Archive for 2013

Your at-a-glance guide to psychology in 2013 - Part 2

Part 1 Jan to June is here . JULY UCL cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott was among the scholars unhappy about the call for the introdu...

JAN The year began with fall-out from the final report into the fraud of social psychologist Diederik Stapel. The scale was shocking - 55 ...

The number of teenagers deliberately hurting themselves is on the increase. For example, the latest data for England show that over 13,000 1...

1. Want people to trust you? Try apologising for the rain . "Superfluous apologies represent a powerful and easy-to-use tool for socia...

When asking someone to do something unethical, we underestimate what a difficult position we've put them in. New research suggests that ...

Health experts say we aren't eating enough fruit. Perhaps psychology can help. Try this. Picture yourself eating a portion of fruit tomo...

It's the season for Christmas book lists and we've trawled through them, looking for the psychology-themed tomes earning a recommend...

Odette Krempin’s Charity Works – Photo Courtesy: Jose_ugs For some it's lying on a sun-drenched beach sipping sangria, for others it...

After looking at sexually arousing images, men, but not women, become more impatient for financial rewards and more willing to take financia...

Studying the ways people talk to themselves in their own minds is incredibly tricky because as soon as you ask them about it, you're lik...

I remember, aged five or so, a friend and I were the cool police motorcyclists from the TV show CHiPs . Our props were limited to the usual ...

Our pick of the 10 best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so : Why the world’s most talented dreamers may hold the sec...

It's only in the last few years that researchers have documented the existence of a select group of individuals who have memories like a...