Your friend walks into a bar to meet you for happy hour. He sidles up to the bar and orders a drink -- does that make you more likely to get a drink yourself? According to new findings, genetics may determine the extent to which you are influenced by social drinking cues -- signals such as advertisements, drinks placed on a bar, and seeing other people around you drinking.
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July 23, 2010
Can I buy you a drink? Genetics may determine sensitivity to other people’s drinking behavior
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March 5, 2010
Am happy, will be paranoid/ gullible; am sad, will be realistic
Image via WikipediaHappiness may lead to mood-congruent effects of increasing trust(a positive emotion itself) in interpersonal situations; an alternative theory is that happiness leads to top-down processing , thus relying more on activated schema , stereotypes etc and thus leading to more trust when trust schema or cues are salient and distrust when untrustworthy schema More >Rating: 0.0/1
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December 9, 2009
Don’t i know you? How cues and context kick-start memory recall
A new study shows hippocampus is only involved in memory retrieval when there are clues to trigger context.
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December 7, 2009
Study Shows Smiles And Scowls Provide Cues For Gender Identification
"Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions. In two studies, researchers asked subjects to identify the sex of a series of faces...
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November 18, 2009
20-Year Study Shows Lack Of Fear In Children Precedes Adult Crime
Persons convicted of serious crimes by age 23 did not have the normal heightened response to cues associated with loud, unpleasant noise when they were tested at 3 years of age, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
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October 28, 2009
Hypnosis: Response expectancies?
Let’s explore the proposed mechanisms in hypnosis as I wander through the subject this week.According to some researchers, response expectancies, or ‘the expectation of one's own non-volitional reactions to situational cues’ are thought to play a major part in both hypnosis and placebo responding. Let’s translate that: a person’s belief that they will respond to [...
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September 22, 2009
Race Has Little Effect On People’s Ability To Spot Family Resemblances
Scientists have ample evidence that individuals use a variety of cues to identify their own kin. People can also detect resemblances in families other than their own. A new study shows that their success in doing so is the same, whether or not those families are the same race as themselves.
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September 10, 2009
Nicotine Creates Stronger Memories, Cues To Drug Use
Ever wonder why former smokers miss lighting up most when they are in a bar or after a meal with friends? Researchers say nicotine, the addictive component in cigarettes, "tricks" the brain into creating memory associations between environmental cues and smoking behavior.
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May 12, 2009
Body Movements Can Influence Problem Solving, Researchers Report
Swinging their arms helped participants in a new study solve a problem whose solution involved swinging strings, researchers report, demonstrating that the brain can use bodily cues to help understand and solve complex problems.
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