Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Attractive women tend to be happier, but only in cities, not the countryside.
Near-conversational synthetic speech generated via brain-machine interface.
Review of eight meta-analyses of psychodynamic psychotherapy effectiveness: 'The perception that psychodynamic approaches lack empirical support does not accord with available scientific evidence and may reflect selective dissemination of research findings.'
The individual and situational factors that predict work place bullying. Men and victims of bullying are more likely to bully. Stressful work places with role conflict and interpersonal conflict also host more bullying.
Women process multisensory emotion expressions more efficiently than men.
Lookism in a Facebook age: 'The results indicated that both male and female subjects were more willing to initiate friendships with opposite-sex profile owners with attractive photos.'
Lusting while loathing: 'We show how being “jilted”—that is, being thwarted from obtaining a desired outcome—can concurrently increase desire to obtain the outcome, but reduce its actual attractiveness'.
Dreaming and the brain: 'It is now possible to ... address fundamental questions: how conscious experiences in sleep relate to underlying brain activity; why the dreamer is largely disconnected from the environment; and whether dreaming is more closely related to mental imagery or to perception'.
Wiley has a new cognitive science review journal.
- Witnessing School Bullying Carries Its Own Psychological Risks
We hear a lot about the harmful consequences to children of seeing their parents argue or watching violence on TV, but very little about the potential harm of witnessing school bullying. But now Ian Rivers and colleagues have published findings suggesting...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The simple act of stepping backwards seems to boost people's cognitive control, as measured by the Stroop test. More evidence for the embodiment of cognition. The objectification of women -...
- Thoughts Of Revenge Can Backfire
Who doesn't indulge in a few revenge fantasies from time to time? Unfortunately, when it comes to a dastardly colleague bullying you at work, the temptation to plot revenge, though irresistible, may well backfire. Bernardo Moreno-Jiménez and colleagues...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Psychological factors influencing how people caught up in the Kosovo war were affected by it. How people with social phobia see themselves. You probably saw this one in the news: the blind man who...
- Bullying Still Too Narrowly Defined By Some Teachers
A minority of teachers may still have an overly-narrow conception of what constitutes bullying, according to Paul Naylor and colleagues. They asked 225 teachers and 1,820 pupils (aged between 11 and 14) from 51 schools to write down what ‘they think...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:Attractive women tend to be happier, but only in cities, not the countryside.
Near-conversational synthetic speech generated via brain-machine interface.
Review of eight meta-analyses of psychodynamic psychotherapy effectiveness: 'The perception that psychodynamic approaches lack empirical support does not accord with available scientific evidence and may reflect selective dissemination of research findings.'
The individual and situational factors that predict work place bullying. Men and victims of bullying are more likely to bully. Stressful work places with role conflict and interpersonal conflict also host more bullying.
Women process multisensory emotion expressions more efficiently than men.
Lookism in a Facebook age: 'The results indicated that both male and female subjects were more willing to initiate friendships with opposite-sex profile owners with attractive photos.'
Lusting while loathing: 'We show how being “jilted”—that is, being thwarted from obtaining a desired outcome—can concurrently increase desire to obtain the outcome, but reduce its actual attractiveness'.
Dreaming and the brain: 'It is now possible to ... address fundamental questions: how conscious experiences in sleep relate to underlying brain activity; why the dreamer is largely disconnected from the environment; and whether dreaming is more closely related to mental imagery or to perception'.
Wiley has a new cognitive science review journal.
- Witnessing School Bullying Carries Its Own Psychological Risks
We hear a lot about the harmful consequences to children of seeing their parents argue or watching violence on TV, but very little about the potential harm of witnessing school bullying. But now Ian Rivers and colleagues have published findings suggesting...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The simple act of stepping backwards seems to boost people's cognitive control, as measured by the Stroop test. More evidence for the embodiment of cognition. The objectification of women -...
- Thoughts Of Revenge Can Backfire
Who doesn't indulge in a few revenge fantasies from time to time? Unfortunately, when it comes to a dastardly colleague bullying you at work, the temptation to plot revenge, though irresistible, may well backfire. Bernardo Moreno-Jiménez and colleagues...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Psychological factors influencing how people caught up in the Kosovo war were affected by it. How people with social phobia see themselves. You probably saw this one in the news: the blind man who...
- Bullying Still Too Narrowly Defined By Some Teachers
A minority of teachers may still have an overly-narrow conception of what constitutes bullying, according to Paul Naylor and colleagues. They asked 225 teachers and 1,820 pupils (aged between 11 and 14) from 51 schools to write down what ‘they think...