From the Association for Psychological Science press release: It’s normal to not always act on your sense of compassion—for example, by walking past a beggar on the street without giving them any money. Maybe you…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release: Let’s say you’ve got to book a flight, choose a hotel, and rent a car. Does it matter which thing you shop for first? A new…
From the Vanderbilt University press release via Newswise: Shyness may be the result of deficits in two areas of the brain, new research from Vanderbilt University finds. Extremely shy or inhibited individuals are typically slow…
From the Washington University in St.Louis press release: Smoking, the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, continues to disproportionately impact lower income members of racial and ethnic minority groups. In a new…
From the University of Alberta press release via EurekAlert!: Sweating in the gym, surrounded by others, pounding to the beat in group exercise class has become the norm for many women. But when it comes…
From the University of Miami press release via EurekAlert!: Convincing speeches are central to campaigning for elected office, but do our voices affect how we select our leaders? A newly-published paper in Proceedings of the…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Packaging an expensive item with a cheap one seems like a no-brainer. But according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research,…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Is honesty the best policy? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers who lie during a service encounter are…
From the UCLA press release: For every individual who’s a victim of Alzheimer’s — some 5.4 million persons in the United States alone — there’s a related victim: the caregiver. Spouse, son, daughter, other relative or…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: With the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament set to begin, college basketball fans around the United States are in the throes of March Madness. Anyone who has…