From the BYU press release via HealthCanal: Setting a price limit when shopping often backfires, according to new research from Brigham Young University and Emory University marketing professors. The study found that merely thinking about…
From the University of South Carolina press release via Newswise: Beach rental companies could earn bigger profits this summer if they know when to market a vacation stay for two weeks rather than 14 days.…
From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: An investigation published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics explores the processing of body pictures in binge eating. Previous research suggests that…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: One cup or two faces? What we believe we see in one of the most famous optical illusions changes in a split second; and so does the path that the…
From the BioMed Central Limited press release via AlphaGalileo: Bite size depends on the familiarity and texture of food. Smaller bite sizes are taken for foods which need more chewing and smaller bite sizes are…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: When observing a fly buzzing around the room, we should have the impression that it is not the fly, but rather the space that lies behind it that is moving.…
From the Springer press release via AlphaGalileo: Anxious people have a heightened sense of smell when it comes to sniffing out a threat, according to a new study by Elizabeth Krusemark and Wen Li from…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: You’ve been feeling under the weather. You Google your symptoms. A half-hour later, you’re convinced it’s nothing serious—or afraid you have cancer. More than 60 percent of…
From the University of Miami press release via EurekAlert!: Convincing speeches are central to campaigning for elected office, but do our voices affect how we select our leaders? A newly-published paper in Proceedings of the…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Packaging an expensive item with a cheap one seems like a no-brainer. But according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research,…