Neuroscience
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 that we infer when we must have made our decision to move, rather actually being able to sense when we made the decision.
People who spend more time divorced or separated don't live as long.
Sports coaches are biased towards judging the early part of an athlete's performance - but a new study shows this bias can be eliminated with the right instructions.
The competition between learning new material and remembering old.
How 9/11 affected some of the children living nearby.
The brain basis of social conformity.
Victorian novels may have encouraged prosocial behaviour. (PDF).
Patterns of facial injury can help in the detection of partner violence against women.
- Debunking People's Belief In Free Will Takes The Intention Out Of Their Movements
Undermining a person's belief in free will alters the way their brain prepares for a voluntary movement. Davide Rigoni and his colleagues, who made the finding, aren't sure what the precise mechanism for this effect is, but they speculated that...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Don't tell Sarkozy: popular politicians are perceived to be taller. Can you see OK in there? Analysis of uterine conditions suggests that at least some fetuses have enough light to see by....
- Extras
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...
- Exposing Some Holes In Libet's Classic Free Will Study
Benjamin Libet's classic 1983 experiment purported to show that preparatory brain activity precedes our conscious decision to move - a controversial finding interpreted by some as evidence that free will is illusory. In Libet's study, participants...
- The Pursuit Of Power
Everyone knows that power is seductive, but is it power over others that we crave or power over our own actions and decisions? To find out, Marius Van Dijke and Matthijs Poppe devised a financial game in which hundreds of undergrads took turns with a...
Neuroscience
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 that we infer when we must have made our decision to move, rather actually being able to sense when we made the decision.
People who spend more time divorced or separated don't live as long.
Sports coaches are biased towards judging the early part of an athlete's performance - but a new study shows this bias can be eliminated with the right instructions.
The competition between learning new material and remembering old.
How 9/11 affected some of the children living nearby.
The brain basis of social conformity.
Victorian novels may have encouraged prosocial behaviour. (PDF).
Patterns of facial injury can help in the detection of partner violence against women.
- Debunking People's Belief In Free Will Takes The Intention Out Of Their Movements
Undermining a person's belief in free will alters the way their brain prepares for a voluntary movement. Davide Rigoni and his colleagues, who made the finding, aren't sure what the precise mechanism for this effect is, but they speculated that...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Don't tell Sarkozy: popular politicians are perceived to be taller. Can you see OK in there? Analysis of uterine conditions suggests that at least some fetuses have enough light to see by....
- Extras
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...
- Exposing Some Holes In Libet's Classic Free Will Study
Benjamin Libet's classic 1983 experiment purported to show that preparatory brain activity precedes our conscious decision to move - a controversial finding interpreted by some as evidence that free will is illusory. In Libet's study, participants...
- The Pursuit Of Power
Everyone knows that power is seductive, but is it power over others that we crave or power over our own actions and decisions? To find out, Marius Van Dijke and Matthijs Poppe devised a financial game in which hundreds of undergrads took turns with a...