From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Neuroeconomics experts and guest editors of the Biological Psychiatry special issue Carla Sharp, John Monterosso, and P. Read Montague in an introductory paper define neuroeconomics as “an interdisciplinary…
From the Nottingham University press release via EurekAlert!: A joint study carried out by The University of Nottingham and the multinational food company Unilever has found for the first time that fat in food can…
From the University College London press release: Researchers at UCL and Harvard have found that we punish cheats only when they end up better off than us, in a study that challenges the notion that punishment…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Women with high job strain are 67% more likely to experience a heart attack and 38% more likely to have a cardiovascular event than their…
From the Wellcome Trust press release via EurekAlert!: Children whose fathers are more positively engaged with them at age three months have fewer behavioural problems at age twelve months, according to new research funded by…
From the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health press release via EurekAlert!: Tired? Scientists have discovered another possible benefit of a night of restful and uninterrupted sleep. According to a new study led…
From the Elsevier press release via AlphaGalileo: The recent Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has cleared the way for national requirements about posting nutritional information at chain restaurants. Listing…
From the Association of Psychological Science press release: What makes soldiers abuse prisoners? How could Nazi officials condemn thousands of Jews to gas chamber deaths? What’s going on when underlings help cover up a financial…
From the Mayo Clinic press release via ScienceDaily: Activity lingers longer in certain areas of the brain in those with Alzheimer’s than it does in healthy people, Mayo Clinic researchers who created a map of…
From the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) press release: Far from processing every word we read or hear, our brains often do not even notice key words that can change the whole meaning of…