Archive for April 2014

'What else can you expect from a Crappo?'

Which slur is worse: “Cracker” or the “N-Word?” After a July 2013 debate on CNN in which a panel discussed this exact question, researchers...

How much money do you think you would have to make each year to land yourself in the infamous One Per Cent of salary earners? According to a...

Implicit attitudes are one of the hottest topics in social psychology. Now a massive new study directly compares methods for changing them. ...

The cognitive cost or benefit of booze depends on your genes, suggests a new study which uses a unique longitudinal data set. Inside the lab...

Lady Luck is fickle, but many of us believe we can read her mood. A new study of one year's worth of bets made via an online betting sit...

There has long been a tradition of using photographs to capture, reveal, and expose. A photograph has the ability to arouse emotion – oftent...

We’ve often heard someone’s memory described as 'weak' or 'strong'. But with the majority of psychological memory models dra...

If you were to pick up the flagship journal from a discipline that is foreign to you and flip to an article at random, how much do you think...

Can making faces mask your personality? According to a group of University of Glasgow psychologists, Daniel Gill and colleagues, it can. Wri...

Are you a racist? Most likely, your answer is no – and perhaps you find the very notion offensive. But according to two Cardiff University p...

Human memory has a pervasive emotional bias – and it’s probably a good thing. That’s according to psychologists Timothy Ritchie and colleagu...

We’re often bombarded with panicky stories in the news about the dangers of letting children watch too much television or play too many vide...