From the Society for Research in Child Development press release: Young children are more likely to behave aggressively if they think other children want to hurt them — for example, when they interpret accidental bumps…
From the City University London press release: The way we process sight and sound are curiously out of sync by different amounts for different people and tasks, according to a new study from City, University…
From the University of Plymouth press release: Consumers who perceive the benefits of large sums of money promised in mass marketing scams (MMS) are more likely to discount the risks and fall prey to perpetrators,…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Misperception of speech results from a weak representation of the difference between what we expect to hear and what is actually said, according to a human neuroimaging study…
From the American Psychological Association press release: What makes someone go from simply being hungry to full-on “hangry“? More than just a simple drop in blood sugar, this combination of hunger and anger may be…
From the Purdue University press release: Purdue University researchers think the gap between a psychologists’ diagnosis and a patient’s self-evaluation might not be as extreme as previously perceived when both are using the same evaluation…
From the Kumamoto University press release: Peripersonal space (PPS) is an area created by the brain immediately around one’s own body parts that is used when interacting with people and objects. Recently, researchers have shown…
From the University of Western Ontario press release: Researchers at Western University have shown that our brains are pre-wired to perceive wrinkles around the eyes as conveying more intense and more sincere emotions. This eye-wrinkle…
From the Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan press release: Physicians may want to dig a little deeper into their closets, or grab their white coats on the way out of the operating room, if…
From the University of Arizona press release: Despite stereotypes that paint millennials as “all technology, all the time,” young people may still prefer curling up with a paper book over their e-reader — even more…