Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Non-patients who hear voices.
A light touch on the thigh boosts the handstand balance of gymnasts.
American participants assign positive words and negative words to themselves in a 60:40 positively biased split. When rating older people, however, the bias is reversed.
Another US study: men today expect to do their fair share of household chores; women expect to have to do more than their fair share.
Mozart effect–Shmozart effect: A meta-analysis (clue: the effect doesn't exist).
Women's superiority at recognising facial expressions could be because they spend more time looking at your eyes.
Before Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky there was Sidney Siegel.
Ravens console each other when distressed.
Do men and women differ in their cognitive recovery from brain injury? Apart from memory functioning - more preserved in women - the answer is no.
Children with autism get confused by shadows.
How consumers interact with the Harry Potter brand phenomenon.
Disordered attachment could have its advantages.
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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: 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,...
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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: The social power of brands. Link observed between rates of eye blinking and the personality dimension of psychoticism. Another follow-up on Libet's classic free will study. This one suggests...
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Eye-catching articles that didn't make the final cut: What's the point of an elaborate recruitment process if employers are biased by what they already know about candidates? A new study looks at whether recruiters are able to ignore this preliminary...
Neuroscience
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Non-patients who hear voices.
A light touch on the thigh boosts the handstand balance of gymnasts.
American participants assign positive words and negative words to themselves in a 60:40 positively biased split. When rating older people, however, the bias is reversed.
Another US study: men today expect to do their fair share of household chores; women expect to have to do more than their fair share.
Mozart effect–Shmozart effect: A meta-analysis (clue: the effect doesn't exist).
Women's superiority at recognising facial expressions could be because they spend more time looking at your eyes.
Before Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky there was Sidney Siegel.
Ravens console each other when distressed.
Do men and women differ in their cognitive recovery from brain injury? Apart from memory functioning - more preserved in women - the answer is no.
Children with autism get confused by shadows.
How consumers interact with the Harry Potter brand phenomenon.
Disordered attachment could have its advantages.
- 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: 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 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: The social power of brands. Link observed between rates of eye blinking and the personality dimension of psychoticism. Another follow-up on Libet's classic free will study. This one suggests...
- Extras
Eye-catching articles that didn't make the final cut: What's the point of an elaborate recruitment process if employers are biased by what they already know about candidates? A new study looks at whether recruiters are able to ignore this preliminary...