From the Cornell University press release: Struggling to finish that report for your boss? One way to increase your interest in a task is to add immediate rewards, rather than wait until the end to…
From the Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan press release: Physicians may want to dig a little deeper into their closets, or grab their white coats on the way out of the operating room, if…
From the University at Buffalo press release: When narcissistic individuals are able to imagine themselves in a victim’s situation, they are more likely to donate to charity, according to new research from the University at…
From the University of Illinois at Chicago press release: Symptoms associated with borderline personality disorder — a severe and chronic mood disorder characterized by an inability to manage strong emotions — tend to worsen just…
From the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University press release: Just a little longer. It’s a common experience: hanging on in the hopes that our patience will pay off in the end.…
From the Yale University press release: Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience — the sense of connection to something greater than oneself. Activity in the parietal cortex, an area…
From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine press release: The key to predicting how someone is affected by sleep loss may be found in microRNAs (miRNAs), according to a new study from researchers at…
From the Institute of Science and Technology Austria press release: Why do people make anonymous donations, and why does the public perceive this as admirable? Why do we downplay our interest in a potential partner,…
From the University of Zurich press release: Ostracism or social exclusion within a group serves to discipline disagreeable, awkward, or free-loading members and thus promote cooperation — at least this was the assumption of previous…
From the University of British Columbia press release: A new study by the University of British Columbia shows that teachers don’t have to test everything they want their students to remember — as long as…