Archive for February 2015

Link feast

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Colour of This Dres...

Psychotherapy works for most people, but there's a sizeable group for whom it's ineffective, or worse still, harmful . A new study c...

Video trailers can be used to predict which lecturers are the best teachers, and which students they are especially suited to. In the near f...

When discussing Milgram's notorious experiments, in which participants were instructed to give increasingly dangerous electric shocks to...

Recruiters are poor at inferring an applicant’s personality from their resume, but that doesn’t stop them from jumping to conclusions on the...

Nearly half of the US population wrongly believes the flu vaccine can give you flu, but correcting this error has the opposite of the desire...

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so : My Own Life Oliver Sacks in the NYT on learning he has te...

To help people who perform non-lethal self-harm, such as cutting and burning themselves, we need a better understanding of the thoughts and ...

People show better understanding of their own knowledge when threatened with large penalties for wrong answers. There are some walks of lif...

Celebrating psychology's power couples The detective work of science can be ridiculously addictive. Connecting with a non-scientist who ...

Science suggests a funnier workplace should be a more effective one, encouraging positive mood and a playful, open approach. But much of the...

Forgetting information that we save to computer could have its advantages A few years ago, researchers demonstrated that people had poorer ...