From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: When you expect a really bad experience to happen and then it doesn’t, it’s a distinctly positive feeling. A new study of fear extinction training in mice…
From the Harvard Kennedy School press release: In today’s world, most workers are highly specialized, but this specialization can come at a cost — especially for those on the wrong team. New research by Harvard’s…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release: Interoception is the awareness of our physiological states; it’s how animals and humans know they’re hungry or thirsty, and how they know when they’ve had enough…
From the Queen Mary University of London press release: The future potential of early stage startups can be assessed by their existing professional relationships, research led by a team at Queen Mary University of London…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Children are more likely to control their immediate impulses when they and a peer rely on each other to get a reward than when they’re left to…
From the University of California – San Diego press release: Employing advanced technologies that allow whole brain imaging at single-cell resolution, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that in an…
From the University of California – Berkeley press release: The “Star-Spangled Banner” stirs pride. Ed Sheeran’s “The Shape of You” sparks joy. And “ooh là là!” best sums up the seductive power of George Michael’s…
From the City University London press release: Members of collective leadership groups can maintain cohesion and act decisively when faced with a crisis, in spite of lacking the formal authority to do so, according to…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release: Storing and retrieving memories is among the most important tasks our intricate brains must perform, yet how that happens at a molecular level remains incompletely understood. A new…
From the Harvard Kennedy School press release: What drives a person to smoke cigarettes — and keeps one out of six U.S. adults addicted to tobacco use, at a cost of 480,000 premature deaths each…