Tag: psychology

Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

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The Architecture of a Problem (Part 2) Psychoanalysis and Creativity

Malcolm Quinn expounds on the implications and applications of psychoanalysis and art...

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Did You Really Want to do That? Free Will Gets Computer Analysed

Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making...

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The Architecture of a Problem (Psychoanalysis and Creative Practice)

Professor Malcolm Quinn shares his thoughts on psychoanalytic approaches in art and design....

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Klever Kitty! Scientists Isolate the Antidepressant Component of Ketamine

Team IDs brain circuit involved in party drug's antidepressant effect ...

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Screw You, Confucius! Material Purchases Make You Happy

A recent study from Social Psychological and Personality Science shows material purchases provide more frequent happiness...

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Episodic or Semantic: What’s Your Memory Type?

New research shows that the tendency to remember episodic details versus facts is reflected in intrinsic brain patterns...

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A more chaotic brain state: New Data on How LSD Works

LSD changes consciousness by reorganizing human brain networks ...

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Thanks! The Proven Way to Get The Right Kind of Attention

Pay it forward: Small favors can yield large returns, study finds...

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Brain Strain: What You Don’t Want to Know (But Need To) About Cannabis

Study shows white matter damage caused by 'skunk-like' cannabis ...

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Not Painless. Stuart Semple’s ‘My Sonic Youth’ Addresses Male Suicide

If you're male and under 45, suicide is your most likely cause of death. Stuart Semple's recent project My Sonic Youth addresses the issue....

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Finding Your Happy Place (with MRI): the Neural Structures of Happiness

Kyoto University researchers narrow in on the neural structures behind happiness...

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Reduce Racism with this Seven Minute Miracle

Seven minutes of meditation can reduce racial prejudice, study finds ...

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A Human Instinct for War? Sociologist Hugh Gusterson Explains

Terrorism is a tactic. You usually fight war against a constituent. It’s hard to fight a war against a tactic. - Interview with Hugh Gusterson, sociologist ...

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You Thought You Were Anonymous?! What Your Video Gaming Reveals

Video games can provide a wealth of useful population-level information on developmental, cognitive and psychological processes....

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But does it WORK? The Power of Magical Thinking

Even smart, educated, emotionally stable adults believe in superstitions that they recognize are unreasonable....

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Spurn Kinky Milk Goods, Vanilla Yoghurt Makes You Happy. Fact!

Vanilla yogurt makes us feel happy, suggests research ...

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Male/Female Brain Differences? More Like Hackney to Hoxton than Mars to Venus

Male/female brain differences? Big data says not so much ...

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Want to Skip the Supermarket Queue? Ditch the Beer

New study conducted in German supermarket tests willingness of customers to cooperate and help other customers proceed faster...

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Dishonest, but Nice: Empathy Helps Kids Lie (Theory of Mind)

Understanding others' thoughts enables young kids to lie ...

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Can You Tell Your Toes Apart? Try this Toe Test

Research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart...

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I didn’t forget your Birthday, I just have Delayed Remembering

Kids can remember tomorrow what they forgot today ...

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Phleghm-ily Affair. How Smokers breed Smokers

If mum or dad is a smoker, their teenager is more likely to be a smoker too. Report...

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Dither, and the Cat Dies. Quantum Probability and Irrational Decisions

You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic ...

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More Women at Work, More Murders. Gender Equality and Homicide Increase

The greater a country's gender equality in employment, the higher its homicide rate ...

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We Can Predict that For You Wholesale? Murder Forecasting hits real life.

New knowledge about murderers who commit what is called spontaneous domestic homicide...

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Napoleon Complex: Are Weaklings more violent than Macho Men?

Insecure men are more likely to commit violent assaults with weapons and to cause injury if they feel others see them in this light too....

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Soul-Gazing: Charting The Daily Ebb and Flow of Spiritual Awareness

'Sometimes the situation you are in affects your spiritual awareness. Other times your spiritual awareness affects the situation you're in.'...

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Spots or Stripes? Why Animal Camouflage is WRONG

Stripes might not offer protection for animals living in groups, such as zebra, as previously thought....

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