From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: A personal bias can influence everything from the brands we buy to the way we treat other people, and in today’s world, these pre-existing beliefs can lead…
From the University of Cambridge press release: People living in the former industrial heartlands of England and Wales are more disposed to negative emotions such as anxiety and depressive moods, more impulsive and more likely…
From the University of Liverpool press release: New research published in Schizophrenia Research conducted at the University of Liverpool links brain structure to an individual’s likelihood of experiencing hallucinations and to their musical aptitude. Previous research has…
From the University of Jyväskylä press release: A study conducted at the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) has found that the brain responses…
From the New York University press release: We tend to overstate our negative feelings and symptoms in surveys, shows a new study by a team of psychology researchers. This bias wears off over time, but…
From the Brigham Young University press release: Tis the season for helping at a soup kitchen, caroling at a care facility or shoveling a neighbor’s driveway. While those gifts of self surely help others, new…
From the Michigan State University press release: The first-ever study of Michigan State University’s pioneering robot-learning course shows that online students who use the innovative robots feel more engaged and connected to the instructor and…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: When we try to stop a body movement at the last second, perhaps to keep ourselves from stepping on what we just realized was ice, we can’t always…
From the University of British Columbia press release: The amount of close and comforting contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the molecular level, an effect detectable four years later, according to…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: Babies as young as 10 months can assess how much someone values a particular goal by observing how hard they are willing to work to achieve it,…