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Developing a Taste for Perceptual Psychology
No two people perceive a particular food in exactly the same way. Discoveries in genetics and psychology point to genetic variations in taste and smell receptors as root causes of individual differences in taste and smell. The APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science awarded a grant to Danielle R. Reed and Scott Stein to support the creation of an in-class teaching module entitled Developing a Taste for Perceptual Psychology.
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Social Rejection Could Affect Body’s Immune System, Study Suggests
The Huffington Post: We all know that rejection seriously hurts — and now a new study shows how it could actually be bad for our health. Scientists from the University of British Columbia, Brandeis University
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Political strength
The Economist: Male Harris sparrows are pugnacious beasts. They signal their status by the darkness of their plumage, and woe-betide any male whose signal is false—for if an itinerant ethologist blackens a subordinate’s feathers, the
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What’s Good, When, and Why?
Promising new work in emotion regulation suggests that the means by which we decide how to regulate what we feel — and even recognize our own emotions — might be the most productive areas for
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Swimming in the Educational Gene Pool? How Far Can Children Go With the Genes They Have?
The Huffington Post: It seems so sci-fi! First there were educational toys, then educational apps and now educational genes. A recent paper published in the journal Developmental Psychology finds that there are three genes associated
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A ’30 Rock’ Player Sells Himself to Science for ‘The Lutz Experiment’
The New York Times: To comedy fans, John Lutz is an unlikely cult figure — a performer at improv theaters and a former writer at “Saturday Night Live” who now plays an eponymous, endearingly silly