Archive for August 2013

Guilt is catching

Shaking hands with a cheat or thief, or merely sitting in a chair they used, is likely to make you experience feelings of guilt. That's ...

Revenge fantasies aren't just satisfying, research shows they can have meaningful therapeutic benefits for victims of violence and abuse...

The capacity for animosity between child siblings is legendary. Psychologist Judy Dunn has described the " devastating lack of inhibiti...

We tend to think of conspiracy theorists as being fixated on far-fetched explanations. In fact they are not so much concerned with providing...

The worlds of business, office design and psychology really need to get their heads together. Large open-plan offices have become the norm a...

Psychologists have devised two new scales for assessing people's belief in pure evil and pure good - characteristics they say have impor...

Researchers have been taking a keen interest lately in how the brain represents the internal state of the body - a process called interocept...

Bauer, Bond, Salt and their real-life counterparts have ample experience making tough choices between risky options. You'd think this wo...

In case you missed them, 10 of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week : Steve Pinker wrote a magisterial essay this w...

Young children are surprisingly discerning. By age three they are already more trusting of claims made by nice people. Slightly older and th...

Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut : " In two experiments we showed that exposure to an incidental black and white...

A new study suggests that people feel more comfortable talking about private matters in a larger room at a larger desk. It's a result wi...

An evidence-backed way to break habits involves forming what's known as " if-then " implementation intentions that target the ...

In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week : You know the Prisoners' Dilemma game tha...

Hypnosis is synonymous with stage entertainment where the performer puts volunteers from the audience into a trance and commands them to do ...