Psychology News

Aug 27, 2013 by News Staff

Language can play a powerful role in what we see, say Prof Gary Lupyan from the University of Wisconsin and Emily Ward from Yale University. These images show the procedure of experiments: participants wore red-cyan glasses and viewed stereograms containing a high-contrast red mask and a superimposed lower-contrast cyan object (Gary Lupyan / Emily J. Ward). What we see is a function not only of incoming visual information, but also how that information...

Aug 23, 2013 by News Staff

According to Dr Peter Jonason from the University of Western Sydney and his colleagues, people who stay up late at night are more likely to display anti-social...

Aug 12, 2013 by News Staff

According to a team of scientists from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Los Angeles, different types of happiness have...

Jun 5, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, the width of blood vessels in the retina – a light-sensitive layer at the...

May 27, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Michael Melnick from the University of Rochester, people with high IQ scores aren’t just more intelligent, they...

May 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Center for Market and Public Organization who studied why people choose to make large donations to charity...

Apr 12, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study conducted by Dr Jemma McCready and Dr Mark Moss from the University of Northumbria, England, the aroma of rosemary oil may improve...

Jan 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study published today in the online journal mBio, male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs...

Oct 11, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Canadian researchers have provided new evidence that gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins. This frustration stimulates...

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have discovered that people with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell,...

May 30, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas has found that East Asian and American Facebook users...

May 14, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has found ambient background noise to be an important factor affecting creative cognition among consumers. The new...

May 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from the University of Granada in Spain has found that many of the individuals claiming to see the aura of people – traditionally...

Feb 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and Indiana University has found that humans move between patches in their memory using the same strategy...

Feb 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of researchers from the Northumbria University, UK, their new study could explain why Fabio Capello recently quit as England manager...

Feb 1, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Montreal has revealed that emotional responses differ between men and women, and that a woman’s memory of...

Dec 5, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers have found that people with bad credit scores are more impatient, stated in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science. The...

Nov 28, 2011 by News Staff

Original thinkers are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions,...

Sep 10, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from California Institute of Technology and UCLA reported that neurons throughout the amygdala, a center in the brain known for processing...