Category: Behaviour

Eleven minutes of mindfulness training helps drinkers cut back

From the University College London press release: Brief training in mindfulness strategies could help heavy drinkers start to cut back on alcohol consumption, finds a new UCL study. After an 11-minute… Read more »

When hoping to be seen as powerful, consumers prefer wider faces on watches, cars

From the University of Kansas press release: People are typically averse to wider human faces because they elicit fears of being dominated. However, consumers might like wider faces on some products… Read more »

Like adults, children show bias in attributing mental states to others

From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Young children are more likely to attribute mental states to characters that belong to the same group as them relative to characters that… Read more »

Kids learn moral lessons more effectively from stories with humans than human-like animals

From the University of Toronto press release: A study by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto found that four to six-year-olds… Read more »