Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Kele Ding
15 Jun 2008
Imagine a photograph showing your friend’s face. Although you might think that every single detail in his face matters to recognize him, previous experiments have shown that the brain prefers a rather coarse resolution instead.
This is tantamount to that a small rectangular photograph of about 30 to 40 pixels in [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Kele Ding
22 Apr 2008
The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it responds to winning money and eating chocolate, UCLA scientists report. Being treated fairly turns on the brain’s reward circuitry.
“We may be hard-wired to treat fairness as a reward,” said study co-author Matthew D. Lieberman, UCLA associate professor of psychology and a [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Kele Ding
05 Apr 2008
Whether you are running for president or looking for a clerical job, you cannot afford to get angry if you are a woman, Yale University psychologist Victoria Brescoll has found.
Brescoll and Eric Uhlmann at Northwestern University recently completed three separate studies to explore a phenomenon that may be all-too-familiar to women like New [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Kele Ding
27 Mar 2008
Here’s a maxim from the “duh” department: People typically prefer to feel emotions that are pleasant, like excitement, and avoid those that are unpleasant, like anger.
But a new study appearing in the April issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, says this may not always be the case. [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Kele Ding
24 Mar 2008
A new study in the Journal of Personality reveals the extent to which children’s personality types can predict the timing of key transitional moments between childhood and adulthood.
The study set out to examine whether childhood personality would predict the timing of important transitional events moving into adulthood, including leaving the parents’ home, establishing [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Kele Ding
10 Mar 2008
Whether you are a habitual list maker, or you prefer to keep your tasks in your head, everyone pursues their goals in this ever changing, chaotic environment. We are often aware of our conscious decisions that bring us closer to reaching our goals, however to what extent can we count on our unconscious [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Kele Ding
These findings are published in the upcoming issue of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the results are replicated in a collaborative study between Huaitang Wang and Takahiko Masuda (University of Alberta, Canada) and Keiko Ishii (Hokkaido University, Japan)
08 Mar 2008
A team of researchers from Canada and Japan have uncovered some remarkable [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Kele Ding
23 Feb 2008
A new study published in the journal Human Communication Research reveals that viewers can be influenced by exposure to racial bias in the media, even without realizing it.
Led by Dana Mastro of the University of Arizona, the study exposed participants to television clips where Latinos were portrayed in both flattering and unflattering ways.
First, [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Kele Ding
21 Feb 2008
There are several human characteristics considered to be genetically predetermined and evolutionarily innate, such as immune system strength, physical adaptations and even sex differences. These qualities drive the nature versus nurture debate and ask of our species, who is more successful and why?
Psychologists Agneta Herlitz and Jenny Rehnman in Stockholm, Sweden asked an [...]
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