Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Local effects on people's belief in global warming. Can I call this the Daily Express effect? "Respondents who thought that day [they were surveyed] was warmer than usual believed more in and had greater concern about global warming than did respondents who thought that day was colder than usual"
Social relationships get better with age. Here's why.
Can you pay people to remember better? Only if the material is boring.
The experiences of psychologists from different countries in responding to crises, including natural disasters.
Children as young as five show a preference for other children of the same race. This new study shows the same is not true of infants.
Bad smells encourage condom use.
Frequent sex can stop neuroticism from harming marital satisfaction.
How metaphors affect our reasoning. "We find that exposure to even a single metaphor can induce substantial differences in opinion about how to solve social problems ..." Coverage from Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
An analysis of the role that different aspects of executive functioning play in student procrastination.
Believing more in chance or fate helps people cope with the death of a spouse.
The present research examined who tends to experience music-induced chills and why.
Available in all good toy stores (or maybe not) - the Implicit Association Test for kids.
A clinical study of those who utter threats to kill.
Whatever Happened to Counseling in Counseling Psychology?
People primed to feel more socially secure subsequently placed less monetary value on their possessions.
Creative people are judged as less suitable for leadership positions.
- Dead Plants Encourage Belief In Global Warming
In 2006, the Conservative party in the UK unveiled its new logo - a scribbled sketch of a healthy-looking oak tree. The image was intended in part to communicate the party's renewed dedication to environmental causes. A new study by French psychologist...
- Apocalyptic Climate Change Warnings Can Be Counter-productive
Many people believe implicitly that the world is fair, that bad things by and large don't happen to good people. When presented with evidence to the contrary, they ignore or downplay it. According to Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer, this is exactly...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut (plus some other tit-bits): Did working memory spark creative culture? How thinking of sex vs. love changes our mode of mental processing. Thinking of love boosts our global processing, including...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The simple act of stepping backwards seems to boost people's cognitive control, as measured by the Stroop test. More evidence for the embodiment of cognition. The objectification of women -...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: All you ever wanted to know about the clinical and neurobiological aspects of the placebo effect. Reasons for not owning a pet, as given by older people in Australia. (see earlier). What men think...
Neuroscience
Extras
Local effects on people's belief in global warming. Can I call this the Daily Express effect? "Respondents who thought that day [they were surveyed] was warmer than usual believed more in and had greater concern about global warming than did respondents who thought that day was colder than usual"
Social relationships get better with age. Here's why.
Can you pay people to remember better? Only if the material is boring.
The experiences of psychologists from different countries in responding to crises, including natural disasters.
Children as young as five show a preference for other children of the same race. This new study shows the same is not true of infants.
Bad smells encourage condom use.
Frequent sex can stop neuroticism from harming marital satisfaction.
How metaphors affect our reasoning. "We find that exposure to even a single metaphor can induce substantial differences in opinion about how to solve social problems ..." Coverage from Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
An analysis of the role that different aspects of executive functioning play in student procrastination.
Believing more in chance or fate helps people cope with the death of a spouse.
The present research examined who tends to experience music-induced chills and why.
Available in all good toy stores (or maybe not) - the Implicit Association Test for kids.
A clinical study of those who utter threats to kill.
Whatever Happened to Counseling in Counseling Psychology?
People primed to feel more socially secure subsequently placed less monetary value on their possessions.
Creative people are judged as less suitable for leadership positions.
- Dead Plants Encourage Belief In Global Warming
In 2006, the Conservative party in the UK unveiled its new logo - a scribbled sketch of a healthy-looking oak tree. The image was intended in part to communicate the party's renewed dedication to environmental causes. A new study by French psychologist...
- Apocalyptic Climate Change Warnings Can Be Counter-productive
Many people believe implicitly that the world is fair, that bad things by and large don't happen to good people. When presented with evidence to the contrary, they ignore or downplay it. According to Matthew Feinberg and Robb Willer, this is exactly...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut (plus some other tit-bits): Did working memory spark creative culture? How thinking of sex vs. love changes our mode of mental processing. Thinking of love boosts our global processing, including...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The simple act of stepping backwards seems to boost people's cognitive control, as measured by the Stroop test. More evidence for the embodiment of cognition. The objectification of women -...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: All you ever wanted to know about the clinical and neurobiological aspects of the placebo effect. Reasons for not owning a pet, as given by older people in Australia. (see earlier). What men think...