Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Tipping estimate/guidance on a restaurant bill increases diners' generosity.
Pain helps assuage feelings of guilt.
How workers compensate for windowless offices.
Marriages are more satisfying when wives are thinner than their husbands.
Does a higher income make you more altruistic?
Understanding the causes of women's underrepresentation in science - less to do with discrimination and more to do with the need for organisations to make it easier to balance work/life demands.
'These results suggest that antidepressant use among individuals without psychiatric diagnoses is common in the United States ...'
A call for clinical psychologists to be trained in psychopharmacology.
Why do we listen to music?
Would you swap your lottery ticket for someone else's? The price people are willing to pay to avoid regret.
Minding the gap between neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understanding of autism.
Reducing people's confidence in their memory leads them to perform more checking behaviour - study with implications for understanding OCD.
More research on healthy habit formation.
Classroom discipline across 41 countries. 'In countries that were poorer, more equal, or had more rigid gender roles, students reported higher classroom discipline'.
Progress in the development of an on-line atlas of the mouse brain.
Attempts to avoid ageism by dressing young could backfire. 'In three experiments we found that both male and female young adults negatively evaluated older adults who attempt to look younger compared to older adults who do not attempt to do so ...'
Cognitive neuroscience 2.0: building a cumulative science of human brain function.
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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: "People with easier-to-pronounce surnames occupy higher status positions in law firms" Congenitally blind humans can discern the emotional state of dog barks, even if they've never owned a...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: College students aren't very accurate at judging how drunk they are. The effects of weather on walking rates in nine cities. "Hey Mom, What’s on Your Facebook? Comparing Facebook Disclosure...
- Abstract Of The Day: Cognitive Demands On Functional Decisions
Alexander NB, Ashton-Miller JA, Giordani B, Guire K, & Schultz AB. Age differences in timed accurate stepping with increasing cognitive and visual demand: A walking trail making test. Jounal of Gerontology: A Biological Sciences and Med Sciences. 2005...
Neuroscience
Extras
Tipping estimate/guidance on a restaurant bill increases diners' generosity.
Pain helps assuage feelings of guilt.
How workers compensate for windowless offices.
Marriages are more satisfying when wives are thinner than their husbands.
Does a higher income make you more altruistic?
Understanding the causes of women's underrepresentation in science - less to do with discrimination and more to do with the need for organisations to make it easier to balance work/life demands.
'These results suggest that antidepressant use among individuals without psychiatric diagnoses is common in the United States ...'
A call for clinical psychologists to be trained in psychopharmacology.
Why do we listen to music?
Would you swap your lottery ticket for someone else's? The price people are willing to pay to avoid regret.
Minding the gap between neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understanding of autism.
Reducing people's confidence in their memory leads them to perform more checking behaviour - study with implications for understanding OCD.
More research on healthy habit formation.
Classroom discipline across 41 countries. 'In countries that were poorer, more equal, or had more rigid gender roles, students reported higher classroom discipline'.
Progress in the development of an on-line atlas of the mouse brain.
Attempts to avoid ageism by dressing young could backfire. 'In three experiments we found that both male and female young adults negatively evaluated older adults who attempt to look younger compared to older adults who do not attempt to do so ...'
Cognitive neuroscience 2.0: building a cumulative science of human brain function.
- 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: "People with easier-to-pronounce surnames occupy higher status positions in law firms" Congenitally blind humans can discern the emotional state of dog barks, even if they've never owned a...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: College students aren't very accurate at judging how drunk they are. The effects of weather on walking rates in nine cities. "Hey Mom, What’s on Your Facebook? Comparing Facebook Disclosure...
- Abstract Of The Day: Cognitive Demands On Functional Decisions
Alexander NB, Ashton-Miller JA, Giordani B, Guire K, & Schultz AB. Age differences in timed accurate stepping with increasing cognitive and visual demand: A walking trail making test. Jounal of Gerontology: A Biological Sciences and Med Sciences. 2005...