From the SUNY Buffalo press release via MedicalXpress: The well-known “door-in-the-face” (DITF) persuasion strategy predicts greater compliance with a target request if it is preceded by a larger and more… Read more »
From the University of Rochester press release via EurekAlert!: Cognitive scientists have good news for linguistic purists terrified about the corruption of their mother tongue. Using an artificial language in… Read more »
From the Rice University press release via ScienceDaily: Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a new study from Rice University. Emoticons… Read more »
From the University of Miami press release via EurekAlert!: Approximately 19 percent of children with a sibling diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will develop Autism due to shared genetic… Read more »
From the Purdue University press release by Amy Patterson Neubert via ScienceDaily: The world continues to be a noisy place, and Purdue University researchers have found that all that background… Read more »
From the University of Missouri press release via HealthCanal: Separated and divorced couples are increasingly using emails, texting and social media to communicate with their ex-partners about their children. However,… Read more »
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists at UCLA and the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, have unraveled how our brain cells encode the pronunciation of individual vowels in… Read more »
From the Texas Advanced Computing Center press release by Monica Kortsha via EurekAlert!: Singing mice (scotinomys teguina) are not your average lab rats. Their fur is tawny brown instead of… Read more »
From the CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange) press release via AlphaGalileo: In the cognitive sciences, the capacity to interpret the intentions of others is called “Theory of Mind” (ToM). This faculty… Read more »
From the University of Houston press release: A new University of Houston (UH) experiment takes an unconventional look at the treatment for domestic violence, otherwise known as intimate partner violence… Read more »
