From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: Have you ever wanted to tell someone about a tough day at work or scary medical news, but felt nervous about calling a friend to share what’s…
From the Harvard Medical School press release: How do we recognize others? How do we know friend from foe, threat from reward? How does the brain compute the multitude of cues telling us that Susan…
From the University of Notre Dame press release: Online social networking has revolutionized the way people communicate and interact with one another, despite idiosyncrasies we all love to hate — think top-10 lists of the…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: How is it that we are able–without any noticeable effort–to listen to a friend talk in a crowded café or follow the melody of a violin within an…
From the University of Bristol press release: In the largest study of its kind, researchers from the University of Bristol have analysed mood indicators in text from 800 million anonymous messages posted on Twitter. These…
From the University of California – San Diego press release: Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found a genetic signature for delay discounting — the tendency to undervalue future rewards…
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) press release: Learning requires the chemical adaptation of individual synapses. Researchers have now revealed the impact of an RNA-binding protein that is intimately involved in this process on learning and…
From the Goethe University Frankfurt press release: Differences in intelligence have so far mostly been attributed to differences in specific brain regions. However, are smart people’s brains also wired differently to those of less intelligent…
From the American Association for the Advancement of Science press release: Infants who observe someone putting more effort into attaining a goal attribute more value to it, a new study finds. Past work has shed…
From the Radiological Society of North America press release: Information from brain MRIs can help identify people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and distinguish among subtypes of the condition, according to a study appearing…