Psychology

  1. Psychology

    Behavioral research may overstate results

    'Soft' sciences inflate support for what scientists expected to find, data check suggests.

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  2. Psychology

    Familiar faces

    "Super recognizers" never forget a visage, an unusual ability that can be put to good use.

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  3. Psychology

    What Makes a Hero?

    The Surprising Science of Selflessness by Elizabeth Svoboda.

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  4. Psychology

    Blood marker may predict suicide

    People who killed themselves had higher levels of a gene involved in cell death.

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  5. Psychology

    Highlights from the American Sociological Association annual meeting

    Research on social media's reluctant users, marital ideals and single parenthood and intimate victims of cybernastiness presented August 10-13 in New York City.

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  6. Psychology

    Mental disorder seen as ‘badness, not sickness’

    Health workers tend to consider borderline personality disorder a tag for patients who are difficult or impossible to treat.

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  7. Psychology

    Ratio for a good life exposed as ‘nonsense’

    A heralded calculation of people’s ability to flourish is a mathematical mirage, researchers say.

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  8. Psychology

    Present Shock

    When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff.

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  9. Psychology

    Less is more for smart perception

    Neural efficiency reigns in brains of high-IQ individuals as they view their surroundings, a new study indicates.

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  10. Psychology

    Dog sniffs out grammar

    After years of word training, a canine intuitively figures out how simple sentences work.

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  11. Psychology

    Closed Thinking

    Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere.

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  12. Psychology

    Brain training technique gets a critique

    In a new study, a popular style of memory workout leaves reasoning and mental agility flat.

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