From the Santa Fe Institute press release: In nature, group decisions are often a matter of life or death. At first glance, the way certain groups of animals like minnows branch off into smaller sub-groups…
From the NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine press release: A specially designed computer program can help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans by analyzing their voices, a new study finds. Published…
From the Ohio State University press release: There are a few things that will result in poor customer reviews of a restaurant: bad service, bad food — and bad weather. A study of 32 Florida…
From the National Research University Higher School of Economics press release: Researchers from HSE University and York University have become the first to analyse the results of 82 functional neuroimaging studies on working memory mechanisms…
From the New York University press release: Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content “on the fly”–even…
From the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont press release: Most people think of optimism as a good thing – a positive outlook in challenging circumstances. But in reality, it’s a psychological…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: Bochum-based psychologists have studied how the application of the stress hormone cortisol affects exposure therapy for anxiety disorders. The researchers knew from earlier studies that extinction learning, which constitutes…
From the Genetic Engineering News press release: While sending or receiving nude electronic images may not always be associated with poorer mental health, being coerced to do so and receiving unwanted sexts was linked to…
From the Dartmouth College press release: When it comes to making moral decisions, we often think of the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Yet, why we make…
From the Lancaster University press release: Victims of bullying in secondary school have dramatically increased chances of mental health problems and unemployment in later life. New research led by Lancaster University Management School researchers reveals…