News Archive
December 2008
- Study Finds We Are Better Able to Detect Racial Tension in Members of Our Racial Group (12/22/08)
- The Effect of Parental Education on the Heritability of Children’s Reading Disability (12/22/08)
- Study Indicates How We Make Proper Movements (12/18/08)
- A Walk In The Park A Day Keeps Mental Fatigue Away (12/18/08)
- Are Power and Compassion Mutually Exclusive? (12/17/08)
- Racial Tension in a "Split-Second" (12/17/08)
- Cry Me a River: The Psychology of Crying (12/17/08)
- More Than Just Being a Sentimental Fool: The Psychology of Nostalgia (12/12/08)
- Study Reveals Clues to How We Forget Over Short-Term (12/12/08)
- Thinking Like a President: How Power Affects Complex Decision Making (12/09/08)
- Conscious vs. Unconscious Thought in Making Complicated Decisions (12/09/08)
- When 2 + 2 = Major Anxiety: Math Performance in Stressful Situations (12/09/08)
- Is Empty Nest Best? Changes in Marital Satisfaction in Late Middle Age (12/02/08)
- Using Challenging Concepts to Learn Promotes Understanding of New Material (12/01/08)
- Cleanliness Can Compromise Moral Judgment (12/01/08)
November 2008
- In Sickness and Health: Caring For Ailing Spouse May Prolong Your Life (11/25/08)
- Prejudice Affects Perception of Ethnic Minority Faces (11/25/08)
- Why C Is Not G: How We Identify Letters (11/25/08)
- Uncertainty Can Be More Stressful Than Clear Negative Feedback (11/20/08)
- The Smart Way To Study (11/18/08)
- Bound By Attention: Bringing Rats and Humans Together (11/18/08)
- The Psychology of Déjà vu (11/18/08)
- Those Were the Days: Counteracting Loneliness with Nostalgia (11/12/08)
- Decisions, Decisions: Feedback Influences Decision Making (11/12/08)
- The Comparative Mind-set: From Animal Comparisons to Increased Purchase Intentions (11/12/08)
- How our senses combine to give us a better view of the world (11/12/08)
October 2008
- New Study Explores Social Comparison in Early Childhood (10/30/08)
- Baby Talk: The Roots of the Early Vocabulary in Infants’ Learning From Speech (10/30/08)
- Male Warriors and Female Peacekeepers: Gender Biases in Leadership Selection During Competitions Within and Between Groups (10/30/08)
- If it’s hard to read, it’s hard to do: Study shows difficult to read instructions decrease motivation (10/30/08)
- Our Cheatin’ Brain: The Brain’s Clever Way of Showing Us the World as a Whole (10/29/08)
- Study finds that stressed older drivers are three times more likely to brake than calm drivers (10/28/08)
- It All Adds Up: Early Achievement in Math May Identify Future Scientists and Engineers (10/27/08)
- Phony Friends? Rejected People Better Able to Spot Fake Smiles (10/24/08)
- Could your initials influence where you choose to work? (10/23/08)
- Seeing red- in the number seven (10/22/08)
- The Nose Knows: Two Fixation Points Needed for Face Recognition (10/20/08)
- Teenage Wasteland: Kids who drink before 15 at increased risk for poor health as adults (10/16/08)
- Deal or No Deal? The Role of Emotions in Negotiating Offers (10/15/08)
- Just a numbers game? Making Sense of Health Statistics (10/10/08)
- Research finds customers' fixation on minimum payments drives up credit card bills (10/06/08)
- Television Viewing and Aggression: Some Alternative Perspectives (10/01/08)
September 2008
- Eureka! How distractions facilitate creative problem-solving (9/30/08)
- On the Move: Personality influences migration patterns (9/24/08)
- Un-total Recall: Amnesics Remember Grammar, but Not Meaning of New Sentences (9/23/08)
- Cold and Lonely: Does Social Exclusion Literally Feel Cold? (9/15/08)
- Illusion vs. Reality: Age-related differences in expectations for future happiness (9/11/08)
- Why delaying gratification is smart: A neural link between intelligence and self-control (9/09/08)
August 2008
