Many women with low sex drives reported greater sexual satisfaction after taking a placebo, according to new psychology research.
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September 16, 2010
March 5, 2010
Atheists are disagreeable and unconscientious
A new analysis comparing the personalities of religious and less religious people has found that religiosity is generally linked to agreeableness and conscientiousness. Well, that's the headline. To understand why this might be, you need to dig into the details of the study.Vassilis Saroglou, a leading expert in personality and religious psychology research, has done what's called a meta-analysis
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January 22, 2010
Psychologists Use Non-Expert Student Observers In Autism Research
Non-expert is not often a term that one would associate with scientific research, but it could become a new trend in psychology research. Some recent studies have begun to rely on non-expert students to observe and provide data during experiments. In a research project about early autism detection in infants, Dr...
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December 2, 2009
What if you saw something that rocked your world … and you didn't notice?
If you're a regular read of Cognitive Daily, you're, relatively accustomed to seeing surprising things. Indeed, it's gotten to the point where you might even expect it. You've seen optical illusions and videos that baffle the imagination. Yet most participants in psychology research studies aren't aware of the many ways the mind can be "tricked." One of the most dramatic tricks, which we've discu
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November 24, 2009
Ads For Unhealthy Foods Increase Children’s Consumption 45%
New psychology research demonstrates a direct effect of snack food adverts on increased consumption for both adults and children.Nowadays the word 'obesity' is rarely seen in print without its partner-in-crime, 'epidemic'. The developed world seems to be intent on eating itself to death and no small proportion of the newly obese are children: one-third in [...]» Try the latest happiness-boo
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November 23, 2009
Collective Depression Syndrome Among Asylum-Seeking Detainees Highlighted In New Paper Published By Dove Medical Press
A new paper by William W Bostock from the School of Government, University of Tasmania, analysing the debate between the psychiatric profession and the Australian government over collective depression syndrome found among asylum-seeking detainees, has been published in the Dove Medical Press journal: Psychology Research and Behavior Management.
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August 30, 2009
Designing Choices with Helping Biases
Decades of psychology research illustrates that people often don't know their own preferences for what they want. In other words, you can frame questions in different ways to elicit different responses. If people really understood what they wanted, they would not be fooled by framing effects. Decisions are influenced by cognitive errors, framing effects, mental shortcuts, social influences, and o
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June 17, 2009
Beauty: symmetry versus averageness
It's a far cry from the almond eyes and radiant smiles of poetry, but according to psychology research, beauty lies, with some sterility, in the averageness and symmetry of a face. That much we know.The trouble is, studies on this topic have tended to create highly average faces by morphing lots of real faces altogether, and in the process they've created faces that are also highly symmetrical. I
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June 1, 2009
June issue of The Psychologist magazine available FREE online
The digital format allows you to flick through the pages as if you had the publication in your hands. Inside you'll find articles on: World famous psychologist Albert Bandura's efforts to tackle global problems with the help of psychosocial theory; The benefits and dangers of virtual worlds for psychology research, teaching and therapy; The psychology of siblings; Giftedness and the brain; plus m
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