From the University of Chicago press release via EurekAlert!: Although holiday sales and events try to drive as many customers to retail stores as possible, a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows…
From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health press release: Individuals suffering from mood and anxiety disorders such as bipolar, panic disorder and major depressive disorder may be more likely to abuse opioids, according…
From the Leiden University press release via ScienceDirect: Is attention in women different from attention in men? Leiden researchers and their colleagues in Toronto investigated the effects of the hormone estrogen on spontaneous attention. They…
From the CNR-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche press release via AlphaGalileo: Everybody knows that yawning is contagious. When a person yawns, other people can respond by yawning. What wasn’t known is that“yawn transmission” is more frequent,…
From the Concordia University press release: First dates, job interviews or Christmas cocktail parties can be stressors for some people. Such social rites of passage have no doubt made shy or introverted individuals wish for…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release: Imagine waking up and being unable to see or recognize anything on the left side of your body. This condition, called hemispatial neglect, is common after a…
From the Springer Select press release: Life without cigarettes is not all doom and gloom. In fact, successful quitters are more satisfied with their lives and feel healthier, both one year and three years afterwards,…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Contrary to what many psychological scientists think, people do not all have the same set of biologically “basic” emotions, and those emotions are not automatically expressed on…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals via EurekAlert!: Compared to what they would pay themselves, most consumers overestimate what others are willing to pay for products, according to a new study in the Journal…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, can boost donations and help drum up volunteers, according to a new study in the Journal of…