From the New York University press release: Being under stress diminishes our abilities to predict new dangers that we face, a team of psychology researchers finds. Its work runs counter to the conventional view that stress…
From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release: It is often claimed that people who are bilingual are better than monolinguals at learning languages. Now, the first study to examine bilingual and monolingual brains as they…
From the Washington University School of Medicine press release: Scientists drilling down to the molecular roots of Alzheimer’s disease have encountered a good news/bad news scenario. A major player is a gene called TREM2, mutations of…
From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: Imagine a parent who is shopping and has a few moments to spare before heading home. If the parent has both a son and daughter but time to…
From the Universität Tübingen press release: Homework may have a positive influence on students’ conscientiousness. As results of a study conducted by University of Tübingen researchers suggest, students who do more homework than their peers show…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People rated images containing positive content as fading more smoothly compared with neutral and negative images, even when they faded at the same rate, according to findings published…
From the IOS Press press release: Video games are quickly becoming a hot topic in cognitive training. Many see them as a potential tool to help patients improve their performance and memory, yet little is known…
From the Springer press release: Although both men and women gossip, women may be more likely to use gossiping and rumour-mongering as tactics to badmouth a potential rival who is competing for a man’s attention.…
From the University of Exeter press release: Women can be just as risk-taking as men — or even more so — when the conventional macho measures of daring — such as betting vast sums on a…
From the University of Utah press release: Many of the infotainment features in most 2017 vehicles are so distracting they should not be enabled while a vehicle is in motion, according to a new study by…