When going to the movies with a group of friends, one small action can make a big difference when it comes to being on the same page after the movie: eye contact. A simple conversation before the movie sets you up to be more ...
Mar 26, 2017
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Human beings are born with a visual system already predisposed to see (and mentally representing) objects as discrete perceptual units. Movement is an important visual feature, but how early in a child's development is it ...
Feb 4, 2015
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How well we understand spoken language may depend more on our brains than our ears.
Oct 3, 2023
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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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Whether it's on television or in a movie, we love the villain.
Dec 20, 2022
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When people scan the latest political headlines or watch a video from a war-ravaged land, they tend to feel snap ethical or moral responses first and reason through them later. Now a team of psychologists have developed news ...
Mar 30, 2017
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Preschoolers can be smarter than college students at figuring out how unusual toys and gadgets work because they're more flexible and less biased than adults in their ideas about cause and effect, according to new research ...
Mar 6, 2014
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New research by Zachary Estes, Professor of Marketing at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), as well as academics from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the University of California at Los Angeles, explored ...
Jun 13, 2024
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Babies show a striking reluctance to touch plants, a response that would help protect them from dangers such as toxins or thorns present throughout our evolutionary past, a new study led by Yale University researchers show.
Nov 19, 2013
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In a series of experiments recently published in Cognition, researchers from Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, Peer Christensen, Riccardo Fusaroli and Kristian Tylén, show that novel communication systems reflect ...
Sep 30, 2015
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