Psychology
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Psychology
Behavioral research may overstate results
'Soft' sciences inflate support for what scientists expected to find, data check suggests.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Familiar faces
"Super recognizers" never forget a visage, an unusual ability that can be put to good use.
By Susan Gaidos -
Psychology
What Makes a Hero?
The Surprising Science of Selflessness by Elizabeth Svoboda.
By Sid Perkins -
Psychology
Blood marker may predict suicide
People who killed themselves had higher levels of a gene involved in cell death.
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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.
By Bruce Bower -
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.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Ratio for a good life exposed as ‘nonsense’
A heralded calculation of people’s ability to flourish is a mathematical mirage, researchers say.
By Bruce Bower -
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.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Dog sniffs out grammar
After years of word training, a canine intuitively figures out how simple sentences work.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Closed Thinking
Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Brain training technique gets a critique
In a new study, a popular style of memory workout leaves reasoning and mental agility flat.
By Bruce Bower