Psychology

  1. Anthropology

    Numbers beyond words

    New research with Amazonian villagers suggests that their language lacks number words but that they still comprehend precise quantities of objects.

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  2. Humans

    Symbolic snacks

    Capuchin monkeys can reason with tokens as they do with different foods, demonstrating a basic capacity for thinking symbolically.

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  3. Animals

    Courting both ways

    Some extra dopamine, and male fruit flies like boys too.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Mondo bizarro

    Psychiatrists measuring the degree of similarity between dreams and psychotic ruminations report some strange features common to both.

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  5. Psychology

    Smarten up

    Taxing memory training produces at least short-term increases in a critical type of intelligence.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Asperger’s syndrome may not lead to lack of empathy

    People with high-functioning autism respond to others' pain, two studies show.

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  7. Psychology

    Democracy Threatened by Lack of Neighborliness

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