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Miracle Fruit and Flavor: An Experiment Performed at APS 2010
At Convention last year APS Past-President Linda Bartoshuk led a miracle fruit experiment with the audience during the Presidential Symposium in Boston, MA. Bartoshuk shared the results with attendees in a poster presentation today at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. ... More>
Visions of sugarplums: The psychology of holiday temptation
Americans typically gain a pound between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. That may not sound like much to worry about, but the problem is that we don’t lose that pound ... More>
Observer Article
More Than Meets the Eye
Want someone to like you? Here’s a hint: Crank up the temperature in the room. While most human emotional expressions are communicated via facial expressions and body language, research presented during the symposium “More Than Meets the Eye: Hidden Signals and Social Communication” shows that in addition to verbal and nonverbal visual information, touch, temperature, and olfaction have been found to affect social communication among humans.... More>
