Archive for January 2015

Link feast

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Finding The Golden Thread of Consciousness "... the pl...

You watch with envy as your long-time colleague gets yet another performance bonus - something you've strived for but never obtained. No...

Introverts have received a lot of positive press in recent years thanks to the run-away success of Susan Cain's book Quiet: The Power of...

First impressions lead to a multitude of assumptions, and trustworthiness is one of them : faces with v-shaped eyebrows and frowning mouths...

Imagine if the words that came out of your mouth were spoken by another person. Would anyone notice? This idea was explored by social psycho...

When we’re stressed out and feeling threatened, our priority becomes self-preservation. According to new research, this defensive mode even ...

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so : Why are men more likely than women to take their own lives...

I've started playing in a higher division in my local table-tennis league. I'm winning games less, but enjoying the experience more....

We know that possessing certain personal traits can help people do better in life – by knuckling down, making the right connections or havin...

Before you speak to an audience, can you first talk yourself out of feeling nervous? One step towards this strategy is to find out how confi...

On being told physics could undermine religious claims, believers said faith was more about living a moral life It's great to have facts...

With over a billion users, Facebook is changing the social life of our species. Cultural commentators ponder the effects. Is it bringing us ...

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so : To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This Mandy Catron fell in ...