psychology

16/12/2015 - 14:19

Psychiatrist Christiaan Vinkers and his colleagues searched papers on PubMed for 25 'positive' words and 25 'negative' words (which the... →

07/12/2015 - 18:38

Berlin immigrated to the U.S. at age 5. His family fled Russia to escape a wave of murderous pogroms directed at Jews. His mother often... →

25/11/2015 - 18:04

Rand’s previous studies had examined a more fundamental question: are we naturally predisposed to being selfish, or selfless? One idea was... →

21/11/2015 - 14:37

Yair Farjoun, the head of the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, added that "we make it possible for every student to acquire the tool kit that... →

19/10/2015 - 19:07

The idea of people on, or from, the moon is not unique to Western culture. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is a Japanese story dating back to... →

15/10/2015 - 13:45

Other Palestinian attacks include the stabbing of two elderly Israeli men and an assault with a vegetable peeler on a 14-year-old. On... →

12/10/2015 - 15:22

Lonely in the Empty Test Couples who have spent years parenting and working hard on their careers through their 20’s and 30’s surprisingly... →

07/09/2015 - 12:42

Kruger and Dunning were interested in testing another kind of laughing matter. They asked professional comedians to rate 30 jokes for... →

14/08/2015 - 14:59

Addyman, of Birkbeck, University of London, is out to change that. He believes we can use laughter to get at exactly how infants understand... →

10/08/2015 - 11:31

The clock is specially designed to allow participants to discern sub-second changes. This clock has a single dot, which travels around the... →

05/08/2015 - 11:52

We'll explain these visual thresholds initially through the lens – pun intended – of what many of us first think of when we consider vision... →

26/07/2015 - 17:05

Measuring time Humans have created reliable instruments to measure time by using predictable repeating events that occur naturally, such as... →

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