From the University of Miami press release via EurekAlert!: Televised political advertising takes up a large portion of campaigns budgets. Much of it is spent on negative political ads. But do these negative ads work?…
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 objectionable request. It has been…
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 a carefully controlled laboratory experiment,…
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 are graphic symbols that use…
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 and environmental vulnerabilities, according to…
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 chatter causes the ears of…
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, when ex-spouses use that technology…
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 speech. Published in the Aug.…
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 the common white albino strain;…
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 is involved in the understanding…