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Internet Use in Class Tied to Lower Test Scores
Students who surfed the web in a college course had lower scores on the final exam than did those who didn’t go online.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring whether a single-nucleotide polymorphism on the oxytocin receptor gene is linked with face recognition and how people map spatial relations when they take another person’s perspective.
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Bad People Are Disgusting, Bad Actions Are Angering
A person’s character, more so than their actions, determines whether we find immoral acts to be ‘disgusting,’ studies show.
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Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences
Sentencing data shows that judges in the US tend to give defendants longer sentences the day after switching to daylight saving time compared with other days of the year.
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Gesturing Can Boost Children’s Creative Thinking
Two experiments suggest that encouraging children to use gestures as they think can help them come up with more creative ideas.
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Illusion Reveals that the Brain Fills in Peripheral Vision
What we see in the periphery, just outside the direct focus of the eye, may sometimes be a visual illusion, research shows.
