Psychology & Psychiatry
Do we tend to centre our Instagram selfies on our left eye?
Do we tend to centre our Instagram selfies on our left eye?
Sep 10, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New research debunks importance of eye contact
Remember that magical moment when you first locked eyes with your partner and felt an instant connection?
Feb 5, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Eye contact reduces lying
A new study from the University of Tampere found that eye contact can make people act more honestly. In everyday life, we often find ourselves in situations where we suspect that someone is being untruthful, whether it is ...
Nov 12, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Clues that suggest people are lying may be deceptive, study shows
The verbal and physical signs of lying are harder to detect than people believe, a study suggests.
Oct 12, 2018
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Autism spectrum disorders
People with autism may not have trouble focusing on people in photos
While people with autism may avoid eye contact in one-on-one conversations, they may not avoid looking at people in photos, according to Penn State researchers.
Aug 16, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves
Making eye contact with an infant makes adults' and babies' brainwaves 'get in sync' with each other – which is likely to support communication and learning – according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Nov 29, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Preliminary stages of dementia reduce human face memorization ability
A Japanese research group has revealed that elderly people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a particularly weakened ability to memorize human faces in the short term when compared to healthy elderly people. MCI patients ...
Nov 22, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds children pay close attention to potentially threatening information, avoid eye contact when anxious
We spend a lot of time looking at the eyes of others for social cues – it helps us understand a person's emotions, and make decisions about how to respond to them. We also know that adults avoid eye contact when anxious. ...
Aug 17, 2017
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Pediatrics
Newborn baby development has been vastly underestimated, study shows
Newborn babies may be adorable, demanding and helpless but we tend not to think of them as particularly social creatures as they come to terms with what this exciting and terrifying new world outside the womb means for them.
Aug 4, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New communication technique helps people with dementia
People with advanced dementia could be helped to interact through a non-verbal communication technique known as 'Adaptive Interaction', researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered.
Aug 4, 2017
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