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Improving Willpower: How to Keep Self-Control from Flagging
TIME: Why does willpower often seem to fail us, just when we need it most? Some researchers argue that willpower is a limited resource that wears out, like a muscle exhausted by overuse. Other experts
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Suspect Line Up
ABC Catalyst: There are two major problems. One is when the witness to the crime is asked to come in and look at a line up they come with quite strong expectations that the bad
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When Does Tragedy Become Funny?
Discovery News: A new study helps explain why Sarah Silverman can make us laugh about racism, how the Onion manages to poke fun of religious intolerance in the midst of violent unrest in the Middle
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Know it all? Or perhaps you’re suffering from ‘hindsight bias’
The Telegraph: Now it is the braggarts’ turn to be found out. Scientists claim to have established that, far from being super-sleuths, such people are usually deluded. Researchers found that they are suffering from “hindsight
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Wanneer liegen we? (When are you thinking are we?)
Express: Mochten we af en toe over wat meer tijd beschikken, we zouden minder liegen. Tot die conclusie komen Shaul Salvi (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Ori Eldar (Ben Gurion University) en Yoella Bereby-Meyer (Ben Gurion University).
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How Do We Make Moral Judgments? – Insights From Psychological Science
New research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, provides intriguing insights into some of the factors that influence how we make moral judgments. Reappraising Our Emotions Allows Cooler Heads
