Psychology & Psychiatry

Reducing 20/20 hindsight bias

You probably know it as Monday-morning quarterbacking or 20/20 hindsight: failures often look obvious and predictable after the fact—whether it's an interception thrown by a quarterback under pressure, a surgeon's mistake, ...

Health

Regulation of junk food advertising has minimal impact

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that regulations introduced to reduce children's exposure to junk food advertising have not had a significant impact.

Addiction

Smoking: Quitting is tough for teens, too

Abstinence from smoking seems to affect teens differently than adults in a couple ways, but a new study provides evidence that most of the psychological difficulties of quitting are as strong for relatively new, young smokers ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Aesop's Fable unlocks how we think

(Medical Xpress) -- Cambridge scientists have used an age-old fable to help illustrate how we think differently to other animals.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Helping children see the signs

Remember when your little league football team lost the game because someone ran the ball back into their own end zone? Take heart, one University of Alberta researcher says it may be the player's unfamiliarity with perceiving ...

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