Neuroscience
Other new studies that caught my eye:
Who do we gossip about and who do we gossip with?
Psychological effects of polar expeditions.
Biological basis of memory repression.
The advantage of combining MEG and EEG.
Playfulness in young adults. Ah sweet.
Family members share manipulation tactics. Not so nice.
- Prolific Gossipers Are Disliked And Seen As Weak
Gossip might be the social glue that binds us, but prolific proponents of tittle-tattle should beware - gossipers are perceived not just as unlikeable but also as lacking social influence. Sally Farley made her finding after asking 128 participants (mostly...
- How Our Visual System Is Guided By Gossip Radar
The kind of negative tittle-tattle that appears daily in the tabloids seems to bear little merit. But experts believe that historically, paying attention to such gossip played an important role in our survival chances, such that today negative hearsay...
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: The biological basis of business (Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes). The neural basis of timing and anticipatory behaviours (European Journal of Neuroscience). Psychological...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that I didn't get a chance to report on in full: The personality profile of people who get bullied at work. Adults with autism are better than healthy controls at dividing their attention. The biological basis of the nocebo...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Visuocognition
The Cambridge Car Memory Test: A task matched in format to the Cambridge Face Memory Test, with norms, reliability, sex differences, dissociations from face memory, and expertise effects Behav Res Methods. 2011 Oct 20; Dennett HW, McKone E, Tavashmi R,...
Neuroscience
Extras
Other new studies that caught my eye:Who do we gossip about and who do we gossip with?
Psychological effects of polar expeditions.
Biological basis of memory repression.
The advantage of combining MEG and EEG.
Playfulness in young adults. Ah sweet.
Family members share manipulation tactics. Not so nice.
- Prolific Gossipers Are Disliked And Seen As Weak
Gossip might be the social glue that binds us, but prolific proponents of tittle-tattle should beware - gossipers are perceived not just as unlikeable but also as lacking social influence. Sally Farley made her finding after asking 128 participants (mostly...
- How Our Visual System Is Guided By Gossip Radar
The kind of negative tittle-tattle that appears daily in the tabloids seems to bear little merit. But experts believe that historically, paying attention to such gossip played an important role in our survival chances, such that today negative hearsay...
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: The biological basis of business (Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes). The neural basis of timing and anticipatory behaviours (European Journal of Neuroscience). Psychological...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that I didn't get a chance to report on in full: The personality profile of people who get bullied at work. Adults with autism are better than healthy controls at dividing their attention. The biological basis of the nocebo...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Visuocognition
The Cambridge Car Memory Test: A task matched in format to the Cambridge Face Memory Test, with norms, reliability, sex differences, dissociations from face memory, and expertise effects Behav Res Methods. 2011 Oct 20; Dennett HW, McKone E, Tavashmi R,...