From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: In many areas of our everyday lives, goals are the norm. That not all of them are effective, however, is something which anyone who has seen their New Year resolutions…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via ScienceDaily: Partisans beware! Some of your most cherished political attitudes may be malleable! Researchers report that simply answering three “why” questions on an innocuous topic…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release via HealthCanal: You push a button to call the elevator to your floor and you wait for what seems like forever, thinking it must be broken. When…
From the Nottingham University press release via HealthCanal: Cyberbullying – using modern communications technology such as e-mails, texts or web-postings to abuse people – is as common in the workplace as ‘conventional’ bullying. Yet, the…
From the Pennsylvania State University press release via EurekAlert!: Contrary to popular perception, stressors don’t cause health problems — it’s people’s reactions to the stressors that determine whether they will suffer health consequences, according to…
From the University of Iowa press release: Many educators have long believed that when words differ on only one sound, early readers can learn the rules of phonics by focusing on what is different between…
From the University of Illinois press release by Diana Yates: Liberals and conservatives who are polarized on certain politically charged subjects become more moderate when reading political arguments in a difficult-to-read font, researchers report in…
From the University of Alberta press release via EurekAlert!: Couples about to tie the knot shouldn’t ignore nagging doubts about getting married, warns a University of Alberta researcher. “If you are having doubts about the…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Income inequality has become a major topic of discussion over the last year and yet consensus on what (if anything) should be done about it seems elusive.…
From the University of Miami press release via EurekAlert!: Televised political advertising takes up a large portion of campaigns budgets. Much of it is spent on negative political ads. But do these negative ads work?…