- Sticks and Stones: A New Study on Social and Physical Pain (8/27/08)
- Trouble Quitting?: A New Pitt-Carnegie Mellon Smoking Study May Reveal Why (8/26/08)
- New Study Shows False Memories Affect Behavior (8/19/08)
- Red All Over: How the color red affects a referee’s judgment (8/08/08)
- I Can, Automatically, Become Just Like You: The Effects of Exclusion on Nonconscious Mimicry (8/06/08)
- Back to the Future: Psychologists examine children’s mental time traveling abilities (8/05/08)
July 2008
- The Power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose, and memory (7/30/08)
- Reflecting on values promotes love, acceptance (7/22/08)
- How carrots help us see the color orange (7/22/08)
- Age-Old Money Matters: Positivity in older adults leads to balanced investments (7/10/08)
- Money Makes the Heart Grow Less Fond (7/09/08)
June 2008
- Happiness is rising around the world: U-M study (6/30/08)
- The Perils of Overconfidence (6/30/08)
- When the Powerless Rise Up: Power leads to positive action, but only when acquired legitimately (6/16/08)
- Eastern Independence, Western Conformity? Study on Pen Selection Helps to Clarify Japanese and American Misconceptions (6/13/08)
- Who Shalt Not Kill? Brain Power Leads to Level-Headedness When Faced with Moral Dilemmas (6/09/08)
- Friends by chance? (6/02/08)
May 2008
April 2008
- United We Stand: When cooperation butts heads with competition (4/30/08)
- New Research Shows Consistency in Synaesthetic Experiences (4/29/08)
- Cause and Affect: Emotions can be unconsciously and subliminally evoked (4/28/08)
- What does it mean to be alive? How notions of the natural world unfold in development and across languages. (4/28/08)
- Is Happiness Having What You Want, Wanting What You Have, Or Both? (4/28/08)
- On the High Horse: Why dominant individuals climb the proverbial ladder (4/23/08)
- It Pays to Know Your Opponent: Success in Negotiations Improved by Perspective-Taking, but Limited by Empathy (4/22/08)
- Are humans hardwired for fairness? (4/16/08)
- A Little Anxiety Pays Sometimes, Study Shows (4/03/08)
March 2008
- Are you my mother? Transference more pronounced when we are tired (3/31/08)
- Study Shows Upside of Anger (3/26/08)
- Running Words Together: The Science Behind Cross-Linguistic Psychology (3/25/08)
- Hand Can't Be Fooled, Study Shows (3/10/08)
- New study reveals profound impact of our unconscious on reaching goals (3/07/08)
- Awkward! New study examines our gazes during potentially offensive behavior (3/05/08)
- Genes hold the key to how happy we are, scientists say (3/04/08)
February 2008
- The Evolution of Aversion: Why even children are fearful of snakes (2/27/08)
- Total, Genetically-Based Recall: Psychologists explore possibility of sex differences in memory, findings favor females (2/20/08)
- Yes, No, Maybe So: New Model Helps Identify What Works in Mental Health Treatment (2/15/08)
- A Sense of Scarcity: Why it seems like all the good ones are taken (2/12/08)
- The Beauty Bias: Can People Love the One They Are Compatible With? (2/11/08)
- Misery is not Miserly: New Study Finds Why Even Momentary Sadness Increases Spending (2/8/08)
- New York, New York: Study determines difference between abstract and concrete jungle (2/8/08)
January 2008
- Destined to Cheat? New research finds free will can keep us honest (1/28/08)
- Unanimous Union: The mind and body together lean toward ‘truthiness’ (1/24/08)
- Do Today's Young People Really Think They Are So Extraordinary? (1/17/08)
- Nature and Nurture are both to blame for depression, study says (1/15/08)
- Culture Influences Brain Function (1/11/08)
- Lasting Impression: Does the Face of a CEO Determine a Successful Company? (1/10/08)
- Lack of Imagination in Older Adults Linked to Declining Memory (1/07/08)
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