Archive for April 2013

Toddlers are afraid of falling but not of heights

When we adults are confronted by a bridge, we're concerned not just by its width and sturdiness, but also by the height of the drop bene...

The BPS Research Digest makes its radio debut tonight on BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind programme. Tune in at 9pm (BST) to hear the Di...

In 2004, in Silicon Valley, Google posted a huge billboard ad featuring a mathematical problem. The answer led to a web address with yet ano...

In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week : 1. " Research suggests that mental illnesses lie along a...

Why are most people in the world religious? Some say it is because we're naturally predisposed to believe in a god or gods and that reli...

10 eye-catching studies that I didn't get the chance to report on in full : How do our brain hemispheres cooperate to avoid false memori...

Most research into CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) for teenagers has focused on whether it works or not, with largely positive results. ...

Bankers, investors, stock market traders and their ilk have been vilified in recent years, in large part because the global financial crisis...

update : this competition is now closed and the winners have been contacted. Thanks for your entries. We have five copies to give away of O...

In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week : 1. The publishers Wiley have teamed up with TED to present a...

Young children's instinct for group membership can be exploited to boost their learning performance. That's according to a new study...

Psychologically empowering to women? The late Margaret Thatcher - Britain's first and, so far, only female Prime Minister - is criticise...

People who worry habitually about separation and abandonment - the "anxiously attached" - tend to be highly skilled at lie detecti...

In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week : 1. Stunning video of a whole mouse brain rendered entirely t...

Psychology has had a torrid time of late, with fraud scandals and question marks about the replicability of many of the discipline's ...