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July 16, 2010

Part of the brain that tracks limbs in space discovered

Filed under: Psychology News — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 5:00 am
Scientists have discovered the part of the brain that tracks the position of our limbs as we move through space. When a mosquito lands on your hand, you can rapidly and effortlessly make a movement of the other hand to brush it away, even in darkness. But performing this seemingly simple action involves a surprisingly complex coordination of different types of sensory information in order for you

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March 5, 2010

Darkness encourages unethical behaviour even when it makes no difference to anonymity

Imagine a man sits alone, hunched over his desk, fingers tapping out a project progress report to his boss. Does he decide to lie? If I told you that the sun had nearly set, filling the man's room with darkness, would that make any difference to your answer? It should do. A new study suggests that darkness encourages cheating, even when it makes no difference to anonymity. Chen-Bo Zhong and colle

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