Neuroscience
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 could navigate his way through an obstacle-strewn corridor. Not because of a sixth sense, as the media described it, but because much visual processing is subcortical and non-conscious, thus leaving some blind people with some intact visual abilities.
A review of research into emotion regulation.
Go and live there a while and you'll soon pick up the language, or so they say. But it doesn't work for everyone.
Can personality be changed?
Is crying beneficial?
Support for the UK government's policy of increasing patient choice.
Facial scars can increase a man's attractiveness to women.
A meta-analysis looking at the combined results of lots of research into the effectiveness of internet and computer-based cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Cognitive therapy for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders not taking antipsychotic drugs: a single-blind randomised controlled trial [expert reactions here]. Towards a Taxonomy of...
- 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...
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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 -...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Neurons identified that respond to scratching only when itchy. The psychophysics of brightness. People with autism and associated conditions may show deficits in emotion and face processing but...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle prefer bigger pupils - the kind found in eyes, not schools. Belief in an essentialist ("ethnic") definition of nationality is linked with negative...
Neuroscience
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 could navigate his way through an obstacle-strewn corridor. Not because of a sixth sense, as the media described it, but because much visual processing is subcortical and non-conscious, thus leaving some blind people with some intact visual abilities.
A review of research into emotion regulation.
Go and live there a while and you'll soon pick up the language, or so they say. But it doesn't work for everyone.
Can personality be changed?
Is crying beneficial?
Support for the UK government's policy of increasing patient choice.
Facial scars can increase a man's attractiveness to women.
A meta-analysis looking at the combined results of lots of research into the effectiveness of internet and computer-based cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Cognitive therapy for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders not taking antipsychotic drugs: a single-blind randomised controlled trial [expert reactions here]. Towards a Taxonomy of...
- 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 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 -...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Neurons identified that respond to scratching only when itchy. The psychophysics of brightness. People with autism and associated conditions may show deficits in emotion and face processing but...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle prefer bigger pupils - the kind found in eyes, not schools. Belief in an essentialist ("ethnic") definition of nationality is linked with negative...