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Walking backwards boosts creativity

The established routines and habits of everyday life can stifle our ability to think creatively. That's according to a new study that...
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How time pressure improves decision making in emergencies

A new simulation of a complex, realistic disaster event suggests that time pressure facilitates better decision-making among emergency respo...
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Could you tell the difference between a person's memory and their imagination?

If I gave you a written description of an object – let's say a boat – would you be able to judge whether the author had written about th...
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Why it's important that employers let staff personalise their workspaces

The sparring mitt, yellow stitches spelling "SLUGGER" casually lying on the desk. The Mathlete trophy on a high shelf. A Ganesha s...
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10 hellish psychology studies you'll be glad not to have participated in

Many psychology studies involve nothing more challenging for participants than sitting down with a short paper questionnaire and ticking off...
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Textbook coverage of this classic social psychology study has become increasingly biased

One of the pairs of cards used in Asch's 1950s research. Image from Wikipedia .  Like Zimbardo's prison study and Milgram's so-c...
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Working at a treadmill desk boosts your memory and concentration, researchers claim

Image from  Labonté-LeMoyne et al . We're told sitting is the new smoking and that we should consider working at standing desks, or perh...
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Team effectiveness is disproportionately influenced by your group's best performer or "extra-miler"

The quality of a team's best performer (the "extra miler") is diagnostic of the group's overall effectiveness. In The Hobb...
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Writing about your emotional pain could make you feel worse, unless you do it with “self-compassion”

By guest blogger Temma Ehrenfeld Some of us tend to brood over painful experiences. Others distract themselves, taking on more work, for ex...
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Psychologists use magic to study the illusory feeling of free choice

Most of the time, when a magician asks you to "pick a card" she makes it feel as though you have a free choice, but you don't ...
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