Psychology News

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 the reward systems in the brain to promote continued gambling that, in turn, may contribute to addictive gambling behavior. “Our findings support the hypothesis that these types of near-misses are a particularly frustrating form of loss, and contradict the supposition that they are a mis-categorized...

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...