Psychology & Psychiatry
Which is easier to remember, symbols or words?
Everyday symbols like &?!#@$ are highly memorable, according to new research.
Aug 22, 2023
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Cognition
Psychology & Psychiatry
How young children become moral and cooperative people
New work by a University of Virginia psychologist finds that the seeds of personal and social morality emerge as early as 5 years of age.
Nov 18, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Infants recognize surprise in others before age 2
Infants as young as 20 months of age expect adults to display surprise when discovering a false belief, according to a new study from UC Merced professor Rose Scott.
Feb 9, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Do we have free will?
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.
Mar 1, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Our attention is captured by eye-glance
Eyes play an important role in social communication by expressing the intentions of our interlocutors, and even more so in times of pandemic when half of the face is hidden. But is this eye contact automatic and rapid? Is ...
Apr 20, 2021
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Neuroscience
Infants recognize rapid images, just like adults
It has previously been reported that the human visual system has a temporal limitation in processing visual information when perceiving things that occur less than half a second apart. This temporal deficit is known as 'attentional ...
May 21, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New research casts doubt on claims that people have 'rose-tinted glasses'
A new study casts doubt over claims that people are 'optimistically biased' about the future, a tendency that is thought to contribute to financial crises, people's failure to look after their health, or inaction over climate ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychological research has a racism problem, scholar says
Race plays a critical role in shaping how people experience the world around them, so one would expect a rich body of literature published in mainstream psychological journals to examine its effects on people's thoughts, ...
Jun 25, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Kids show adult-like intuition about ownership
Children as young as age three are able to make judgements about who owns an object based on its location, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.
May 22, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why do people feel 'a rose by any other name' wouldn't fit as well?
Words are symbols that help humans communicate. The link between words and what they refer to is, with very few exceptions, arbitrary. Many of the words that we currently use ("table," "dog," "mug," etc) could easily have ...
Sep 23, 2015
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