Archive for January 2014

"Placebo sleep" can boost your mental performance

Believing that you've had a good night's sleep can influence your mental performance, regardless of how much sleep you actually had....

We trawl the world's psychology journals so you don't have to : Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning (The Journal of Positive ...

Judit Polgár, chess grandmaster An analysis of girls' performances in 12 US school chess tournaments has found they tend to underperform...

Public surveys show many people view suicide as morally wrong. When you ask them why, they usually refer to the harm caused to the deceased...

Have you ever dreamt of arguing with your partner, or dreamt they were unfaithful, and then - irrational as it may be - found yourself in a ...

10 eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: We perceive people we trust as more physically similar to ourselves " Couga...

Damage wreaked by Hurricane Sandy at Bay Head, New Jersey. Image: Skrum / Getty Images . As a tragedy unfolds, only the callous or gauche w...

Twin sisters posing at the annual double take parade in 2007, in Twinsburg, Ohio - the largest annual gathering of twins in the world. ( Pho...

Do you have an expensive but uncomfortable pair of shoes or jeans at the back of your cupboard that you never ever wear, but you simply cann...

Image: Tucia / Flickr Crying is an important survival behaviour for babies - the world is informed that they are in distress and need prompt...

"What does coffee smell like?" "What about lemon?" These questions are tricky for English speakers to answer because we ...

Imagine your partner has just been arrested for drink driving. You're walking down the street not long after and suddenly you see a larg...

You could travel the world with an infant aged under 3 and it's almost guaranteed that when they get older they won't remember a sin...

Traditionally, when a person says they can hear voices that don't exist in external reality (not to be confused with inner speaking ), p...