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Thursday, 06 January 2011 11:25
Should You Trust Your Instincts?
A new study by Barnaby Dunn and his colleagues from the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, U.K. has shown that there is considerable variation in how good people's decision making instincts are. However, it is not the quality of our instincts that determines whether we trust them, but how sensitive we are to variations in our own heartbeat.
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010 13:17
Can How You Think About Your Age Affect Your Health
Maybe age really is just a number. How young or old someone feels has a huge influence on their health and how other people view them. An article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reviews the research and suggests that feeling young can actually make you look young—and have the health of a younger person, too.
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Thursday, 09 December 2010 11:43
Parent's Evenings - Not About The Student
Many of you will be facing the dreaded Parent's evening this week. If you are a student, fear not - it's not really about you and teacher's are usually positive, according to recent research.
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Wednesday, 08 December 2010 14:39
I Got Chills, They're Multiplying...
Most people feel chills and shivers in response to music that thrills them, but some people feel these chills often and others feel them hardly at all. People who are particularly open to new experiences are most likely to have chills in response to music, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE).
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Tuesday, 07 December 2010 10:16
Fake Accents Help Understanding
Did you laugh at ex England Manager Steve McLaren when he famously imitated a Dutch accent when being interviewed on TV in the Netherlands (see video below)? Well, he may have been on to something, because new research has shown that changing your accent to match that of the person you are speaking to can help you understand them better.
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010 11:39
Lower Class People Better At Judging Emotion
New research has found that the upper-class people are worse at judging other's emotions than those of a lower social class.
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Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:27
McGurk Effect Located In The Brain
Researchers from the University of Texas Medical School have found the region of the brain region responsible for the McGurk Effect, an auditory phenomenon in which viewing lips moving out of sync with words creates other words (see video clip).
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Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:00
Mother's More Than Twice As Likely To Be Woken Than Fathers
Working mothers are two-and-a-half times as likely as working fathers to interrupt their sleep to take care of others.
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Friday, 05 November 2010 11:06
Improve Your Maths By Applying Electricity To Your Scalp
Last month we reported that memory for people's faces could be improved by applying direct current to the scalp. Now new research has shown that mathematical ability can be improved by applying a similar current to a different area of the scalp.
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Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:20
Political Views May Depend on Genes
New research suggests that your political philosophy may have at least some genetic basis. Whether or not you have liberal views, according to the research, may be down to the action of a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4.
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