From the Aalto University press release via Physorg: The way buyers perceive price and the emotions their perceptions evoke affect purchase decisions more than the exact price. This is evident from the doctoral dissertation written…
From the University of Virginia press release via ScienceDaily: Vision may be less important to “seeing” than is the brain’s ability to process points of light into complex images, according to a new study of…
From the UC Davis Health System press release via ScienceDaily: Uncontrolled high blood pressure damages the brain’s structure and function as early as young middle-age, and even the brains of middle-aged people who clinically would…
From the University of Chicago press release by William Harms via ScienceDaily: Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the…
From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via ScienceDaily: Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Children as young as five are generous when others are aware of their actions, but antisocial when sharing with a recipient who can’t see them,…
From the Taylor & Francis press release via AlphaGalileo: The latest research on the impact of cyberbullying on children has just been collected in a special double issue of the journal Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties,…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: In many areas of our everyday lives, goals are the norm. That not all of them are effective, however, is something which anyone who has seen their New Year resolutions…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: New research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, offers insight into the neural underpinnings of musical timbre. Mounya Elhilali, of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues have…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via ScienceDaily: Partisans beware! Some of your most cherished political attitudes may be malleable! Researchers report that simply answering three “why” questions on an innocuous topic…