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Guys Prefer Electric Shocks to Boredom
Scientific American: How often have you longed to have time to just sit quietly and think? Well, be careful what you wish for. Because a study shows that many people find such interludes incredibly unpleasant.
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Smoking Up Behind the Wheel Linked to Risky Driving While Sober
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol has been tied in previous studies to other dangerous driving behaviors, like speeding and dangerous overtaking, but research investigating the relationship between cannabis and risk of car
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Wann Überfluss zum Kauf motiviert (When motivated abound to purchase)
ORF Austria: Wie groß die Produktbandbreite sein sollte, um Kunden zum Kauf zu motivieren, bestimmt hauptsächlich, wie gut sie über das Produkt Bescheid zu wissen glauben. Angebot kann Lust aufs Kaufen machen – oder davon
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Young Children Bet on Their Numerical Skills: Metacognition in the Numerical Domain Vy A. Vo, Rosa Li, Nate Kornell, Alexandre Pouget, and Jessica F. Cantlon Although metacognition
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When It’s Bad to Have Good Choices
The New Yorker: It may not surprise you to learn that healthy, well-fed people in affluent countries are often unhappy and anxious. But it did startle Zbigniew Lipowski when he came to a full realization
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Is One of the Most Popular Psychology Experiments Worthless?
The Atlantic: Harvard University justice professor Michael J. Sandel stood before a lecture hall filled with students recently and presented them with an age-old moral quandary: “Suppose you’re the driver of a trolley car, and your trolley