Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
The Aha! Moment: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight.
Understanding herding in humans.
Heterosexuals value most highly those aspects of themselves that are most appealing to the opposite sex - for women, this is physical appearance, for men it is status.
Do many of psychology's laws apply only to (North) Americans?
When is the best time in an interview for police to reveal the evidence they have to a crime suspect?
Is home ownership good for you?
What's love got to do with it? Why some marriages succeed and others fail.
The evolution of the truth machine.
Measuring people intensively.
Tall men are less worried about their partners running off with someone else (pdf).
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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: A psychopath, a narcissist & a Machiavellian enter a room, who was perceived more favourably? What is the most interesting part of the brain? (open access) "Spending time on others increases...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Snappy 'in brief' journal articles are becoming more popular in psychology - how often are they cited compared with standard length articles? Just what is it about the view of city skylines...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Children's understanding of transfer of ownership. Using the implicit association test to change, rather than simply measure, people's attitudes. Baby-faced politicians deemed to be less...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:Men with more attractive girlfriends or wives are more likely to engage in so-called "mate retention behaviors" – these are behaviors designed to thwart a woman’s infidelity and include refusing...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:The Aha! Moment: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight.
Understanding herding in humans.
Heterosexuals value most highly those aspects of themselves that are most appealing to the opposite sex - for women, this is physical appearance, for men it is status.
Do many of psychology's laws apply only to (North) Americans?
When is the best time in an interview for police to reveal the evidence they have to a crime suspect?
Is home ownership good for you?
What's love got to do with it? Why some marriages succeed and others fail.
The evolution of the truth machine.
Measuring people intensively.
Tall men are less worried about their partners running off with someone else (pdf).
- 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: A psychopath, a narcissist & a Machiavellian enter a room, who was perceived more favourably? What is the most interesting part of the brain? (open access) "Spending time on others increases...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Snappy 'in brief' journal articles are becoming more popular in psychology - how often are they cited compared with standard length articles? Just what is it about the view of city skylines...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Children's understanding of transfer of ownership. Using the implicit association test to change, rather than simply measure, people's attitudes. Baby-faced politicians deemed to be less...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:Men with more attractive girlfriends or wives are more likely to engage in so-called "mate retention behaviors" – these are behaviors designed to thwart a woman’s infidelity and include refusing...