From the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus press release: A little understood region of the cerebellum plays a critical role in making split-second `go-no go’ decisions, according to a new study from researchers at…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: People are better at learning and decision-making when trying to avoid harm to others, according to new research published in JNeurosci. Humans are often motivated by self-interest. Participants in…
From the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University press release: Biomedical Engineering’s Matthew Smith and Byron Yu, along with former Ph.D. student Ben Cowley (School of Computer Science ’18), have studied the neural basis through…
From the American Marketing Association press release: Researchers from University of New South Wales, University of Southern California, and Imperial College London published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that analyzes how varying levels of…
From the New York University press release: The chances of a commercial airliner crashing are vanishingly small — and yet many people are uncomfortable flying. Vaccination for many common childhood diseases entail almost no risk…
From the University of Tsukuba press release: In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana must choose his grail “wisely,” as a poor choice spells instant death. According to a new study by Professor Masayuki…
From the University of Zurich press release: Be it booking flight tickets, buying a car or finding a new apartment, we always come up against the same question: Should I strike while the iron’s hot,…
From the California Institute of Technology press release: Most of us know that feeling of trying to retrieve a memory that does not come right away. You might be watching a romantic comedy featuring that…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Despite our better knowledge, we often make choices that aren’t good for us — and feel bad about it later. But it’s possible to strengthen our self-control by making simple…
From the University of Konstanz press release: New psychology research from the University of Konstanz reveals that stress changes the way we deal with risky information — results that shed light on how stressful events,…