The Barnum Effect: Why Horoscopes Are So Popular
What if someone told you that they had created a personality profile just for you? Here is an extract: “You have a great need for…
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Rewarding Violence Might Make Criminals Less Likely To Hurt Others
The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego is conducting research to see if providing incentives might reduce violence. According to research from the…
The Rhyme-as-Reason Effect: Why We Find Reason in Rhyme, Time After Time
Over the years, marketers, campaigners, and politicians have successfully used rhyming slogans as a tool to persuade people that their product, idea, or candidate is…
Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness
Deep Longevity, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, presents a deep learning approach to mental health. Deep Longevity has published a paper in Aging-US outlining…
Stress Induces a Kind of Sleep That Helps Relieve Anxiety
Stress boosts a kind of sleep that subsequently relieves anxiety, according to new research using mice that also pinpoints the mechanism responsible. Since sleep is…
Overlooked Strengths of Dyslexia – Essential to Human Adaptive Success
Researchers say people with Developmental Dyslexia have specific strengths relating to exploring the unknown that have contributed to our species’ successful adaptation and survival. University…
Downward Spiral: Ruminating on Our Ruminations Causes More Depression
Depressive symptoms are something many young people have. Ruminative thinking, and even thinking about how much you ruminate, reinforces the symptoms. But there is hope….
A New Form of Therapy for Autistic Individuals Can Improve Overall Well-Being
Evaluating a new method of therapy for autistic individuals The use of Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder was evaluated in…
New Research Shows That Probiotics Can Help Alleviate Depression
Good Bacteria To Tackle Depression Gut microbiome plays an important role in health – including mental health. Researchers from the University of Basel and the…
When Companies’ Diversity Messages Backfire
The business case for diversity can undermine belonging for potential employees from underrepresented groups, research finds. Many companies have efforts to increase their diversity and…
The Decoy Effect: What It Is and How to Make It Work for You
Every retailer is interested in increasing their turnover or maximizing the sales of a particular product at some point or other, and one way of…
Scientists Have Established a Key Biological Difference Between Psychopaths and Normal People
A new study has shown that psychopathic people have a bigger striatum area in their brain Neuroscientists using MRI scans discovered that psychopathic people have…
Boost Your Productivity With the Zeigarnik Effect
The Zeigarnik effect describes the way unfinished tasks remain active in our mind, intruding into our thoughts and our sleep until they are dealt with,…
Our Creativity Has Increased as a Result of the COVID-19 Lockdown
How the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown influenced our creativity COVID-19 caught us off guard, and the unusual circumstances of the initial lockdown demanded extraordinary adaptability,…
The Denomination Effect: Why You Are More Likely to Hang Onto a $100 Bill Than Five $20s
Picture this: you’re going to the office and you stop at your regular coffee shop on the way. You pick up your usual large mocha…
The Cashless Effect: Why Credit Cards Make It So Difficult to Budget
The end of the month is here again and, with it, the credit card bill. It’s higher than you thought it would be, and you…
Exposing Liars by Distraction – Science Reveals a New Method of Lie Detection
According to an experiment, investigators who asked a suspect to carry out an additional, secondary, task while being questioned were more likely to expose liars….
The Endowment Effect: Why You Find It So Hard to Sell Your Used Car
What is it? The endowment effect describes our tendency to overvalue the goods in our endowment — our possessions — just because they are ours….
