From the University of Kansas press release: To get on the good side of a new boss, colleague or acquaintance in a business meeting, leave your cell phone stashed in your pocket or purse. That…
From the PLOS press release: Young children understand dinosaurs and The Wiggles are (or were!) real, and that fictional characters like Peter Pan and Spongebob are not real — but cultural figures like Santa or…
From the Toyohashi University of Technology press release: A research team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute at Toyohashi University of Technology has indicated that the relationship…
From the University of Michigan press release: You’re standing in the store’s check-out line, and the customer behind you viciously coughs. Is that person sick or simply have a throat tickle? Chances are you’re misidentifying…
From the University of South Australia press release: White lab coats and dangerous experiments all epitomise the ‘mad scientist’ from many a Hollywood blockbuster but, even beyond the silver screen, the stereotype lives on, and…
From the Dartmouth College press release: Color awareness has long been a puzzle for researchers in neuroscience and psychology, who debate over how much color observers really perceive. A study from Dartmouth in collaboration with…
From the University of Southern California press release: As news of the coronavirus swept the nation in March 2020, the risks of COVID-19 infection and infection-fatality were still unclear. Perhaps as a result, a new…
From the University of Sussex press release: People make irrational trust decisions precisely: “shouting” and spelling mistakes add together to make online health information appear doubly less trustworthy. Online health information is deemed doubly less…
From the Anglia Ruskin University press release: People with severe vision loss can less accurately judge the distance of nearby sounds, potentially putting them more at risk of injury, according to new research published in…
From the University of Texas at Austin press release: Beyond fame and fortune, certain traits and behaviors may have pervasive influence in climbing the social ladder, according to a study by evolutionary psychologists at The…