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Detecting Sickness By Smell
Humans are able to smell sickness in someone whose immune system is highly active, a study shows.
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Students Remember More With Personalized Review, Even After Classes End
A computer-based individualized study schedule boosted students’ recall on subsequent tests.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Loss Attention in a Dual-Task Setting Eldad Yechiam and Guy Hochman Can losses actually make you perform better? The authors tested the hypothesis known as the loss-attention model, in which losses draw attention to the current task and, as a result, increase sensitivity to the task's incentive structure. Participants performed a decision-making task involving gains or losses. The task was performed alone (single-task condition) or with a secondary task (dual-task condition).
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Multiple Levels of Bilingual Language Control: Evidence From Language Intrusions in Reading Aloud Tamar H. Gollan, Elizabeth R. Schotter, Joanne Gomez, Mayra Murillo, and Keith Rayner Bilingual individuals rarely make cross-language intrusion errors (i.e., unintentional language switches), which makes this phenomenon difficult to study. The authors examined how bilinguals control their language selection by examining the occurrence of these errors in mixed-language paragraphs.
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When Charitable Acts Are ‘Tainted’ by Personal Gain
We tend to perceive a person’s charitable efforts as less moral if the do-gooder reaps a reward from the effort, according to new research. This phenomenon — which researchers call the “tainted-altruism effect” — suggests
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How You Practice Matters for Learning a Skill Quickly
Practice alone doesn’t make perfect, but learning can be optimized if you practice in the right way, according to new research based on online gaming data from more than 850,000 people. The research, led by psychological scientist Tom Stafford of the University of Sheffield (UK), suggests that the way you practice is just as important as how often you practice when it comes to learning quickly. The new findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Stafford and Michael Dewar from The New York Times Research and Development Lab analyzed data from 854,064 people playing an online game called Axon.
