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Cap’n Crunch Is Looking at You
The New York Times: Walking through the cereal aisle, you would be justified in feeling you were being watched. According to a study published in the journal Environment and Behavior, the characters on cereal boxes
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The Ways Food Tricks Our Brains
The Atlantic: In 1998, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania published a study that might strike you as kind of mean. They took two people with severe amnesia, who couldn’t remember events occurring more than
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Individual Brain Activity Predicts Tendency to Succumb to Daily Temptations
Activity in areas of the brain related to reward and self-control may offer neural markers that predict whether people are likely to resist or give in to temptations, like food.
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offers advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of research or topic in psychological science that has been
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The Psychology of a Memorable Lunch
The Huffington Post: It’s about 11 in the morning, and I’m already thinking about lunch. I’m at my desk in my downtown office, so I have lots of options. I could go to that new
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Hungry? Avoid serious conversations with your spouse.
The Washington Post: Raise your hand if you’ve had a stupid fight with your husband or wife when you were hungry and cranky. Right, I thought so. Well, new research backs up the idea that
