SONG: Picture on Your Phone
SONG: “Picture on Your Phone”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science Direct, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Selfie’ harm: Effects on mood and body image in young women”, […]
psychology
Statistics are complicated, right? Well, thinking that is why we tend to get misled.
Ars Technica keeps it simple, smart, with a new study that shows why statistics can be the third kind of lie* – sometimes the hard […]
We stick to false beliefs because reactions matter more than evidence.
Science Daily reports (factually) on a UC Berkeley study that reveals how the feedback we get makes us so certain about our wrong beliefs: “If […]
Posting selfies damages your self-image.
Science Direct has a social media study from psychologists at Toronto’s York University and Adelaide’s Flinders University, who’ve found that women feel worse about themselves […]
Chilling out: Starting to study the physiology of ASMR
Researchers from the UK’s University of Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan University have taken a closer look at what’s really going on with all those hugely […]
Kids are proving more patient than ever.
Science News shows how the marshmallow game – give a pre-teen one marshmallow now or let them wait, staring at it, for n minutes to […]
Screen-time for kids: Science says… well… maybe not all that bad?
The Guardian explores what the research doesn’t say about letting kids zonk out on their video games and iPads and computer screens and whatnot: Andy […]
Finns aren’t happy about being named the happiest country on Earth.
Scientific American recently ran a blog by Finnish psychologist and philosopher Frank Martela, who explains why Finland’s national skepticism about happiness might make them, according […]
Killer whales speak human. A little.
Of course. Of course. The Guardian reveals that orcas can use human speech when it suits them: New research reveals that orcas are able to […]
“Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.
Indiana University psychology researchers have definitely proved, after 10 years of study, that a particular kind of video game, as part of a brief brain-training […]
Spanking makes their behavior worse
Science Daily has more on the Texas and Virginia researchers who looked over 12,112 kids’ experiences growing up and concluded spanking – free of all […]
Stop your smartphone from hijacking your brain.
Popular Science wants to help you break the smartphone habit: “When we let ourselves space out and let our minds wander,” [Manoush] Zomordoi writes, “we […]
Dogs know themselves (as if we didn’t know that already). By their noses.
Science Daily reports on Barnard College and Tomsk State University researchers who have looked at dogs looking at (and sniffing) themselves and found that, yep, […]
Does your tunnel come after the white light?
Science Daily investigates the process of dying – or rather, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Although people report very similar NDEs across cultures – looking down at […]
SONG: I Had A Fever
SONG: “I Had A Fever”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?,” Scientific American, 17 Jul 2017, as used in the post “Does kindness come from […]