From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Each day brings with it a host of decisions to be made, and each person approaches those decisions differently. A new… Read more »
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Young adults with thinner cortex in particular brain regions are more impulsive during a decision-making task than teens with thicker cortex, according to… Read more »
From the New York University press release: Our trust in strangers is dependent on their resemblance to others we’ve previously known, finds a new study by a team of psychology… Read more »
From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: It is wartime. You and your fellow refugees are hiding from enemy soldiers, when a baby begins to cry. You… Read more »
From the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam press release: The best decisions are made on the basis of the average of various estimates: this has been confirmed by the research of Dennie… Read more »
From the University of Cincinnati press release: For some young people, dealing with life stressors like exposure to violence and family disruption often means turning to negative, risky behaviors —… Read more »
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: Babies as young as 10 months can assess how much someone values a particular goal by observing how hard they are willing… Read more »
From the Emory Health Sciences press release: A drug that stimulates neuron pruning can nudge mice away from habit-driven behaviors when combined with retraining, neuroscientists have found. The results were… Read more »
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: Making decisions is not always easy, especially when choosing between two options that have both positive and negative elements, such as deciding… Read more »
From the Frontiers press release: Research published today in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience shows that challenging situations make it harder to understand where you are and what’s happening around you. A team… Read more »
