From the Aalto University press release via Physorg: The way buyers perceive price and the emotions their perceptions evoke affect purchase decisions more than the exact price. This is evident from the doctoral dissertation written…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via ScienceDaily: Partisans beware! Some of your most cherished political attitudes may be malleable! Researchers report that simply answering three “why” questions on an innocuous topic…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release via HealthCanal: You push a button to call the elevator to your floor and you wait for what seems like forever, thinking it must be broken. When…
From the University of Illinois press release by Diana Yates: Liberals and conservatives who are polarized on certain politically charged subjects become more moderate when reading political arguments in a difficult-to-read font, researchers report in…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Income inequality has become a major topic of discussion over the last year and yet consensus on what (if anything) should be done about it seems elusive.…
From the University of Miami press release via EurekAlert!: Televised political advertising takes up a large portion of campaigns budgets. Much of it is spent on negative political ads. But do these negative ads work?…
From the University College London press release via HealthCanal: Researchers from UCL have found that lonely people have less grey matter in a part of the brain associated with decoding eye gaze and other social…
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: While studying the sense of touch, scientists at Duke Medicine have pinpointed specific neurons that appear to regulate perception. The sensory neurons are characterized by…
From the Sam Houston State University press release via EurekAlert!: Childhood bullying can lead to long term health consequences, including general and mental health issues, behavioral problems, eating disorders, smoking, alcohol use, and homelessness, a…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) have found a small population of neurons that is involved in measuring time,…