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Baby’s Palate And Food Memories Shaped Before Birth
NPR: Want your child to love veggies? Start early. Very early. Research shows that what a woman eats during pregnancy not only nourishes her baby in the womb, but may shape food preferences later in
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Md. couponing expert teaches the art and science of saving through clipping
The Washington Post: “Do y’all know what the Clipper is?” Kimberly Pepper-Hoctor asked her class one recent night in a library meeting room about an hour south of Washington. A woman sitting near the front
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Flagging up bias
The Economist: FLAGS are powerful symbols. They appear on ships, parliaments, schools, lapels and even—sometimes—underwear. Exactly what effect they have on people’s behaviour, though, is seldom a topic of scientific inquiry. Melissa Ferguson of Cornell
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Avoir un animal de compagnie n’est pas si bon qu’on le pense pour la santé
MSN France: Howard Herzog, professeur de psychologie à l’université Western Carolina (Caroline du Nord, sud-est), affirme dans cette étude publiée dans le numéro d’août de Tendances en Psychologie (Current Directions in Psychological Science), que toutes
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Getting to The Heart of The Appeal of Videogames
San Francisco Chronicle: People spend 3 billion hours a week playing videogames but little is known scientifically about why they are actually fun in the first place. The vast majority of research into videogames has
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Will Pets Give You Good Health and Longevity?
Yahoo Taiwan: (法新社華盛頓3日電) 長期以來,寵物飼主被洗腦認為,比起沒養寵物者,自己更快樂、健康又長壽,但美國最新研究指出,這些飼主可能只是「自我感覺良好」。 西卡羅來納大學(Western Carolina University)心理學教授赫佐格 (Howard Herzog)表示,過去針對飼養寵物能否促進健康和長壽的研究,卻發現「夾雜衝突性結果」。 赫佐格在8月號「心理科學最新指南」(Current Directions in Psychological Science)中指出:「無庸置疑,飼養寵物對部分民眾有益,但『養寵物的人比沒養寵物者還健康、快樂或更長壽』的論述,缺乏充足佐證。」 阅读更多/Read more: Yahoo Taiwan