The Brainspin blog has a list of 'Ten Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing About' that covers a mix of well-known studies and hidden gems from the last year.The descriptions, as you might expect, are a little brief and give just the punchline without some of the possible drawbacks but all are linked to the original study so you can them in full (well, at least as far as your access allows).
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December 30, 2009
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May 20, 2009
Send a signal to table three please
There's a brief but interesting article in The New York Times about how we use consumer goods to 'send signals' to other people. It illustrates this with a fantastic example and then misses the point. Luckily another recent study on unconscious influences on doctors hits the punchline.The idea that each product has a meaning and that we use our purchases to construct an identity from the 'languag
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