From the Virginia Commonwealth University press release: Children of divorced parents are more likely to get divorced when compared to those who grew up in two-parent families — and genetic factors are the primary explanation, according…
From the Universität Basel press release: For some medical complaints, open-label placebos work just as well as deceptive ones. As psychologists from the University of Basel and Harvard Medical School report in the journal Pain, the accompanying…
From the University of Bonn press release: Whether or not we consciously perceive the stimuli projected onto our retina is decided in our brain. A recent study by the University of Bonn shows how some…
From the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati press release: A new study demonstrated that people of normal weight tend to associate natural foods such as apples with their sensory characteristics. On the other hand, processed…
From the Cell Press press release: When people see an image of a person they recognize — the famous tennis player Roger Federer or actress Halle Berry, for instance — particular cells light up in…
From the University of Bristol press release: Photos of the same person can look substantially different. For example, your passport photo may look quite different from your driving licence, or your face in holiday photos. In…
From the Ohio State University press release: People who tend to trust their intuition or to believe that the facts they hear are politically biased are more likely to stand behind inaccurate beliefs, a new study…
From the University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine press release: How does a driver’s brain realize that a stop sign is behind a bush when only a red edge is showing? Or how can a monkey…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: The human eye can perceive millions of different colors, but the number of categories human languages use to group those colors is much smaller. Some languages use as…
From the University of Vienna press release: Music is a worldwide phenomenon and part of every culture, but the origin of music remains a longstanding puzzle. Why do people invest so much energy, time and…