From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: A new study suggests that one night of sleep deprivation leads to an increase in men’s perceptions of both women’s interest in and intent…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release via HealthCanal: Overprecision — excessive confidence in the accuracy of our beliefs — can have profound consequences, inflating investors’ valuation of their investments, leading physicians to gravitate…
From the Duke University press release via ScienceDaily: Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player’s hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to…
From the Cornell University press release via EurekAlert!: College-aged women judge promiscuous female peers — defined by bedding 20 sexual partners by their early 20s — more negatively than more chaste women and view them…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa perceive their bodies as being larger than they are and this disturbed body representation affects their movements, according to research…
From the American Institute of Physics press release via EurekAlert!: During command and control operations, military personnel are frequently exposed to extreme auditory overload – essentially bombarded by multiple messages coming from radio networks, loudspeakers,…
From the Queen Mary, University of London press release via EurekAlert!: Names can provide a clue to a person’s background, and with certain names come certain preconceptions. But could a parent’s choice of name for…
From the Columbia Business School press release via EurekAlert!: With so much on the line for job seekers in this difficult economic climate, a lot of new hires might be wondering how — or whether…
From the Ohio State University press release by Jeff Grabmeier via HealthCanal: People will lie about their sexual behavior to match cultural expectations about how men or women should act – even though they wouldn’t…
From the University of Glasgow press release via MedicalXpress: The human brain is able to identify individuals’ voices by comparing them against an internal ‘average voice’ prototype, according to neuroscientists. A study carried out by…