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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Cognitive Science
Psychology & Psychiatry
Kids place moral value on money
Children who learn that a dollar is 'dirty' are apprehensive to take it, preferring instead to accept a dollar that does not have a negative moral history, a new study shows.
May 12, 2021
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Neuroscience
You don't see what I see? Visual perception may depend on birthplace and environment
Perhaps we only see what we've learned to see.
May 23, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Kids think stereotypes reflect how world should be
Once children believe that a group is characterized by a certain trait, they think individual people within that group should also be judged by that trait, according to a University of Michigan study.
Dec 22, 2016
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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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Medical research
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
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
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
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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