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The (Really Scary) Invisible Gorilla
The Huffington Post: The Invisible Gorilla is part of the popular culture nowadays, thanks largely to a widely-read 2010 book of that title. In that book, cognitive psychologists Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris popularized a Visit Page
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‘B’ is for orange: Synesthesia linked to alphabet magnets in small study
NBC: While Nathan Witthoft was earning his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he met a woman with color-grapheme synesthesia, a neurological condition where people see letters and numbers in color. Most color-grapheme synesthetes perceive Visit Page
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science. Attentional-Tracking Acuity Is Modulated by Illusory Changes in Perceived Speed Welber Marinovic, Samuel L. Pearce, and Derek H. Arnold Researchers know that attentional tracking is affected Visit Page
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To land that job, be among the first interviewed, study shows
TODAY: Want to ace that interview and increase your chances of actually landing the job? A new study says the best thing to do is interview on a different day than your strongest competition. Or Visit Page
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Lying becomes automatic with practice, study says
NBC: You can get better at lying with more practice, a recent study suggests. Researchers found that with a little training, people can learn to tell a lie more automatically and efficiently. It gets easier Visit Page
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Best (and Worst) Ways to Study for a Test
Yahoo: Want to ace a school exam or bone up for a work presentation? Forget the highlighter, and make yourself some flashcards instead. That’s the upshot of a recent report in Psychological Science in the Visit Page
