From the Florida State University press release: You’re in search of a new coffee maker, and the simple quest becomes, well, an ordeal. After doing copious amounts of research and reading dozens of consumer reviews,…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Your parents were right: Hard experiences may indeed make you tough. Psychological scientists have found that, while going through many experiences like assault, hurricanes, and bereavement can…
From the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology press release via ScienceDirect: Short-term memory plays a crucial role in how our consciousness operates. Several years ago a hypothesis has been formulated, according to which capacity of…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: The ability to trust, love, and resolve conflict with loved ones starts in childhood – way earlier than you may think. That is one message of a…
From the Leiden University press release via ScienceDirect: Is attention in women different from attention in men? Leiden researchers and their colleagues in Toronto investigated the effects of the hormone estrogen on spontaneous attention. They…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Contrary to what many psychological scientists think, people do not all have the same set of biologically “basic” emotions, and those emotions are not automatically expressed on…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, can boost donations and help drum up volunteers, according to a new study in the Journal of…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Does she or doesn’t she . . .? Sexual cues are ambiguous, and confounding. We – especially men – often read them wrong. A new study hypothesizes…
From the American Psychological Association press release: Mothers with jobs tend to be healthier and happier than moms who stay at home during their children’s infancy and pre-school years, according to a new study published…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Why do we stick up for a system or institution we live in—a government, company, or marriage—even when anyone else can see it is failing miserably? Why…