Psychology

  1. Psychology

    Stress hormone rise linked to less risky financial decisions

    People given cortisol chose safer options, suggesting inherent risk aversion as an overlooked variable in financial crises.

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  2. Science & Society

    Figure skating judges get a 10 for duplicity

    Sport’s reform efforts have resulted in more nationalistic bias and vote trading.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Famous brain surgery patient H.M. retained a chunk of hippocampus

    The patient's amnesia was probably due to the loss of other regions and neural connections.

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  4. Psychology

    The most (and least) realistic movie psychopaths ever

    A forensic psychologist spent three years watching 400 movies to trace portrayals of psychopaths.

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  5. Psychology

    Migraines respond to great expectations

    Patients get more pain relief from drug and placebo labeled as headache busters than from those labeled as dummy pills.

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  6. Life

    Feedback

    Readers discuss dog origins and how important a sense of scale is in science journalism.

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  7. Psychology

    Year in Review: DSM-5’s controversial debut

    The diagnostic manual updates disorder criteria.

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  8. Psychology

    Moral Tribes

    Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene.

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  9. Psychology

    When stressed, the brain goes ‘cheap’

    A new study shows that stress makes you go with your gut, biasing your decisions against the more “expensive” method of thinking things through.

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  10. Psychology

    Barcelona soccer team’s 2009 wins led to slight baby boom

    In Bages, birth rates rose 16 percent, but in Barcelona they only increased 1.2 percent.

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  11. Psychology

    The Tell

    The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths About Who We Are by Matthew Hertenstein.

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  12. Science & Society

    Heal thy neighbor

    As antidepressants and other drugs gradually replace psychotherapy in the United States, new forms of the talking cure are growing in popularity in developing countries ravaged by civil war and poverty.

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