From the PLOS press release: Hyperlinks slow down reading speed only when the linked word is unfamiliar, an effect that is independent of link color, according to new research published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by…
From the SAGE press release: Remember that magical moment when you first locked eyes with your partner and felt an instant connection? Chances are they were looking at your mouth. Or your ear. Yes, eye…
From the University of Waterloo press release: Spending time with people who are not preoccupied with their bodies can improve your own eating habits and body image, according to researchers from the University of Waterloo.…
From the Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona press release: A paper published by Cristina Baus and Albert Costa, UPF researchers at the Center for Cognition and Brain (CBC), in collaboration with researchers from the Université…
From the University of East Anglia press release: People are more likely to recover from shoulder pain if they have the confidence to carry on doing most things, despite their pain – according to new…
From the Yale University press release: Gender stereotypes can hurt children — quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based on the observation of identical reactions to a finger-stick,…
From the Bielefeld University press release: In science, the “Mona Lisa Effect” refers to the impression that the eyes of the person portrayed in an image seem to follow the viewer as they move in…
From the University of California – Santa Cruz press release: Every time we look at a face, we take in a flood of information effortlessly: age, gender, race, expression, the direction of our subject’s gaze,…
From the George Washington University press release: A stop sign at an intersection appears to be larger than a parked car across the street. Is our brain playing tricks on us? Researchers at the George…
From the University of Toronto press release: When it comes to self-assessment, new U of T research suggests that maybe we do have a pretty good handle on our own personalities after all. “It’s widely…