From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville press release: At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Michael Phelps was caught on camera glaring as he prepared for the men’s 200-meter butterfly final. The look, popularly known as…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: People often ask University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth what predicts success. It’s an understandable question, given the pioneering work Duckworth has done in the area of grit,…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Experts don’t always agree with one another when making predictions or diagnoses. So how can we find out which expert in a group makes the best and most accurate decisions?…
From the University of Rochester press release: Language research has documented that people tend to draw inferences about speakers based on how they talk. These often implicit inferences can occur in the blink of an…
From the Michigan State University press release: Why do some people learn music more quickly than others? Intelligence could play a role, according to a Michigan State University study that investigated the early stages of…
From the Columbia University Irving Medical Center press release: Research has shown that adults with age-related hearing loss have higher rates of cognitive decline. Now, a study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release: How well eight-year-olds score on a test of thinking skills may be a predictor of how they will perform on tests of thinking and memory skills when…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie was released with the controversial voice fragment, “Math class is hard.” While the toy’s release met with public backlash, this underlying assumption persists,…
From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: Financial transactions between people who speak different native languages are more common than ever with more than one in five Americans speaking a language other than English…
From the University of British Columbia press release: New research published today in JAMA Psychiatry shows for the first time that patients with mood and anxiety disorders share the same abnormalities in regions of the brain involved…