APS Press Releases
November 2009
- The Straight Dope: Studies Suggest Parental Monitoring Can Help Decrease Adolescent Marijuana Use (11/16/09)
- Can Thinking of a Loved One Reduce Your Pain? (11/13/09)
- Parents Just Don’t Understand: The Role of Parental Control in Western and East Asian Countries (11/5/09)
- Digital Divide: Psychologists suggest ways to include the aging population in the technology revolution (11/4/09)
- A Vast Right Arm Conspiracy? Study Suggests Handedness May Effect Body Perception (11/4/09)
- Sneezing in Times of a Flu Pandemic: Exposure to Public Sneezing Increases Fears of Unrelated Risks (11/2/09)
October 2009
- Angry Faces: Research Suggests Link Between Facial Structure and Aggression (10/30/09)
- No Elder Left Behind: Researchers Say Designers Can Help Close Tech Gap (10/22/09)
- Bosses who feel inadequate can turn into bullies (10/13/09)
- Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain (10/2/09)
- Where's the Science? The Sorry State of Psychotherapy (10/2/09)
September 2009
- Mad Genius: Study Suggests Link Between Psychosis and Creativity
- Use It or Lose It? Study Suggests the Brain Can Remember a "Forgotten" Language
- Under Pressure: The Impact of Stress on Decision Making
- Trust your gut? Study explores religion, morality and trust in authority
- Believing is Seeing: Study finds that thoughts color perception—Implications range from everyday misunderstandings to social anxiety and eyewitness memory (9/2/09)
- Evidence that Priming Affiliation Increases Helping Behavior in Infants As Young As 18 Months (9/2/09)
August 2009
- The Link Between Weight and Importance (8/31/09)
- Study Shows Bilinguals Are Unable to 'Turn Off' a Language Completely (8/18/09)
- Smile As You Read This: Language That Puts You in Touch With Your Bodily Feelings (8/7/09)
July 2009
- The Paradox of Loyalty (7/23/09)
- Life Lessons: Where Psychology Stands on Living Well (7/22/09)
- Starve a Fever, Feed a Cold, Don't Be Stressed (7/20/09)
- Our Metallic Reflection: Considering Future Human-Android Interactions (7/16/09)
- Knowing Me, Myself, and I: What Psychology Can Contribute to Self-Knowledge (7/16/09)
- Rejection for $500, Please: Money and Its Symbolic Powers (7/15/09)
- Hush Little Baby... Linking Genes, Brain, and Behavior in Children (7/13/09)
- The Problem with Self-Help Books: Study shows the negative side to positive self-statements (7/2/09)
- In the Eye of the Storm: Why some people stayed behind (7/2/09)
June 2009
- Don't Stand So Close to Me: Proximity Defines How We Think of Contagion (6/12/09)
- Breaking the Norm: Experiment makes men and women equally picky when selecting a mate (6/3/09)
May 2009
- Children as young as 19 months understand different dialects (5/5/09)
- New Pitt Study on Alcohol Reveals Drinkers Not Only Zone Out--But Also Are Unaware That They Do (5/5/09)
April 2009
- Study Suggests Left-Side Bias in Visual Expertise (4/27/09)
- Study Suggests Buddhist Deity Meditation Temporarily Augments Visuospatial Abilities (4/27/09)
- Living in History: How Some Historical Events Shape Our Memory (4/22/09)
- The Price of Pain and the Value of Suffering (4/22/09)
- Financial Barriers to Attending College Affect Academic Goals in Young Students (4/22/09)
- Eye Spy: Study Reveals We Seek New Targets During Visual Search, But Not During Other Visual Behaviors (4/14/09)
- I Feel Like a Different Person: Study Suggests Link Between How We Feel, Our Culture, and How We Behave (4/14/09)
- Imagine This: Study Suggests Power of Imagination is More Than Just a Metaphor (4/14/09)
- You Wear Me Out: Thinking of Others Causes Lapses in Our Self-Control (4/6/09)
- From Stress to Financial Mess: Study Suggests Acute Stress Affects Financial Decision Making(4/01/09)
March 2009
- Picky preschoolers: Young children prefer majority opinion (3/13/09)
- The genetics of fear: Study suggests specific genetic variations contribute to anxiety disorders (3/10/09)
- What I was doing vs. what I did: How verb aspect influences memory and behavior (3/10/09)
- Is that your final answer? Study suggests method for improving individual decisions (3/10/09)
- The perils of ageism (3/10/09)
- Northeastern University research shows pride's potential to foster individual success (3/4/09)
- Coming of age on the Internet (3/3/09)
- His and hers: Study examines the role of gender in the stigma of mental illness (3/3/09)
- Power and the illusion of control (3/03/09)
February 2009
- Gestures lend a hand to learning mathematics (2/26/09)
- U-M study: Violent media numb viewers to the pain of others (2/19/09)
- If It's Hard to Say, It Must be Risky (2/19/09)
- Study Indicates How We Maintain Visual Details In Short Term Memory (2/19/09)
- How We Think Before We Speak: Making Sense of Sentences (2/19/09)
- Is Difficult Better? Study Reveals We Tend to Ignore Simple Items While Pursuing Goals (2/19/09)
- The Liberating Effects of Losing Control (2/18/09)
- I Totally Empathize With You...Sometimes: Effects of Empathy on Ethnic Group Interactions (2/18/09)
- Yours, Mine, Ours: When You and I Share Perspectives (2/18/09)
- Study Suggests Collective Religious Rituals, Not Religious Devotion, Spur Support for Suicide Attacks (2/18/09)
- Read My Lips: Using Multiple Senses in Speech Perception (2/11/09)
- True or False? How Our Brain Processes Negative Statements (2/11/09)
- Born to be Wild? Thrill-Seeking Behavior May Be Based in the Brain (2/11/09)
- Study shows males are more tolerant of same-sex peers (2/11/09)
- Rich Man, Poor Man: Study shows body language can indicate socioeconomic status (2/4/09)
- Xenophobia, For Men Only (2/4/09)
- Driving Under the Influence (of Stress): Regional Effects of 9/11 Attacks on Driving (2/2/09)
- The Irony of Harmony: Why positive interactions may sometimes be negative (2/2/09)
- Differences in Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse (2/2/09)
January 2009
- The paradox of temptation (1/30/09)
- Marching to the beat of the same drum improves teamwork (1/28/09)
- Witness for the prosecution? The effect of confessions on eyewitness testimony (1/28/09)
- Did I see what I think I saw? (1/28/09)
- You can't always get what you want: Young infants understand goals, even if unsuccessful (1/28/09)
- Preferential treatment: How what we like defines what we know (1/26/09)
- Research yields new clues to how we locate objects in space (1/12/09)
- Why we procrastinate and how to stop (1/12/09)
- Making the most of it: Study reveals motivating factor for enjoying the present (1/12/09)
- Primate culture is just a stone's throw away from human evolution, study finds (1/12/09)
- Where am I? How our brain works as a GPS device (1/09/09)
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