Concerns over lab animal treatment Changes are needed to improve the treatment of laboratory animals at one of the UK's leading animal research centres, a panel of experts concludes.
Psychology Source: BBC News
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Neuroscience Source: New Scientist
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Why Do People Agree To Work In Boring Jobs? In the essay "The Myth of Sisyphus," philosopher Albert Camus — who would have turned 100 on Thursday — explored the nature of boring work. There's new psychological research into why people end up in boring jobs.
Psychology Source: NPR
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Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Why Are Kids Who Get Less Candy Happier On Halloween? In a psychology study using Halloween candy, kids who got a candy bar and a piece of bubble gum were less satisfied than kids who got just a candy bar. The study shows that when we think about experiences, we are significantly biased by how the experience ends.
Psychology Source: NPR
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Babies know good from evil – is this morality? Morality is innate and has evolutionary origins, argues Paul Bloom in Just Babies: The origins of good and evil – but we don't learn what turns a good baby bad
Psychology Source: New Scientist
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Raw carrots good, cooked carrots bad: our fickle food tastes From almonds to tomatoes, we often love one version of a food (ketchup) and hate another (raw slices). What is the science behind our preferences – and what are your taste quirks?
Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Why The Mess In Washington Won't Go Away The political gridlock in the nation's capital may give a little from time to time, but it's not going to go away anytime soon, psychologists say in a study just published in the journal Psychological Science.
Psychology Source: ABC News
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Psychology Source: NBCnews
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Smoking in pregnancy linked to child depression Children of women who smoked during pregnancy seem more likely to have a smaller superior frontal cortex – a brain region involved in regulating moods
Psychology Source: New Scientist
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Psychology Source: Smithsonian
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Studying The Science Behind Child Prodigies Matt Haimovitz is 42 and a world-renowned cellist. His mother took him to many concerts as a kid, but nothing in his family history explains where he got his extraordinary talent. And that's typical, says Ellen Winner, a psychology professor at Boston College who has spent much of her career studying prodigies.
Neuroscience Source: NPR
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Why Eye Contact Can Fail To Win People Over People are told that if you want to get a point across, look your audience straight in the eyes. But that works only if the person already agrees with you, a study finds. When people don't share the speaker's opinion, looking them in the eye may actually make them less likely to change their minds.
Psychology Source: NPR
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Psychology Source: New Scientist
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From The Fall Of Failure, Success Can Take Flight Risking and embracing failure is part of the job for explorers and adventurers like aeronaut Salomon August Andrée. His fatal attempt at reaching the North Pole motivated others to push their own limits. The September issue of National Geographic investigates "famous failures" and why they mattered.
Parents' Harsh Words Might Make Teen Behaviors Worse Lots of parents yell at their teenagers, but harsh verbal punishment is associated with more bad behavior on the part of the kid. Research shows that yelling is ineffective for changing behavior. A step back and a deep breath may be better options.
Psychology Source: CBSNews
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Can Your Car Make You An Unethical Driver? New research suggests the size of your car effects how you drive. If you have a big car, studies show you may be more likely to break the law. It has to do with posture and how powerful you feel.
Psychology Source: NPR
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Study Finds No Link Between Hallucinogens And Mental Problems People who had taken LSD, psilocybin or mescaline at any time in their lives were no more likely than those who hadn't to wind up in mental health treatment or to have symptoms of mental illness, a Norwegian study finds.
Psychology Source: NPR
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Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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The height of intelligence | Dean Burnett In the field of psychology, the study of intelligence is a constant source of controversy. If the concept is so hard to pin down, can sweeping judgements based on it really be reliable?
Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Facebook use associated with a decrease in well being, almost The question of how Facebook really makes people feel has been a subject of much debate — and several studies — among psychologists. The newest study suggests, much like others have in the past, that the social network can be a bit of a downer.
Psychology Source: NBCnews
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