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Brain learns to recognize familiar faces regardless of where they are in the visual field

November 10, 2018 Brain Injury, Intelligence, Language Acquisition, Learning Disorders, Perception, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology

A Dartmouth study finds that recognition of faces varies by where they appear in the visual field and this variability

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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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Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked: If you thought that proactively offering help to your co-workers was a good thing, think again

October 23, 2018 Behavior, Hearing Impairment, Multiple Sclerosis, Perception, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology, stress

If you thought that proactively offering help to your co-workers was a good thing, think again. New workplace research from

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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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Struggling to get out of bed in the morning is a sign of an actual condition

October 23, 2018 Mental Health, psychology, sleep

If you’ve been struggling to get out of bed in the morning, then you’re certainly not alone. As the mornings

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Do lovers always tease each other? Study shows how couples handle laughter and banter

October 16, 2018 Behavior, Borderline Personality Disorder, Gender Difference, Perception, psychology, Racial Issues, Relationships, Social Psychology

Laughter plays an important role in romantic relationships — whether or not it’s shared together or directed at the significant

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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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Health Problems

The psychology of closure – and why some need it more than others

October 9, 2018 –, and, closure, It, more, Need, of, others, psychology, some, than, the, Why

Imagine your partner unexpectedly changes their Facebook status from “in a relationship” to “single” and then refuses to communicate with

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Turns Out The Way You Walk Says A Lot About Your Personality

September 21, 2018 culture, fitness, movement, personality, psychology, walk, walking

Walking is one of the few things in life that requires little to no brain power. We don’t have to

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