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Brain: How to optimize decision making?

September 11, 2019 Brain Injury, Consumer Behavior, Gender Difference, Intelligence, marijuana, Memory, Neuroscience, psychology

Our brains are constantly faced with different choices: Should I have a chocolate éclair or macaroon? Should I take the

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UMBC program to support diverse students in STEM successfully replicated at PSU, UNC

April 26, 2019 Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Consumer Behavior, Dieting and Weight Control, Educational Psychology, K-12 Education, Numeracy, Spirituality

UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program has been lauded as a national model for supporting diverse students in STEM fields. Other institutions

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Negative emotions can reduce our capacity to trust

March 14, 2019 Autism, Borderline Personality Disorder, Consumer Behavior, Learning Disorders, Perception, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology

It is no secret that a bad mood can negatively affect how we treat others. But can it also make

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Are eyes the window to our mistakes?

March 11, 2019 Brain-Computer Interfaces, Consumer Behavior, Environmental Policies, Intelligence, Legal Issues, psychology, Public Health, STEM Education

We all make poor decisions from time to time. Researchers at the University of Arizona are working to better understand

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Better analysis of psychological flexibility: Psychological flexibility — the bedrock of a much-used psychological therapy

January 11, 2019 Behavior, Child Development, Child Psychology, Consumer Behavior, Educational Psychology, Intelligence, Multiple Sclerosis, Psychiatry

According to figures from NHS England, some 1.4 million people were referred for NHS mental health therapy during 2017. This

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Parents put nature in the shopping basket

November 14, 2018 Child Development, Child Psychology, Consumer Behavior, Educational Psychology, epilepsy, parenting, Psychiatry, psychology

In a world of vast consumer choice, ambiguous product descriptions and self-appointed experts, parents face a minefield when picking out

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Professional, not personal, familiarity works for virtual teams

October 24, 2018 Consumer Behavior, Intelligence, K-12 Education, Memory, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology, stress

Knowing that your colleague on a project once owned a business, earned a specialized degree, or is a technology genius

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Is big-city living eroding our desire to be nice?

October 23, 2018 Behavior, Consumer Behavior, Educational Psychology, Intelligence, Psychiatry, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology

A new study by University of Miami psychology researchers of anonymous interactions suggests that humans switch off their automatic inclination

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Mouse shows potential as an animal model of decision-making

October 15, 2018 Animals, Behavioral Science, Consumer Behavior, mice, Neuroscience, psychology, Rodents

Mice can be used to study the neural circuits underlying complex decision-making, suggests an analysis of more than 500,000 mouse

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Freeloaders beware: Incentives to foster cooperation are just around the corner: Numerical simulations show that it is possible to coerce people to collaborate for the common good

October 11, 2018 Consumer Behavior, Memory, Neuroscience, Perception, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology

In our society, there are always a certain percentage of people who adopt a freeloader attitude. They let other members

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