People prefer explanations that refer to a more fundamental science, study says
Why do some science news stories catch our eye, even if they use exaggerated, irrelevant or inaccurate information?
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Why do some science news stories catch our eye, even if they use exaggerated, irrelevant or inaccurate information?
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A new Northwestern University study shows that even in infants too young to speak, the object categories infants form and their predictions about objects' behavior, are sculpted by the names we use to describe them.
Jul 19, 2016
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Neuroscientists based in Stockholm, Sweden, have found that they can make people 'feel' the space immediately around them, with participants describing the sensation as if they have a 'force field' surrounding them.
Jul 8, 2016
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Even before infants understand their first words, they have already begun to link language and thought. Listening to language boosts infant cognition. New evidence provides even greater insight into the crucial role of language ...
May 23, 2016
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The ability of children to speak any two dialects - two closely related varieties of the same language—may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who speak two or more substantially ...
Apr 27, 2016
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Marketers and brand managers responsible for naming new products should be interested to learn that people associate certain sounds with nearness and others with distance, say researchers from the University of Toronto, whose ...
Apr 18, 2016
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Turns out everyone does have a price—even babies.
Apr 6, 2016
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Researchers have identified a single, universal facial expression that is interpreted across many cultures as the embodiment of negative emotion.
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A theory that links memory encoding to expectations of future relevance may better explain how human memory works, according to a team of Penn State psychologists.
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Arriving home from work to find your partner toiling away in the kitchen, odds are you'll jump in and help. That's human nature. But if you're flat out ordered to help? That's a different story.
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