From the Association for Psychological Science press release: So many acts in our daily lives – refusing that second slice of cake, walking past the store with the latest gadgets, working on your tax forms…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Every year, nervous high school juniors and seniors, clutching #2 pencils and armed with hours of test preparation, sit down and take the SAT. At their most…
From the Temple University press release via EurekAlert!: With an 8.1 percent August unemployment rate and 12.5 million Americans out of work, a new Temple University study examines a neglected area of research: how the…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release via EurekAlert!: People who bear the genetic mutation for Huntington’s disease learn faster than healthy people. The more pronounced the mutation was, the more quickly they learned. This is…
From the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto press release: Tax collectors and insurance agencies trying to boost honest reporting could improve compliance simply by asking people to sign their forms at…
From the UCSF press release via EurekAlert!: Mental health professionals, who often are tasked with evaluating and managing the risk of violence by their patients, may benefit from a simple tool to more accurately make…
From the Georgia Health Sciences University press release via EurekAlert!: A 10-week program that fits easily into the high school curriculum could give students a lifetime of less anger and lower blood pressure, researchers report.…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release via EurekAlert!: How does one’s experience of an event get translated into a memory that can be accessed months, even years later? A team led by University of…
From the Elsevier Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public health. A new study of noise pollution…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release via Newswise: Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case…