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The strange allure of electric shocks An experiment testing people’s altruism in the face of electric shocks is clear on one thing: we are drawn to these little blasts
Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Wednesday, Nov 19, 2014, 8:12am Rating: | Views: 2367 | Comments: 0
Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Friday, Oct 31, 2014, 8:41am Rating: | Views: 1332 | Comments: 0
Social anxiety: why the mundane can be terrifying Many people experience severe anxiety in mundane social situations, such as group introductions or paying bills. Why does this happen? And is there any useful purpose to it?
Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Thursday, Oct 16, 2014, 8:52am Rating: | Views: 1227 | Comments: 0
Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Your Fellow Diners' Size May Affect How Much You Eat In one study, people who ate near a heavier dining companion served themselves lots more food. Researchers say a fellow diner's weight is just one of many subconscious cues influencing what we eat.
Psychology Source: NPR
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Friday, Oct 03, 2014, 9:27am Rating: | Views: 1226 | Comments: 0
Why On-Field Violence Continues Off-Field When you're paid to hit people, it's not always easy to stop at the end of the work day—a fact the NFL has to reckon with, and fast
Psychology Source: TIME Magazine
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Friday, Sep 19, 2014, 8:10am Rating: | Views: 1270 | Comments: 2
Shockers: Psychology experiments that we'd ban now You can learn a lot about people if you mess with their minds. Here are four infamous experiments in which psychologists gave in to unethical temptations
Psychology Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Sep 18, 2014, 7:48am Rating: | Views: 1241 | Comments: 0
How Far Can Curiosity Take You? As a kid, director James Cameron was fascinated with exploring the world around him — everything from pond water to bugs. Those childhood obsessions led him some of the deepest places underwater.
In Some Jobs, Past Achievements May Work Against Female Workers London Business School researchers find that the more competent and accomplished women are, the worse their performance evaluations — when it comes to managers with traditional gender attitudes.
Glenn Gould in Rapture You don't get to see this too often; a man (in this case, a very talented man) totally possessed by his muse. Watch pianist Glenn Gould deep in what psychologists call "A Flow State."
The Point of Pointing Five years ago cognitive scientist Rafael Núñez found himself in the Upper Yupno Valley, a remote, mountainous region of Papua New Guinea. The area is home to some 8,000 indigenous people, and Núñez and his graduate student, Kensy Cooperrider, were studying their conceptions of time.
Psychology Source: National Geographic
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Tuesday, Sep 02, 2014, 8:21am Rating: | Views: 1246 | Comments: 0
A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry In the 1950s a group of pioneering psychiatrists showed that hallucinogenic drugs had therapeutic potential, but the research was halted as part of the backlash against the hippy counterculture.
Psychology Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Aug 21, 2014, 8:01am Rating: | Views: 1176 | Comments: 0
Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head If we want to understand whats happening in the brain when people hear voices, we first need to understand what happens during ordinary inner speechHearing voices: whats your experience when reading?
Psychology Source: TheGuardian
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Thursday, Aug 21, 2014, 8:01am Rating: | Views: 1454 | Comments: 0
Psychology Source: Wired
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Do You Want To Be Happy? Don't Set Your Expectations Too High Pretty much everyone thinks that rewards bring happiness, but it's not the size of the payoff that matters, researchers say. Rather it's whether the reward exceeds your immediate expectations.
Psychology Source: NPR
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When Work Becomes A Haven From Stress At Home Moms who worked full time reported significantly better physical and mental health than moms who worked part time, research involving more than 2,500 mothers found.