Archive for September 2013

Given a warning, we can shield ourselves from subliminal messages

Ad-man James Vicary generated excitement and discomfort in equal measure back in the 50s when he boasted about the success of his "subl...

No bugs or humans were hurt in the course of this research but the participants didn't know that at the time. Psychologist Erin Buckels ...

We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to. Here are the latest journal special issues in psychology: Social media as a rese...

Is there anyone lonelier than the dismissed batsman walking back to the pavilion? What does he or she say to themselves to ease the disappoi...

A false memory feels to its owner like a recollection of a real experience, but is in fact a construction of the mind. False memories are pr...

It's hard to fathom how our subjective lives can be rooted in the spongy flesh of brain matter. Yet the reality of the brain-mind link w...

Laboratory research pioneered by psychologist Carol Dweck has shown the short-term benefits of praising children for their efforts rather t...

Eminent scientists have condemned films that are sceptical about climate change. After airing of the Great Global Warming Swindle in 2007, ...

We're all familiar with the good cop, bad cop interrogation technique so often portrayed in TV and film. In reality, at least in the UK,...

There's an ethical consensus in medicine that it's wrong to give patients with physical illness false hope. But what about patients ...

10 years of the Research Digest This is the sixth and last in a series of self-help posts drawing on the BPS Research Digest archive to mark...

10 years of the Research Digest Work when you're groggy . A lot of research into creative thinking is about finding the conditions that ...

10 years of the Research Digest Time your boasts . No one likes a show-off. But to get ahead in this world, you're going to need to let ...

10 years of the Research Digest You can will yourself happier . Nathaniel Hawthorne likened happiness to a butterfly, "which, when purs...