Archive for March 2014

We were promised jetpacks! …

… and sofas you could hose down ! It’s always entertaining to consider our future thinking of yesteryear with 20:20 hindsight. So as we awai...

Was it a budget to 'win grey votes and capture the spirit of Thatcherism' ? Or a ‘Lamborghini ride that says power to the people’ ? ...

As Western policymakers, analysts and journalists continue to ponder Vladimir Putin's aims in invading and occupying the Crimean peninsu...

As relatives and friends endure the agonising wait for news of their loved ones, more than a fortnight after the disappearance of Flight MH3...

So it's the morning after the night before, when I raised a glass to my departing friend and colleague Dr Christian Jarrett . As Editor ...

The creator of the Research Digest blog is moving on ... We had a habit, my wife and I, of walking on Saturday afternoons along the pretty n...

Back in 2012, US researchers showed that when people used their second, non-native language, they were less prone to a mental bias known as...

This week I'm leaving my position as Research Digest editor. Taking one last look back at the archives, these were my ten most popular ...

The fate of our earliest memories is something of an enigma. As adults, most of us are unable to recall memories from before we were age thr...

Image: Greg Peverill-Conti / Flickr You know when you want a friend or partner to tell you, honestly, how you look in a new outfit? A new st...

Numerous personality studies have found the same pattern time and again – extraverts tend to be happier than introverts. But why? A popular ...

From Alsmith & Longo 2014 Although you probably consider all of your body is yours, if you're like most people, you also have a feel...

Hospitals can be strange, foreboding places for young children. One idea to help reduce their anxiety is to invite clowns onto the ward to f...

Children aren't as gullible as you might think. Early in life they display a discernment that psychologists call "epistemic vigilan...

We often dream about what we've been doing and who we've been with, so it should come as little surprise to discover many psychother...