories? Attitudes about memory dampening drugs depend on context and country.
More dead than dead: Perceptions of persons in the persistent vegetative state.
Chicks Like Consonant Music.
Beautiful babies are no more likely than average to grown into attractive adults.
Hungry like the wolf: A word-pattern analysis of the language of psychopaths.
"... men at risk of exhibiting sexually aggressive behaviour showed worse memory for women's sexual interest."
--Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- 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 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: 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: Why pop-up ads on the computer don't work and just annoy. Do people use reverse psychology in everyday life? Brief and rare mental “breaks” keep you focused. Men say they're less likely...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Is exposure therapy appropriate for use with older adults? 'The current case study details a course of prolonged exposure (PE) therapy in an 88-year-old, World War II veteran, diagnosed with...