Psychology
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Psychology
Visions For All
People who report vivid religious experiences may hold clues to nonpsychotic hallucinations.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Pi master’s storied recall
Remembering more than 60,000 consecutive numbers takes exhaustive practice at spinning yarns.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Kids flex cultural muscles
Young children, but not chimps or monkeys, generate collective leaps of knowledge.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Babies catch words early
Vocabulary learning starts when babies can barely babble.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Vodka delivers shot of creativity
Alcohol intoxication raises men’s performance on a test of verbal ingenuity.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Fighting willpower’s catch-22
Avoiding daily temptations works better than using willpower, which has oddly unintended effects.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Babies lip-read before talking
Tots acquire the gift of gab by matching adults’ mouth movements to spoken words.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Big score for the hot hand
Hot hands exist in professional volleyball and influence game strategy.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Europeans’ heartfelt ignorance
Many people in nine countries don't know how to recognize or react to heart attacks and strokes.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Face deficit holds object lesson
A brain-damaged man yields controversial clues to how people identify complex objects.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Babies may benefit from moms’ lasting melancholy
Fetuses pick up on maternal depression and thrive after birth if mothers don’t get better, a new study suggests.
By Bruce Bower -
Psychology
Skateboarders rock physics
Skateboarding develops intuition about slope speeds unavailable to most people.
By Bruce Bower