Neuroscience
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 PTSD'.
Do Babies Learn From Baby Media?
Psychological aspects of the integration of women into combat roles.
Investigating the subtly different facial expressions associated with the positive emotions of interest, pride, pleasure, and joy.
Fathers, like mothers, show a bias for holding babies on the left side of their bodies.
Playing Tetris, but not a pub quiz, helped reduce traumatic flash backs.
Women apologise more than men because they have a lower threshold for what constitutes an offensive act.
A systematic review of the benefits of giving babies a daily massage.
Evidence for a weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - language properties affect children's number processing.
A 'values affirmation' task helped boost female college students' performance in a physics class, especially those who endorsed the stereotype that men are typically better at physics than women.
- Parenthood Seems To Have An Opposite Effect On How Men And Women Perceive Babies' Emotions
In our part of the world, a growing proportion of fathers are rolling up their sleeves and getting involved in early child care. This has prompted increased interest from psychologists in any similarities or differences in the way that mothers and fathers...
- 10 Surprising Things Babies Can Do
Human infants are helpless. At first they can't even support the weight of their own heads. Crawling and walking take months to master. Compare this with the sprightly newborns of other mammals, such as kittens and foals, up and about within an hour...
- 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 I didn't get a chance to report on in full: The personality profile of people who get bullied at work. Adults with autism are better than healthy controls at dividing their attention. The biological basis of the nocebo...
- Cognition In Babies
Newsweek's cover story for Aug 15 is all about "Your Baby's Brain". Reads like a literature review lite on cognition in babies -- fascinating, and simple enough for non-scientists to understand. That's the way I like my cognitive science!...
Neuroscience
Extras
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 PTSD'.
Do Babies Learn From Baby Media?
Psychological aspects of the integration of women into combat roles.
Investigating the subtly different facial expressions associated with the positive emotions of interest, pride, pleasure, and joy.
Fathers, like mothers, show a bias for holding babies on the left side of their bodies.
Playing Tetris, but not a pub quiz, helped reduce traumatic flash backs.
Women apologise more than men because they have a lower threshold for what constitutes an offensive act.
A systematic review of the benefits of giving babies a daily massage.
Evidence for a weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - language properties affect children's number processing.
A 'values affirmation' task helped boost female college students' performance in a physics class, especially those who endorsed the stereotype that men are typically better at physics than women.
- Parenthood Seems To Have An Opposite Effect On How Men And Women Perceive Babies' Emotions
In our part of the world, a growing proportion of fathers are rolling up their sleeves and getting involved in early child care. This has prompted increased interest from psychologists in any similarities or differences in the way that mothers and fathers...
- 10 Surprising Things Babies Can Do
Human infants are helpless. At first they can't even support the weight of their own heads. Crawling and walking take months to master. Compare this with the sprightly newborns of other mammals, such as kittens and foals, up and about within an hour...
- 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 I didn't get a chance to report on in full: The personality profile of people who get bullied at work. Adults with autism are better than healthy controls at dividing their attention. The biological basis of the nocebo...
- Cognition In Babies
Newsweek's cover story for Aug 15 is all about "Your Baby's Brain". Reads like a literature review lite on cognition in babies -- fascinating, and simple enough for non-scientists to understand. That's the way I like my cognitive science!...