Study debunks importance of eye contact
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…
Study suggests body image is impacted by people around one
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.…
Study suggests listeners get an idea of the personality of the speaker through his voice
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…
Study suggests positive self belief key to recovery from shoulder pain
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…
Study finds that adults take girls’ pain less seriously
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,…
Study debunks “Mona Lisa” effect
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…
Study suggests a tilt of the head facilitates social engagement
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,…
Study suggests human brain allocates attention based on known size of objects
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…
Study suggests self-perception and reality seem to line-up when it comes to judging our own personality
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…
Study looks at what makes words funny
From the University of Alberta press release: Upchuck, bubby, boff, wriggly, yaps, giggle, cooch, guffaw, puffball, and jiggly: the top 10 funniest words in the English language, according to a new study by University of…