New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring blinking and time perception, how words influence speech perception, and intentional binding without intentional action. More
A sample of research exploring blinking and time perception, how words influence speech perception, and intentional binding without intentional action. More
We are more envious of someone else’s covetable experience before it happens than after it has passed, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “Enviable events lose some power over us once those events are in our past,” says psychological scientist Ed More
You might think that a year as chock full of newsworthy events as 2018 would feel like it blazed by in a flash. Yet for many of us, January feels like it was eons ago. So did 2018 fly by, or did it drag on? The answer is, strangely, both. More
The study of time perception serves as a hallmark of integrative science, mixing linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and attention research to explore the ways people feel the minutes and hours pass. And increasingly, this research is focusing on the role that emotion plays in distorting our sense of time. More
Vous êtes moins intelligents que vos parents et vos enfants le seront encore moins que vous. C’est en substance l’idée répandue par une minorité de scientifiques depuis quelques années. Selon eux, le QI des populations occidentales ne cesserait de diminuer ces dernières décennies dans les pays développés. Et une nouvelle More
Students are widely judged on their abilities before being allowed to enter top universities. Athletes are assessed on their physical prowess before being awarded medals. And academic papers, like those reported in this section, must run the gauntlet of peer review before being published. In making their determinations, evaluators study More