From the Association for Psychological Science press release: New experiments show that the experience of thinking fast makes people more likely to take risks. This discovery suggests that some of the innovations of the modern…
From the Florida State University press release via EurekAlert!: The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent…
From the Northeastern University press release via MedicalXPress: We get wrinkles. Our hair turns gray, or we lose it altogether. Our job prospects diminish and our chances of incurring disease increase. Researchers across the globe…
From the National Science Foundation press release: An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers at University of Chicago. Psychologist Susan Levine and colleagues recently conducted a study that…
From the Inderscience press release via AlphaGalileo: Making play sets more interactive and giving children with autism greater opportunities to control and add content of their own to the game could improve cooperative play with…
From the IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute via EurekAlert!: The proficiency that a bilingual person has of both languages, the context in which he speaks them or unconscious changes in their use are the factors that…
From the National Science Foundation press release via Physorg: Teaching children mathematics at a young age may be as simple as helping them see how math is all around them. “Children as young as three…
From the University of Gothenburg via EurekAlert!: Intelligence – what does it really mean? In the 1800s, it meant that you were good at memorising things, and today intelligence is measured through IQ tests where…
From the Pennsylvania State University press release: For many people, the motivation to exercise fluctuates from week to week, and these fluctuations predict whether they will be physically active, according to researchers at Penn State.…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Do romance movies warm people up? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research finds that yes, consumers choose romance movies over other…