From the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (Japan) press release: A team of Japanese scientists have found scientific proof that people doing exercises appear to perform better when another person compliments them. The research was…
From the Wellcome Trust press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers supported by the Wellcome Trust have discovered that we use a different part of our brain to learn about social hierarchies than we do to learn…
From the University of Milano-Bicocca press release via EurekAlert!: Emotions are often implicit undertones to our communication interactions, and decoding them requires substantial social and cognitive abilities. Prior research has shown that chronic alcoholics often…
From the Springer Select press release: For the first time, the dynamics of how Facebook user communities are formed have been identified, revealing surprisingly few large communities and innumerable highly connected small-size communities. These findings…
From the AFTAU press release: Decision-making is an inevitable part of the human experience, and one of the most mysterious. For centuries, scientists have studied how we go about the difficult task of choosing A…
From Loyola Marymount University press release via EurekAlert!: Prior research has shown that “pre-drinking” by young people leads to heavier drinking and greater harm. A study using Internet cell-phone questionnaires examined pre-drinking by young adults…
From the University of Georgia press release: To boost self-control, gargle sugar water. According to a study co-authored by University of Georgia professor of psychology Leonard Martin published Oct. 22 in Psychological Science, a mouth…
From the SF State University press release via EurekAlert!: Unemployed workers who continue to identify with their former employer report higher well-being even after being fired or laid off from the company, according to a…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: “Visual diet,” or the images that women see, may be just as critical to their weight preferences as associating certain body types with success, according…
From the University of Bristol press release via EurekAlert!: Professor Alexander Bentley and colleagues found that words commonly used by scientists when discussing climate science – such as ‘biodiversity’, ‘global’, and ‘isotopes’ – follow fashion…