From the St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center press release via MedicalXPress: Barrow Neurological Institute researchers Jorge Otero-Millan, Stephen Macknik, and Susana Martinez-Conde share the recent cover of the Journal of Neuroscience in a compelling…
From the Ohio State University press release: People aren’t very good at media multitasking – like reading a book while watching TV – but do it anyway because it makes them feel good, a new…
From the San Francisco State University press release via EurekAlert!: Do you look fondly at the past, enjoy yourself in the present, and strive for future goals? If you hold these time perspectives simultaneously—and don’t…
From the Inderscience press release via AlphaGalileo: A European study of students using online social networking shows that users tend to make new connections via their own more attractive friends regardless of whether they are…
From the Springer press release: Your best side may be your left cheek, according to a new study by Kelsey Blackburn and James Schirillo from Wake Forest University in the US. Their work shows that…
From the Flinders University press release via MedicalXPress: Flinders University psychologist Professor Neil Brewer is proposing a radical alternative to the traditional police line-up, arguing current eyewitness identification tests often fail to pick the culprit,…
From the NYU press release via EurekAlert!: A network of brain regions which is activated during intense aesthetic experience overlaps with the brain network associated with inward contemplation and self-assessment, New York University researchers have…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: If you trust your feelings you are better able to predict future events—from the weather to the stock market, according to a new study…
From the University of Alberta press release via EurekAlert!: Sarah Moore says that if you want your memorable family resort vacation to stay memorable, move away from the keyboard. Seriously. Moore researches how word-of-mouth stories…
From the SUNY Buffalo press release: It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom’s good example. Research by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the University of…