Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Evidence against two claims about mirror neurons.
Another Milgram replication, this time in an 'immersive video environment'.
Incidental tactile sensations affect our social judgments - for example, interviewers holding a heavier clip board perceive job candidates to be more important.
Personality research with apes and monkeys.
A test for distinguishing between major depression in the elderly and the depression associated with Alzheimer's Disease.
'These findings indicate that basic number processing in adults with dyslexia is intact.'
Examining the acceptance of and resistance to evolutionary psychology [pdf]
Women more likely to give their phone number to a man after they've listened to music with romantic lyrics.
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Danish study: 95-year-olds tested in 2010 had better cognitive functioning than 93-yr-olds tested a decade earlier. Control groups in psychology don't take full account of the placebo effect....
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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...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Establishing cognitive norms for centenarians. How do children with autism and children with Down Syndrome react to their mirror image? Heterosexual men with more cause to be concerned by 'sperm...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: What do we mean when we say a public figure has integrity? Ageing associated with a deficit in recognising hand gestures (even when other cognition remains intact). What clinical psychologists...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: The role of auditory 'mirror neurons' in human empathy. In monkeys, these cells are activated both when a certain action is performed and when the sound of that action is...
Neuroscience
Extras
Evidence against two claims about mirror neurons.
Another Milgram replication, this time in an 'immersive video environment'.
Incidental tactile sensations affect our social judgments - for example, interviewers holding a heavier clip board perceive job candidates to be more important.
Personality research with apes and monkeys.
A test for distinguishing between major depression in the elderly and the depression associated with Alzheimer's Disease.
'These findings indicate that basic number processing in adults with dyslexia is intact.'
Examining the acceptance of and resistance to evolutionary psychology [pdf]
Women more likely to give their phone number to a man after they've listened to music with romantic lyrics.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Danish study: 95-year-olds tested in 2010 had better cognitive functioning than 93-yr-olds tested a decade earlier. Control groups in psychology don't take full account of the placebo effect....
- Extras
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...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Establishing cognitive norms for centenarians. How do children with autism and children with Down Syndrome react to their mirror image? Heterosexual men with more cause to be concerned by 'sperm...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: What do we mean when we say a public figure has integrity? Ageing associated with a deficit in recognising hand gestures (even when other cognition remains intact). What clinical psychologists...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: The role of auditory 'mirror neurons' in human empathy. In monkeys, these cells are activated both when a certain action is performed and when the sound of that action is...