Social media makes people unhappy… but it doesn’t have to.
Scientific American takes a look at our online habits and finds we’re not making ourselves happy. The technology makes us lose track of time, disrupts […]
psychology
It feels less evil the second time around.
The Journal of Experimental Psychology defines something I think we’ve all had a feeling about – that the more you encounter a bad deed (or […]
Rural people have a better sense of direction.
Lancaster University researchers have studied folks who grew up in the country, in the suburbs, and in the city by analyzing their movements in a […]
SONG: Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)
SONG: “Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: There is no scientific source. This is a penitential cover of this Colleen […]
A particular body odor blocks aggression in men, but triggers aggression in women.
Science Advances sniffs out something peculiar in a “body volatile” (an actively smelly chemical) called hexadecanal, or HEX, which – based on a test using […]
Change your voice, change your identity.
Scientific American published an interview from sister publication Cerveau & Psycho with Jean Abitbol, a Paris-based ear, nose and throat physician, phoniatrician, and craniofacial surgeon. […]
There’s a new branch of psychology dedicated to the study of B.S.
PsyPost, reporting on a study in Psychological Reports, introduces us to the OBPS, a way to scientifically quantify the amount of useless, stupid nonsense we’re […]
Virtual reality messes with time.
Science Daily shares UC Santa Cruz research into the strange psychological effects of virtual reality, which literally lets your brain lose track of time in […]
SONG: Dream Agency
SONG: “Dream Agency”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science, 11 June 21, “Are advertisers coming for your dreams?,” as used in the post “Advertising in your dreams.” […]
Advertising in your dreams
Science magazine covers the pushback from researchers who fear a new battleground for spam and advertisers inside our sleeping minds: This week, a group of […]
Fake news is a symptom… of fast scrolling social media. (Not wishes, partisan thinking, or anything else.)
Scientific American broadcasts a study (by David Rand and Gordon Pennycook, published in Nature) that looked at why misinformation spreads online, and found that it […]
To take a “D” off ADHD.
Scientific American puts forward an argument for renaming the neurological, psychological, something-ological condition that we currently call ADHD: The classificatory terms we use all refer […]
Psych study: Microdosing really works. But so do placebos.
Science shares a study that found microdoses of psychedelic mushrooms really do work to boost creativity and create feelings of well-being… but so did inert […]
Social media use linked to increased depression risk.
University of Arkansas is encouraging us to delete that app and stop feeding the feeds. A national study led by Dr. Brian Primack, dean of […]
Young ravens equal grown-up chimps on IQ tests.
Scientific American looks at a new round of tests that ravens as young as 4 months old have passed with flying colors, outwitting adult great […]