Archive for July 2014

The voices heard by people with schizophrenia are friendlier in India and Africa, than in the US

When a patient with schizophrenia hears voices in their head, is the experience shaped by the culture they live in? Tanya Luhrmann and her ...

For many years, the hormone oxytocin was caricatured as the source of all human goodness - trust, altruism, love, and morality. Among the fi...

Although it might seem a good idea to work with other people to remember important information, the evidence suggests that this typically is...

How well can psychotherapists and their clients judge from personal experience whether therapy has been effective? Not well at all, accordin...

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week: Getting Over Procrastination Maria Konnikova with an overview of ...

We expect of our jurors and judges calm, reasoned evaluation of the evidence. Of course we know the reality is rather different - prejudice ...

It’s hard to find the best person for the job through an interview. New research uncovers part of the problem: judging a candidate’s calibre...

Zimbardo speaking in '09 Conducted in 1971, the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has acquired a mythical status and provided the inspir...

Piercings convey low intelligence and greater creativity, according to research You’ll have had this experience - you meet a new person and ...

New research suggests that humans recognise facial emotional expressions in a dynamic way. We search for urgent signals first, before seekin...

It's become a mantra of the modern Western world that the ultimate aim of life is to achieve happiness. Self-help blog posts on how to ...

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week : The Trouble With Brain Science The problem, argues Gary Marcus, ...

A willingness to take risks enhances men's sex appeal. This much we know from past research . What's not clear, is whether this is ...

Participants scored higher on neuroticism & lower on extraversion when they were sad Except in extreme cases of illness or trauma, we us...