From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Every year, nervous high school juniors and seniors, clutching #2 pencils and armed with hours of test preparation, sit down and take the SAT. At their most…
From the Temple University press release via EurekAlert!: With an 8.1 percent August unemployment rate and 12.5 million Americans out of work, a new Temple University study examines a neglected area of research: how the…
From the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto press release: Tax collectors and insurance agencies trying to boost honest reporting could improve compliance simply by asking people to sign their forms at…
From the Georgia Health Sciences University press release via EurekAlert!: A 10-week program that fits easily into the high school curriculum could give students a lifetime of less anger and lower blood pressure, researchers report.…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release via EurekAlert!: How does one’s experience of an event get translated into a memory that can be accessed months, even years later? A team led by University of…
From the Elsevier Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public health. A new study of noise pollution…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: With the discovery that the unconscious mind plays a key role in the placebo effect, researchers have identified a novel mechanism that helps explain…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release via ScienceDaily: Joking around can land us in hot water. Even the professionals often shoot themselves comedically in the foot. Last month, comedian Jeffrey Ross’s routine at…
From the Thomas Jefferson University press release via EurekAlert!: Patients of doctors who are more empathic have better outcomes and fewer complications, concludes a large, empirical study by a team of Thomas Jefferson Universityand Italian…
From the Asociación RUVID press release via AlphaGalileo: The percentage of workaholics in Spain is now 4.6%, and by December 2015 this figure could reach 11.8% of workers. By applying a mathematical model of difference…