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Study says empathy plays a key role in moral judgments

Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Those who tend to say "yes" when faced with this classic dilemma are likely to be deficient in a specific kind of empathy, according to a report published in the scientific journal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created 17 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bothered by negative, unwanted thoughts? Just throw them away

(Medical Xpress)—If you want to get rid of unwanted, negative thoughts, try just ripping them up and tossing them in the trash.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers find causality in the eye of the beholder

We rely on our visual system more heavily than previously thought in determining the causality of events. A team of researchers has shown that, in making judgments about causality, we don't always need to use cognitive reasoning. ...

Neuroscience created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Calling Miss Congeniality—do attractive people have attractive traits and values?

We've all been warned not to "judge a book by its cover," but inevitably we do it anyway. It's difficult to resist the temptation of assuming that a person's outward appearance reflects something meaningful about his or her ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Study demonstrates how fear can skew spatial perception

That snake heading towards you may be further away than it appears. Fear can skew our perception of approaching objects, causing us to underestimate the distance of a threatening one, finds a study published in Current Bi ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inside the brains of jurors: Neuroscientists reveal brain activity associated with mitigating criminal sentences

(Medical Xpress) -- When jurors sentencing convicted criminals are instructed to weigh not only facts but also tricky emotional factors, they rely on parts of the brain associated with sympathy and making ...

Neuroscience created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Children find human-made objects more likely to be owned than natural objects

Children as young as 3 are likely to say that things made by humans have owners, but that natural objects, such as pine cones and sea shells, are not owned, according to a new study published by the American Psychological ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study shows left side of brain more active in immoral thinking

(Medical Xpress) -- Because the brain is so complex, researchers are forced to devise all manner of different types of tests in trying to understand not just how it works, but which parts of it do what. To ...

Neuroscience created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

New studies show moral judgments quicker, more extreme than practical ones—but also flexible

Judgments we make with a moral underpinning are made more quickly and are more extreme than those same judgments based on practical considerations, a new set of studies finds. However, the findings, which appear in the journal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 28, 2012 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

'Gaydar' automatic and more accurate for women's faces, psychologists find

After seeing faces for less than a blink of an eye, college students have accuracy greater than mere chance in judging others' sexual orientation. Their "gaydar" persisted even when they saw the photos upside-down, and gay ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Irish court: No 'right to die' for paralyzed woman (Update)

(AP)—A paralyzed Irish woman who wants to die cannot legally commit suicide with her partner's help, Ireland's Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that moved some in the courtroom to tears.

Other created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MoleMate cancer tester 'less accurate' than doctors' eyes

(Medical Xpress) -- Differentiating melanomas from other pigmented skin lesions in primary care is challenging - but a device used by Australian and British doctors to determine whether a patient has a melanoma has been found ...

Cancer created Jul 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Health apps abound, but usage low, study shows

US consumers are being offered a vast range of smartphone apps to track or manage health, but only a small number of people are using them, according to a survey.

Health created Jan 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Peer pressure in preschool children

Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better. Researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Patients increasingly sue over botched laser hair removals

(HealthDay)—Laser hair removal is the most commonly litigated cutaneous laser surgery procedure, with physicians being named as defendants even when not performing the procedure, according to research published ...

Other created Mar 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Judgement

Judgment (or judgement) is the evaluation of evidence in the making of a decision. The term has three distinct uses:

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