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Is Income Inequality Destroying Trust In Our Society?
Fast Company: It makes sense that trust in corporations and government would plummet after a devastating global recession. But the idea of social capital–a concept that the World Bank started researching in the ‘90s–is a much bigger societal
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Children capable of learning to control junk food cravings: study
NY Daily News: For children, the lure of cookies and fast food is distinctly more powerful than for adolescents and adults, although children’s cognitive wiring is well suited to train such cravings, according to researchers
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You’re Expecting the Wrong Things to Make You Happy
Inc.: If you want to take a selfie to record a happy moment, you’ll probably reach for your phone at that awesome concert you’ve been dying to see or on a memorable night out with an
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Hand Size Appears to Stay Constant, Provides Natural ‘Ruler’
People tend to perceive their dominant hand as staying relatively the same size even when it’s magnified, lending support to the idea that we use our hand as a constant perceptual “ruler” to measure the
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: White Matter Morphometric Changes Uniquely Predict Children’s Reading Acquisition Chelsea A. Myers, Maaike Vandermosten, Emily A. Farris, Roeland Hancock, Paul Gimenez, Jessica M. Black, Brandi Casto, Miroslav
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La douleur renforce la cohésion dans le groupe
Slate France: Partager une expérience douloureuse peut créer un sentiment de solidarité au sein d’un groupe, rapporte une étude publiée dans Psychological Science. En effet, la douleur pourrait avoir des conséquences sociales positives car elle agit «comme une sorte