Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Brain scanning unborn babies to investigate the origins of hemispheric lateralisation.
Media use by people with and without depression.
Children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits their cheating.
The impact of psychopathic traits on relationship satisfaction.
Improving general intelligence with a nutrient-based pharmacological intervention.
Facing an incompetent leader: The effects of a nonexpert leader on subordinates' perception and behaviour.
Do Horses Have a Concept of Person?
Is there an inversion effect for bodies as well as faces? [background]
A case of beat-deafness, a new form of amusia.
Cross-cultural differences in the factors that lead to the formation of flash-bulb memories.
How the sight of overweight people can lead us to eat more.
Tummy rumblings during psychotherapy.
This post was compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Just Because You're Tone Deaf Doesn't Mean You Aren't Musical
Psychologists estimate that around 4 per cent of the population have a specific impairment affecting their processing of pitch. Tone deafness, or "amusia" to use its technical name, runs in families and it often goes hand in hand with an inability to...
- 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...
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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: Cross-cultural differences in the way people in USA, UK and Malaysia view intelligence. When people of Christian faith think about themselves, a different pattern of activity is observed in their...
- Extras
Other eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: People who have memories of a 'previous life' are more likely to forget where they first encountered a person's name - a finding that provides a small clue as to why they believe...
Neuroscience
Extras
Brain scanning unborn babies to investigate the origins of hemispheric lateralisation.
Media use by people with and without depression.
Children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits their cheating.
The impact of psychopathic traits on relationship satisfaction.
Improving general intelligence with a nutrient-based pharmacological intervention.
Facing an incompetent leader: The effects of a nonexpert leader on subordinates' perception and behaviour.
Do Horses Have a Concept of Person?
Is there an inversion effect for bodies as well as faces? [background]
A case of beat-deafness, a new form of amusia.
Cross-cultural differences in the factors that lead to the formation of flash-bulb memories.
How the sight of overweight people can lead us to eat more.
Tummy rumblings during psychotherapy.
This post was compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Just Because You're Tone Deaf Doesn't Mean You Aren't Musical
Psychologists estimate that around 4 per cent of the population have a specific impairment affecting their processing of pitch. Tone deafness, or "amusia" to use its technical name, runs in families and it often goes hand in hand with an inability to...
- 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: 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: Cross-cultural differences in the way people in USA, UK and Malaysia view intelligence. When people of Christian faith think about themselves, a different pattern of activity is observed in their...
- Extras
Other eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: People who have memories of a 'previous life' are more likely to forget where they first encountered a person's name - a finding that provides a small clue as to why they believe...