From the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. press release via HealthCanal: More than 800 million people worldwide use the social networking site Facebook, and 93% of college students have an active Facebook account, according to a…
From the UC Berkeley press release via EurekAlert!: Whether we’re listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new…
From the University of Notre Dame press release via EurekAlert!: Women who engage in “fat talk” — the self-disparaging remarks girls and women make in relation to eating, exercise or their bodies — are less…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Why do so many sports players and athletes choose to wear the color red when they compete? A new study to be published in Psychological Science, a…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Survey results may be biased in multilingual research if consumers are unfamiliar with translated terms, according to a new study in the Journal of…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Consumers believe a product is more effective when images of the product and its desired outcome are placed closer together in advertisements, according to…
From the UBC press release via HealthCanal: A new UBC study from the Sauder School of Business reveals that experiencing unfair treatment at work can sharpen the taste buds, providing evidence that stress has a…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release via HealthCanal: Not surprisingly, playing the random “He loves me, he loves me not” game is not the best way to determine if the object of your affection…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release via HealthCanal: People are worse at predicting whether a sports team will win, lose, or tie when they bet on the final score than when they bet…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Deep male voices and high-pitched female voices are perceived as more attractive because listeners gauge the speaker’s body size from the frequency of their voice,…