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The Perfect Nap: Sleeping Is a Mix of Art and Science
The Wall Street Journal: There’s an art to napping. Studies have found different benefits—and detriments—to a nap’s timing, duration and even effect on different people, depending on one’s age and possibly genetics. “Naps are actually
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Young versus old
BBC: A new study shows it’s more that we have bad moments than bad days. There’s some good news if you’re older. Although people, on average, do worse on memory tests as they age, it
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Memory weakens but steadies with age, study finds
BBC: Older people were more consistent in memory tests, research from Germany shows – although younger people did achieve overall higher test scores. The assessments were carried out in Berlin on 100 older people
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: The Relative Trustworthiness of Inferential Tests of the Indirect Effect in Statistical Mediation Analysis: Does Method Really Matter? Andrew F. Hayes and Michael Scharkow Mediation analysis is
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: One for All: Social Power Increases Self-Anchoring of Traits, Attitudes, and Emotions Jennifer R. Overbeck and Vitaliya Droutman The authors of this study hypothesized that powerful people
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Evidence-based justice: Corrupted memory
Nature: In a career spanning four decades, Loftus, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, has done more than any other researcher to document the unreliability of memory in experimental settings. And she has
