Grouping things into categories can bias perceptions
Family or species, color or size, grouping things into categories is efficient for the brain. But those categories can also create biases in perception, studies show.
Feb 17, 2022
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Family or species, color or size, grouping things into categories is efficient for the brain. But those categories can also create biases in perception, studies show.
Feb 17, 2022
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Last spring, a small, self-contained and airtight modular building was set up in the parking lot outside Barnhart Hall.
Feb 16, 2022
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Wordle, the wildly popular five-word guessing game, has been called "genius" and "the pandemic game we didn't know we needed," but don't count on it to improve your brain power a UO psychology professor says.
Feb 16, 2022
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Sometimes, a gut feeling is literal.
Feb 10, 2022
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While the number of Oregonians who were staunchly anti-vaccine has declined, a still-significant number who generally live in rural areas of the state say nothing will convince them to get vaccinated.
Feb 3, 2022
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If behavior is a language, UO neuroscientist Luca Mazzucato is decoding its grammar.
Jan 3, 2022
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Even when at rest, the brain is never truly quiet.
Nov 30, 2021
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The use of cash lotteries to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates were not effective, according to a new study from UO economist Ben Hansen and researchers from Bentley University, the University of Colorado Denver and San Diego ...
Nov 23, 2021
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A UO professor has distilled 10 years of research on birth control and women's experiences surrounding it into a new book that's already sparking conversations across the country.
Nov 10, 2021
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Most people are familiar with using food as a way to get through a trying time.
Sep 27, 2021
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