From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Could it be that sex actually does not sell? An analysis of nearly 80 advertising studies published over more than three decades suggests that’s the case.…
From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: When trying to memorize information, it is better to relate it to something meaningful rather than repeat it again and again to make it stick, according to…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Multitasking while studying may impair overall memory for the study material, but your ability to strategically identify and remember the most important information may stay intact, according to…
From the Georgia Institute of Technology press release: When it comes to selfies, appearance is (almost) everything. To better understand the photographic phenomenon and how people form their identities online, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers…
From the University of Plymouth press release: Tailored music sessions could be crucial in transforming the lives of millions of people whose speech is impacted by learning difficulties, strokes, dementia, brain damage and autism, a…
From the Concordia University press release: In the classroom, what’s the line between education and personal experience? This is a question addressed by Concordia alumnus Jason Butler (PhD 14) in an article recently published by…
From the New York University press release: The arrangement of the photoreceptors in our eyes allows us to detect socially significant color variation better than other types of color vision, a team of researchers has…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release: The urge to satisfy hunger is a primal one, but — as any dieter knows — choices about when and what to eat can be influenced by…
From the University of Jyväskylä press release: There is a tendency to highlight the importance of cognitive achievements and the family’s socioeconomic background for people’s success in the future, but this study shows that children’s self-regulation,…
From the Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Early life stress encodes lifelong susceptibility to stress through long-lasting transcriptional programming in a brain reward region implicated in mood and depression, according to a…