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A Big Year for Psychological Science on the Big Screen
From Oscar nods to the festival circuit, movies featuring psychological science took Hollywood by storm in 2015. At least four APS fellows were inspirations for the big screen this year in three award-winning films that
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The science of disgust: Why we (most of us) hate liver, brussels sprouts and cricket flour
The Washington Post: Whether you consider yourself a picky eater or an adventurous one, just about everyone has those foods they loathe or just won’t touch. Polarizing foods, such as cilantro, mushrooms, or olives, can
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A Conversation With the Psychologist Behind ‘Inside Out’
Pacific Standard: Pixar has a proud tradition of taking things that are incapable of expressing human emotion—robots, toys, rats, cars—and imagining a world where they can, in fact, feel. The studio’s most recent effort, the
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The Science of ‘Inside Out’
The New York Times: FIVE years ago, the writer and director Pete Docter of Pixar reached out to us to talk over an idea for a film, one that would portray how emotions work inside
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Gross ads disgust consumers into action
USA Today: If you don’t like stories that are totally gross, stop reading right now. Did you stop reading? Of course not. And it works the same way for advertisements, marketers are discovering. That, at
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BEURK – Le dégoût est un sentiment utile
Le Monde: Longtemps laissé de côté par les chercheurs, le dégoût entame depuis quelques années une phase de réhabilitation. The New York Times le compare ainsi à “la Cendrillon” des émotions. Et “si ses méchantes sœurs
