Psychology

  1. Psychology

    Vodka delivers shot of creativity

    Alcohol intoxication raises men’s performance on a test of verbal ingenuity.

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  2. Psychology

    Fighting willpower’s catch-22

    Avoiding daily temptations works better than using willpower, which has oddly unintended effects.

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  3. Psychology

    Babies lip-read before talking

    Tots acquire the gift of gab by matching adults’ mouth movements to spoken words.

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  4. Psychology

    Big score for the hot hand

    Hot hands exist in professional volleyball and influence game strategy.

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  5. Psychology

    Europeans’ heartfelt ignorance

    Many people in nine countries don't know how to recognize or react to heart attacks and strokes.

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  6. Psychology

    Face deficit holds object lesson

    A brain-damaged man yields controversial clues to how people identify complex objects.

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  7. 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.

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  8. Psychology

    Skateboarders rock physics

    Skateboarding develops intuition about slope speeds unavailable to most people.

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  9. Psychology

    ‘Gorilla man’ goes unheard

    Paying attention to what others say can make listeners totally unaware of unexpected sounds.

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  10. Psychology

    Digital bounty hunters unleashed

    Internet technique shows promise as fast way to mobilize huge problem-solving teams.

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  11. Psychology

    Learning to walk on err

    Flub-inducing treadmill tasks aid motor learning, with rehab implications.

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  12. Psychology

    Teen daters pal up to the bottle

    Buddies of boyfriends and girlfriends push teens toward or away from booze.

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