From the University of Sydney press release: When we pass through an art gallery, what determines our idea of beauty? A University of Sydney study of how people rate the aesthetics of each artwork shows…
From the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University press release: Chronic stress can inflame our brain, destroy the connections between our neurons and result in depression, scientists say. Now they are working to better…
From the American Psychological Association press release: How quickly you spend your savings in retirement may have as much or more to do with your personality than whether you have a lot of debt or…
From the Hiroshima University press release: In a recent study published in PLOS One researchers from Hiroshima University and Nagoya Institute of Technology found that if you hold your car steering wheel at certain angles (1, 4,…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Experts don’t always agree with one another when making predictions or diagnoses. So how can we find out which expert in a group makes the best and most accurate decisions?…
From the University of Rochester press release: Language research has documented that people tend to draw inferences about speakers based on how they talk. These often implicit inferences can occur in the blink of an…
From the University of California – San Francisco press release: Neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first…
From the Iowa State University press release: Advertising budgets and strategies used by beer companies appear to influence underage drinking, according to new research from Iowa State University. The findings show that the amount of…
From the University of Technology Sydney press release: Managers and those who evaluate the performance of others, whether in the workplace or on the sporting field, are likely to be often confusing luck with skill,…
From the PLOS press release: A two-step task commonly used to study people’s decision-making behaviors does not appear to be effective for training people to rely more on goal-oriented behaviors and less on habitual behaviors.…