Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Thermal imaging as a lie detection tool at airports.
'In comparison to their younger counterparts, older adults generally reported and expressed greater sympathy while observing the target persons' - age changes in three facets of empathy.
Participants were able to identify whether a stranger was a Mormon or not, merely based on their facial appearance (and controlling for the presence or absence of facial hair). [open access]
Why do we yawn?
Fact and fiction in the use of cognitive testing in staff recruitment.
Placebos are effective even when patients are told that it's a placebo (at least, for patients with IBS). [open access]
Cortical hubs in the infant brain.
How physical posture affects our feelings of power and our thinking style.
People with larger amygdalae (a temporal lobe structure involved in emotional learning) tend to have larger social networks. [open access]
People high in 'trait positivity' more often rejected unfair offers in an economic game, perhaps because they have a stronger sense of self-worth. [open access]
Rat study shows that stress can re-activate memories that are unrelated to the stressful experience. [open access]
How to deceive your research participants ethically - a guide for researchers.
The woman who experiences no fear.
- Extras
Eye-catching psychology studies that didn't make the final cut: What can we learn about emotion by studying psychopathy? [open access] Why do people attend science festivals? A tread-mill study of high-heel expertise: "high-heel experts adapted...
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: Anxiety disorders (Clinical Psychologist). Open-access journal publishing in psychology (Psychological Inquiry). open access Resilience in child development (The Journal of Child Psychology and...
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Schools (Psychology in The Schools). The Potential Contribution of Computational Modeling to the Study of Cognitive Development: When, and for...
- 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...
- Events I Will Be Leading
I thought some of you might be interested in this Continuing Ed class I'm co-teaching with Terry Plum in November about open access journals: "Open Access and Free Scholarly Resources: What Are They and How Can You Find Them?" Terry will answer these...
Neuroscience
Extras
Thermal imaging as a lie detection tool at airports.
'In comparison to their younger counterparts, older adults generally reported and expressed greater sympathy while observing the target persons' - age changes in three facets of empathy.
Participants were able to identify whether a stranger was a Mormon or not, merely based on their facial appearance (and controlling for the presence or absence of facial hair). [open access]
Why do we yawn?
Fact and fiction in the use of cognitive testing in staff recruitment.
Placebos are effective even when patients are told that it's a placebo (at least, for patients with IBS). [open access]
Cortical hubs in the infant brain.
How physical posture affects our feelings of power and our thinking style.
People with larger amygdalae (a temporal lobe structure involved in emotional learning) tend to have larger social networks. [open access]
People high in 'trait positivity' more often rejected unfair offers in an economic game, perhaps because they have a stronger sense of self-worth. [open access]
Rat study shows that stress can re-activate memories that are unrelated to the stressful experience. [open access]
How to deceive your research participants ethically - a guide for researchers.
The woman who experiences no fear.
- Extras
Eye-catching psychology studies that didn't make the final cut: What can we learn about emotion by studying psychopathy? [open access] Why do people attend science festivals? A tread-mill study of high-heel expertise: "high-heel experts adapted...
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: Anxiety disorders (Clinical Psychologist). Open-access journal publishing in psychology (Psychological Inquiry). open access Resilience in child development (The Journal of Child Psychology and...
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Schools (Psychology in The Schools). The Potential Contribution of Computational Modeling to the Study of Cognitive Development: When, and for...
- 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...
- Events I Will Be Leading
I thought some of you might be interested in this Continuing Ed class I'm co-teaching with Terry Plum in November about open access journals: "Open Access and Free Scholarly Resources: What Are They and How Can You Find Them?" Terry will answer these...