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Psychology & Psychiatry

To understand others' minds, 'being' them beats reading them

We tend to believe that people telegraph how they're feeling through facial expressions and body language and we only need to watch them to know what they're experiencing—but new research shows we'd get a much better idea ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Teens drive more safely in the months after a crash

Teens' risky driving drops considerably in the two months following a serious collision, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

We read emotions based on how the eye sees

We use others' eyes - whether they're widened or narrowed - to infer emotional states, and the inferences we make align with the optical function of those expressions, according to new research published in Psychological ...

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People assume sexists are also racist and vice versa

The stigma associated with prejudice against women and people of color seems to transfer from one group to another, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

To please your friends, tell them what they already know

We love to tell friends and family about experiences we've had and they haven't—from exotic vacations to celebrity sightings—but new research suggests that these stories don't thrill them quite as much as we imagine. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Couples, friends show similarity in personality traits after all

Friends and romantic partners tend to have certain characteristics in common, such as age, education, and even intelligence—and yet, research has long suggested that personality isn't one of these commonalities. But a new ...

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Words can sound 'round' or 'sharp' without us realizing it

Our tendency to match specific sounds with specific shapes, even abstract shapes, is so fundamental that it guides perception before we are consciously aware of it, according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal ...

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We dislike hypocrites because they deceive us: study

We're averse to hypocrites because their disavowal of bad behavior sends a false signal, misleading us into thinking they're virtuous when they're not, according to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the ...

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When 'golden opportunity' to bribe arises, it's hard to pass up

The path to corrupt behavior may sometimes be a steep cliff instead of a slippery slope, according to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. In four studies, psychology ...

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Children gain more weight when parents see them as 'overweight'

Children whose parents considered them to be 'overweight' tended to gain more weight over the following decade compared with children whose parents thought they were a 'normal' weight, according to analyses of data from two ...

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