From the PLOS press release: Adults rely more on top-down processing than children when observing paintings by van Gogh, according to a study published June 21, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Francesco…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People tend to perceive faces they are familiar with as looking happier than unfamiliar faces, even when the faces objectively express the same emotion to the same…
From the Indiana University press release: A study led by computer scientists at Indiana University has found that people with the most connections on social media are also happier. This may cause most social media…
From the University of Iowa press release: A new study from the University of Iowa finds that to the fast typist go the leadership spoils. The study suggests that the fleet-fingered are more likely to emerge…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: We may be inclined to think that a fun experience — say, watching a movie or indulging in a tasty treat — will be all the more…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: For most of us, faces provide untold amounts of information about the people in our world. We use faces to identify someone as a friend or stranger,…
From the Leeds Beckett University press release: Just ten minutes of mindfulness meditation could be used as an alternative to painkillers, according to research by Leeds Beckett University. Results of the study suggest that a…
From the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management press release: Handwipes aren’t just for germs anymore. Their uses may extend to more flexible thinking and reorienting one’s priorities. A pair of researchers at the University…
From the American Psychological Association press release: When leaders use a moral argument rather than a pragmatic one as the basis for a position, they may be judged harshly if they change that position later. They…
From the University of Southern California press release: Smile and the whole world smiles with you? Well, not necessarily. In a winning scenario, smiling can decrease your odds of success against the same opponent in subsequent…