Psychology & Psychiatry
Turns out 'dirty money' does bother people
People tend to view money through a moral lens and are more likely to turn down or donate stolen bills and coins than "clean" cash, a new study has found.
Dec 20, 2016
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In human development research, big data could mean better results
While there is no Hubble telescope gathering data about the universe of human development, projects to make large amounts of information—big data—more accessible to developmental researchers could bring behavioral science's ...
Mar 23, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Want to boost your toddler's development? Put a toy chicken on your head!
Parents who joke and pretend with their children are teaching them important life skills, research by the University of Sheffield has revealed.
Aug 3, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Wobbly no more: Work on analogical processing helps children learn key engineering principle
Children love to build things. Often half the fun for them is building something and then knocking it down. But in a study carried out in the Chicago Children's Museum, children had just as much fun learning how to keep their ...
Mar 31, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychology researchers explore how engineers create
Simply put, engineers make things. But is finding that "new" invention a massive mental leap from point A to point B, or are there scores of unnoticed intermediate steps in between?
Jun 17, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Children can tell when adults are not telling the whole truth
Children learn a great deal about the world from their own exploration, but they also rely on what adults tell them. Studies have shown that children can figure out when someone is lying to them, but cognitive scientists ...
Jun 10, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The psychology of Tetris revealed on game's 30th birthday (w/ Video)
Over the last 30 years, people across the world have spent millions of hours fitting falling shapes into rows playing one of the biggest-selling computer games of all time. On World Tetris Day (6 June 2014), the University ...
Jun 6, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Forget about forgetting: The elderly know more and use it better
What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? If your think our brains go into a steady decline, research reported this week in the journal Topics in Cognitive Science may make you think again. The work, headed by Dr. ...
Jan 20, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study: Copycats pave the way to problem-solving success
It is often better to be surrounded by copycats than innovators, according to a new Indiana University study.
Jan 15, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
It matters where it comes from: Some people wary of organ, blood donations depending on source
(Medical Xpress)—Some people feel so "creeped out" that they would prefer not to receive an organ or blood that came from a murderer or thief, according to researchers who assessed people's beliefs that a transplant would ...
Aug 1, 2013
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