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Category: Psychology
Psychologists from Purdue University have found that the success rate of American football field kicks directly affects perception of goal size
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Category: Psychology
Dutch researchers report that ambient temperature affects the way we perceive social proximity to other people, as well as the language used to describe them
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Category: Neuroscience
A study by psychologists from Keele University shows that swearing after we hurt ourselves reduces the amount of pain we feel
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Category: Neuroscience
New research shows that hypnosis can control movements by influencing the internal representations of the self generated through suggestion and imagery
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Category: Neuroscience
A new study shows that remembering the past and imagining future events activate distinct subsystems within a core brain network
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Category: Neuroscience
What did you do on March 13th, 1985? People with hyperthymesia (which has been characterized only recently, and of which just a handful of cases have so far been reported) would likely provide a vivid account of what happened on...
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Category: Neuroscience
A new study shows that the emotions evoked by music can be transferred to the sense of vision to influence the perception of facial expressions
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Category: Neuroscience
Italian researchers show that looking at photos of faces being touched enhances the perception of touch on the observer's face when the photos are of people who belong the same ethnic or political group
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Category: Psychology
As I mentioned last month, the British Psychological Society (BPS) recently commissioned a report into the implications of memory research for the legal profession. The report, written by the Memory and Law Working Party, a research board established by the...
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Category: Psychology
The idea that memory is reconstructive and not reproductive - which dates back at least to the 1930s, when Frederic Bartlett published his classic book Remembering - has profound implications for the criminal justice system, as it raises questions about...
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