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New Research From Psychological Science
Learned Predictiveness Speeds Visual Processing Jennifer L. O’Brien and Jane E. Raymond Can learning the predictive value of a cue for a specific outcome affect the visual processing of that cue? Participants were presented with
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Something for the weekend
Financial Times: It is estimated that this year the worldwide spend on advertising will be around $530bn. For advertisers it is vital that they spend their money wisely – targeting the right consumer to get
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Inside a Child’s Mind — Research Findings from Psychological Science
Developmental psychology researchers have long known that children aren’t simply mini-adults – their minds and brains work in fundamentally different ways. Exploring those differences can help us understand how kids think and behave and can
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Talking to Yourself: Not So Crazy After All
TIME: In the privacy of our minds, we all talk to ourselves — an inner monologue that might seem rather pointless. As one scientific paper on self-talk asks: “What can we tell ourselves that we
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The Virtues of Daydreaming
The New Yorker: Humans are a daydreaming species. According to a recent study led by the Harvard psychologists Daniel Gilbert and Matthew A. Killingsworth, people let their minds wander forty-seven per cent of the time
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Macho Guys Can Be Surprisingly Cooperative, Study Finds
LiveScience: Movie star Chris Hemsworth plays a macho guy as both the huntsman in “Snow White and the Huntsman” and Thor in “The Avengers.” But new research suggests that men with Hemsworth’s broad-faced, square-jawed look
