From the New York University press release: People with higher cognitive abilities are more likely to learn and apply social stereotypes, finds a new study. The results, stemming from a series of experiments, show that those…
From the University College London press release: Adults with autism may overestimate the volatility of the world around them, finds a new UCL study published in Nature Neuroscience. The researchers found that adults with autism were less…
From the University of Lincoln press release: Men with problem and pathological gambling addictions are more likely to have suffered childhood traumas including physical abuse or witnessing violence in the home, according to new research. Psychologists…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release: Even among people who had just joined a gym and expected to visit regularly, getting paid to exercise did little to make their commitment stick, according to a…
From the Cell Press press release: “Chunking” has been a concept in cognitive psychology since the mid-1950s. It is the means by which individual items or words are grouped together into larger units so that…
From the Michigan State University press release: The simple act of silently talking to yourself in the third person during stressful times may help you control emotions without any additional mental effort than what you would…
From the American Psychological Association press release: Contrary to public perception and many media accounts, women and men report similar levels of work-family conflicts, both in the form of work interfering with family and family interfering…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: Do you know your country’s current inflation rate? What do you think it will be in the future? And how do you, personally, try to plan your finances…
From the Tufts University, Health Sciences Campus press release: What determines how children decide to spend their cash on snacks? A new study shows that children’s experience with money and their liking of brands influenced purchase…
From the Case Western Reserve University press release: Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western Reserve University may help explain the extreme perspectives,…