The healthiest eaters are the most culturally fit
From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology media release: How to be a healthy eater depends on culture. A recent study shows that in the U.S. and Japan, people who fit better with their…
Modeling shifting beliefs in a complex social environment
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science media release: A new model is allowing scientists to explore how changing an individual’s certainty in the belief on the truth of one statement leads to changes…
Peer victimization in schools: Two studies explore types, repercussions
From the Society for Research in Child Development media release: Researchers estimate that as many as 75% of children and adolescents report experiencing some sort of peer victimization, with 10 to 15% experiencing more severe and…
Link between walk, aggression discovered
From the University of Portsmouth media release: The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new exploratory study from the University of Portsmouth has found. The researchers from the Department of…
Gastrointestinal disorders involve both brain-to-gut and gut-to-brain pathways
From the Wiley media release: New research indicates that in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or indigestion, there is a distinct brain-to-gut pathway, where psychological symptoms begin first, and separately a distinct gut-to-brain pathway,…
Witnesses can catch criminals by smell: Human nose-witnesses identify criminals in a lineup of body odor
From the Frontiers media release: Move over sniffer dogs, people who witnessed a crime are able to identify criminals by their smell. Police lineups normally rely on sight, but nose-witnesses can be just as reliable as…
Suspense in the movie theater air
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft media release: With some movies, suspense is quite literally in the air. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, analysed the air in movie…
Does the moon affect our mood or actions?
From the Frontiers media release: Always surrounded by an aura of mystery, the moon and its possible influence over human behavior has been object of ancestral fascination and mythical speculation for centuries. While the full moon…
Emotions in the age of Botox
From the Sissa Medialab media release: Botulin injections in the facial muscles, which relax expression lines and make one’s skin appear younger as a result of a mild paralysis, have another, not easily predictable effect: they…
‘Virtual partner’ elicits emotional responses from a human partner in real-time
From the Florida Atlantic University media release: Can machines think? That’s what renowned mathematician Alan Turing sought to understand back in the 1950s when he created an imitation game to find out if a human interrogator…