From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Infants as young as nine months old prefer individuals who are nice to people like them and mean to people who aren’t like them, according to a…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via ScienceDaily: Chewing gum can help you stay focused for longer on tasks that require continuous monitoring. This is the finding of new research by Kate Morgan…
From the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers in the UK have taken an important step towards understanding how the human brain ‘decodes’ letters on a page to read a…
From the KU Leuven press release via EurekAlert!: Mindfulness is a form of meditation therapy focused on exercising ‘attentiveness’. Depression is often rooted in a downward spiral of negative feelings and worries. Once a person…
From the University of Liverpool press release via MedicalXpress: Research led by a psychologist at the University of Liverpool has found that using memories of recent meals reduces the amount of food eaten later on. …
From the Gettysburg College press release by Kendra Martin via MedicalXpress: The contrasting nature of facial features is one of the signals that people unconsciously use to decipher how old someone looks, says Psychology Prof.…
From the University of Illinois press release: New research suggests that elite athletes – Olympic medalists in volleyball, for example – perform better than the rest of us in yet another way. These athletes excel…
From the University of Nottingham press release via MedicalXpress: The stick can work just as well as the carrot in improving our performance, a team of academics at The University of Nottingham has found. A…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Playing video games for an hour each day can improve subsequent performance on cognitive tasks that use similar mental processes to those involved in the…
From the University of Colorado Boulder press release via MedicalXpress: People assigned to positions of power tend to dehumanize those in less powerful positions even when the roles are randomly assigned, according to a new…