Psychology
- 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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- Psychology
Year in Review: DSM-5’s controversial debut
The diagnostic manual updates disorder criteria.
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- 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.
- 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.
- Psychology
The Tell
The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths About Who We Are by Matthew Hertenstein.
- 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.
- Psychology
Gut reaction could foretell marriage satisfaction
Unconscious gut reactions may predict happy, and not-so-happy, marriages, a new study suggests.
- Psychology
People prefer to just get pain over with
A new study shows that people would rather experience pain ASAP, even if it means experiencing more pain.
- Psychology
Almost-lifelike hands perceived as creepy
Devices have to be very realistic to the escape uncanny valley of eeriness.
- Psychology
Do you want the good news or the bad news first?
Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news first? A new study purports to answer the question. But can we apply this to how we deliver news? Well, I have good news, and I have bad news.
