From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: Meditation is beneficial for our well-being. This ancient wisdom has been supported by scientific studies focusing on the practice of mindfulness. However, the…
From the Ohio State University press release: One of the tactics that discourages student cheating may not work as well in courses that college students particularly dislike, a new study has found. Previous research suggests instructors…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: How should employers reward creative types for turning in fresh, inventive work: with a plaque or a party recognizing their achievement, or with cold, hard cash? According…
From the New York University press release: Being under stress diminishes our abilities to predict new dangers that we face, a team of psychology researchers finds. Its work runs counter to the conventional view that stress…
From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: Imagine a parent who is shopping and has a few moments to spare before heading home. If the parent has both a son and daughter but time to…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People rated images containing positive content as fading more smoothly compared with neutral and negative images, even when they faded at the same rate, according to findings published…
From the Springer press release: Although both men and women gossip, women may be more likely to use gossiping and rumour-mongering as tactics to badmouth a potential rival who is competing for a man’s attention.…
From the University of Exeter press release: Women can be just as risk-taking as men — or even more so — when the conventional macho measures of daring — such as betting vast sums on a…
From the University of Utah press release: Many of the infotainment features in most 2017 vehicles are so distracting they should not be enabled while a vehicle is in motion, according to a new study by…
From the University of Southern California press release: New brain research by USC scientists shows that reading stories is a universal experience that may result in people feeling greater empathy for each other, regardless of cultural…