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Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect When it Comes to Understanding Risk
People aren’t very good at making decisions that involve risk. Many people are afraid of airplanes, although accidents are extremely rare; some people even drive to avoid flying, putting themselves at more risk. A new
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People Mimic Each Other, But We Aren’t Chameleons
It’s easy to pick up on the movements that other people make—scratching your head, crossing your legs. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that
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Impatient? It May Hurt Your Credit Score
Forbes: Your propensity to wait (or not) is also reflected in your credit score, according to a study from researchers at Columbia and Stanford published online in Psychological Science. Patient people tend to have higher
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UA study: Divorce can raise risk of early death
USA Today: Be careful. Your health could plummet as if you had taken up smoking, become overweight or started drinking excessively. A new review by the University of Arizona of more than 30 published studies
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Kinder mit geringerem IQ neigen später eher zum Rassismus
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Die Einstellungen eines Menschen lassen sich bereits im Kindesalter vorhersagen. Wer als Zehnjähriger in Intelligenztests schlecht abschneidet, pflegt als Erwachsener eher rassistische Vorurteile, berichten Psychologen um Gordon Hodson von der Brock University in
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Positive shrinking: Writing about the things that mean most can help us lose weight
Daily Mail: The secret to slimming could be as simple as picking up a pen and writing. In a remarkable indication of the potential power of positive thinking in dieting, researchers found that women who