From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Trash talking has a long and colorful history of flustering game opponents, and now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that discouraging words can be perturbing even…
From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville press release: At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Michael Phelps was caught on camera glaring as he prepared for the men’s 200-meter butterfly final. The look, popularly known as…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: People often ask University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth what predicts success. It’s an understandable question, given the pioneering work Duckworth has done in the area of grit,…
From the Washington State University press release: “I’m so bored!” It’s a typical complaint by teens in every era, but one that’s growing more common for U.S. adolescents, especially girls. New research at Washington State…
From the University of Sydney press release: When we pass through an art gallery, what determines our idea of beauty? A University of Sydney study of how people rate the aesthetics of each artwork shows…
From the American Psychological Association press release: How quickly you spend your savings in retirement may have as much or more to do with your personality than whether you have a lot of debt or…
From the Hiroshima University press release: In a recent study published in PLOS One researchers from Hiroshima University and Nagoya Institute of Technology found that if you hold your car steering wheel at certain angles (1, 4,…
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Experts don’t always agree with one another when making predictions or diagnoses. So how can we find out which expert in a group makes the best and most accurate decisions?…
From the University of Rochester press release: Language research has documented that people tend to draw inferences about speakers based on how they talk. These often implicit inferences can occur in the blink of an…
From the University of California – San Francisco press release: Neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first…