Meaningless Accelerating Scores Yield Better Performance
From typing to exercising, racking up meaningless digital points can serve as an effective motivator, as long as the scores are accelerating… More
Cognitive Processes
Adults with Autism Make More Consistent Choices
People with autism spectrum conditions are often less sensitive to contextual information in perceptual tasks, but this may lead to more consistent choices in high-level decision-making tasks… More
Taking Photos of Experiences Boosts Visual Memory, Impairs Auditory Memory
Choosing to take photos may focus our attention, helping us remember the visual details of our experiences but impairing memory for the auditory details… More
White People Show Race Bias When Judging Deception
Research shows that White people are more likely to perceive a Black person as a truth-teller compared with a White person, although their spontaneous behavior indicates the reverse bias… More
Strategic Studying Limits the Costs of Divided Attention
Multitasking impaired students’ overall memory but not their ability to identify and remember the most important material… More
Unearned Fun Tastes Just as Sweet
We may be inclined to think that a fun experience will be all the more enjoyable if we save it until we’ve finished our work or chores, but new research shows that this intuition may be misguided. … More