Psychology
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‘Gorilla man’ goes unheard
Paying attention to what others say can make listeners totally unaware of unexpected sounds.
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Digital bounty hunters unleashed
Internet technique shows promise as fast way to mobilize huge problem-solving teams.
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Learning to walk on err
Flub-inducing treadmill tasks aid motor learning, with rehab implications.
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Teen daters pal up to the bottle
Buddies of boyfriends and girlfriends push teens toward or away from booze.
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Same face, different person
Photos of a stranger’s mug can look like many unfamiliar people to an observer, complicating facial recognition research.
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Men’s spatial superiority takes cultural cues
Some societies may nurture comparable spatial skills in males and females.
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Moms talk, daughters’ hormones listen
A familiar voice, but not instant messaging, may trigger a kind of hormonal reassurance in girls.
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Kids share, chimps stash
Divvying up goods comes easily to 3-year-old kids but not to adult chimps, a finding with evolutionary implications.
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Narcissists need no reality check
Masters of vanity know they’re arrogant and disliked, but see own bigheadedness as justified.
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Sleeping babies learn in an eyeblink
To learn about spoken words and other sounds, 1-month-old babies sleep on it.
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Math disability tied to bad number sense
Children who don’t grasp arithmetic at all, unlike below-average students, have little feel for estimating quantities.
