From the Stellenbosch University press release: Digital technologies, especially smartphones, have become such an integral part of our lives that it is difficult to picture life without them. Today, people spend over three hours on…
From the Wiley press release: In a study of 588 patients who attended an outpatient headache clinic, more frequent migraines were experienced by participants with symptoms of anxiety and depression. In the Headache study, poor sleep quality…
From the University of Utah press release: It’s a lesson in scholastic humility: You waltz into an exam, confident that you’ve got a good enough grip on the class material to swing an 80 percent…
From the University of Delaware press release: When customers walk down aisles of grocery stores, they are inundated with labels such as organic, fair-trade and cage free, just to name a few. Labels such as these…
From the University of Waterloo press release: Novice gamblers who watched a short video about how slot machines disguise losses as wins have a better chance of avoiding gambling problems, according to new research. Slot machines…
From the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience – KNAW press release: Half a century of research on how the brain learns to integrate visual inputs from the two eyes has provided important insights in critical period regulation,…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: When making important purchase decisions, consumers often consult multiple sources of information. A new study from The University of Texas at Dallas examines how consumers allocated their…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: Presumably, in industrialized countries, especially in middle Europe, most people have never come across a poisonous spider or snake in the wild. In…
From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology press release: When it comes to financial investments, hedge fund managers higher in “dark triad” personality traits — psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism — perform more poorly than their…
From the University of California – Davis press release: It’s perhaps one of the most common emotions to feel in a relationship, but one that’s virtually untouched when it comes to studying relationships in monogamous…