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How Humans Move With the Crowd
This field of study, Warren says, converged on the conclusion that complex group movements in humans and animals seem to follow three simple rules.
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Your Hands May Reveal the Struggle to Maintain Self-Control
Watching people’s hands as they choose between long-term and short-term options offers a new approach to studying self-control.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring the neural representation of interpretive frameworks, motor planning for joint action, and the influence of attention on spatial resolution.
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Spelke Awarded Heineken Prize
APS William James Fellow Elizabeth S. Spelke, a Harvard University psychological scientist widely known for her research on the cognitive development of infants, recently received the C. L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science from
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Yours or Mine? How We Handle Objects Depends on Who Owns Them
From scissors and staplers to car keys and cell phones, we pass objects to other people every day. We often try to pass the objects so that the handle or other useful feature is facing
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The ‘Stubborn’ Cerebellum
Psychological scientists don’t typically describe brain areas as fickle, two-faced, or agreeable, but APS William James Fellow Richard B. Ivry explains why he ascribes a specific personality trait to the region that controls our sensorimotor system.
