Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have unveiled how and why the public perceives some magic tricks in recent studies that could have real-world implications in military tactics, marketing and sports.
Date Posted: May 23, 2012
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Most people are pretty bad at taking advice from others. People don't mind hearing the advice, they just hate to take it. This is one facet of what psychologists call the 'egocentric bias': the general rule that we think we know better.
The ...
May 22
GOFreiburg researchers have refuted the common belief that stress always causes aggressive behavior. A team of researchers led by the psychologists and neuroscientists Prof. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Bernadette von Dawans at the University of ...
May 22
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Worrywarts, beware: all that fretting may be for naught. Anxiety has long been interpreted as a symptom of hyperawareness and sensitivity to danger, but a study published last December in Biological Psychology turns that logic on its head.
May 22
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The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn’t matter how often he’d been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean for his legacy.
Now here he was at his ...
May 21
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Exercise clears the mind. It gets the blood pumping and more oxygen is delivered to the brain. This is familiar territory, but Dartmouth's David Bucci thinks there is much more going on.
"In the last several years there have been data suggesting ...
May 21
GOPreliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study by Yale School of Medicine researchers shows that oxytocin -- a naturally occurring substance produced in the brain and throughout the body -- increased brain function in regions that are known ...
May 21
GOWhether you’re an iPerson who can’t live without a Mac, a Facebook addict, or a gamer, you know that social media and technology say things about your personality and thought processes. And psychological scientists know it too – they’ve ...
May 19
GOMental distractions make pain easier to take, and those pain-relieving effects aren't just in your head, according to a report. The findings based on high-resolution spinal fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) as people experienced ...
May 19
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Oogachaga Counselling and Support released it's first study on the effects of homophobia and transphobia on the GLBT community in Singapore. The survey include results such as the most commonly experienced form of homophobia as well a list of common ...
May 18
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Touch research has many obvious applications. For example, in an experiment involving eight servers and several hundred restaurant diners, the servers were trained to touch randomly selected customers briefly on the arm toward the end of the meal ...
May 18
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Depressed internet users browse the web more randomly, switching between several applications, new research on university students suggests.
The researchers analyzed Internet usage among college students and found that students who show signs of ...
May 18
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Embarrassment is embarrassing. As anyone who has ever been told, “You’re blushing!” knows, displays of embarrassment can become mortifying events of their own. According to recent research, however, revealing embarrassment is nothing to be ...
May 17
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It is rhythm that makes it possible for a person with Parkinson’s Disease to get up out of their seat and dance their way across the floor. As the Parkinson’s brain processes music, the rhythm seems to coerce and cajole the movement ...
May 17
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Go on, have a few days off. Take a week - you've certainly earned it! Clear your mind, take a break - things will tick over til you return...
Easier said than done, of course. But respites from work are valuable, replenishing resources and ...
May 17
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