From the PLOS press release: A two-step task commonly used to study people’s decision-making behaviors does not appear to be effective for training people to rely more on goal-oriented behaviors and less on habitual behaviors.…
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 NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Specialized brain activation “replays” the possible routes that rats can take as they navigate a space, helping them keep track of the paths they’ve already taken…
From the University of Technology Sydney press release: You’re standing in the bread aisle, faced with an array of loaves with a variety of claims. There’s low GI, multigrain, added vitamins, unbleached, gluten free… Which…
From the University of British Columbia press release: Biological siblings of people with gambling disorder also display markers of increased impulsivity and risk-taking, according to a new UBC psychology study. The findings, published today in Neuropsychopharmacology,…
From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: Impulsive shopping can be a costly vice for people who are eager to escape emotional pain, but researchers have now discovered a strategy for increasing self-control in…
From the Georgia State University press release: When it comes to being willing to explore more efficient options to solving a problem, monkeys exhibit more cognitive flexibility than humans, according to a study by Georgia…
From the Ohio State University press release: Researchers have long known that childhood trauma is linked to poorer health for women at midlife. A new study shows one important reason why. The national study of…
From the University of Dundee press release: We all know that food shopping when hungry is a bad idea but new research from the University of Dundee suggests that people might want to avoid making…
From the Cell Press press release: You’d expect excessive athletic training to make the body tired, but can it make the brain tired too? A new study reported in the journal Current Biology on September 26 suggests…