Neuroscience
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 to introduce their partners to male friends; reading their partners' personal mail; and buying their partners small gifts.
Studying magic tricks to find out more about human cognition.
Prior research suggesting that sex and violence don't sell, was flawed, a new study claims, because it failed to control for other aspects of programme content.
Improving team creativity.
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The neural correlates of aesthetic appreciation: "We present here the most comprehensive analysis to date of neuroaesthetic processing ..." Why do we take such a lenient view of white-collar criminals?...
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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 -...
- Virile Artists To Blame For Schizophrenia's Prevalence?
Artists and poets who have an embryonic form of schizophrenia called ‘schizotypy’ are responsible for the illness not dying out despite the fact that people with full-blown schizophrenia are far less likely to have children than healthy people. That’s...
- Does Your Boyfriend Let You Out Of His Sight?
So your boyfriend wants to hold your hand when you’re out together – that’s probably just a sign of affection and shows that he’s proud to be with you. But then he starts showing up unexpectedly to check that you’re doing what you said you’d...
- Hot Chicks Make Men Nervous
Yes, really, they do. It's a scientific fact. As someone who has to read a lot of academic science papers, I occasionally come across studies that really should have been funded by the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious. I mean, really, it makes you...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:Studying magic tricks to find out more about human cognition.
Prior research suggesting that sex and violence don't sell, was flawed, a new study claims, because it failed to control for other aspects of programme content.
Improving team creativity.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The neural correlates of aesthetic appreciation: "We present here the most comprehensive analysis to date of neuroaesthetic processing ..." Why do we take such a lenient view of white-collar criminals?...
- 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 -...
- Virile Artists To Blame For Schizophrenia's Prevalence?
Artists and poets who have an embryonic form of schizophrenia called ‘schizotypy’ are responsible for the illness not dying out despite the fact that people with full-blown schizophrenia are far less likely to have children than healthy people. That’s...
- Does Your Boyfriend Let You Out Of His Sight?
So your boyfriend wants to hold your hand when you’re out together – that’s probably just a sign of affection and shows that he’s proud to be with you. But then he starts showing up unexpectedly to check that you’re doing what you said you’d...
- Hot Chicks Make Men Nervous
Yes, really, they do. It's a scientific fact. As someone who has to read a lot of academic science papers, I occasionally come across studies that really should have been funded by the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious. I mean, really, it makes you...