Psychology

Attempts to Forget the Past Make It Harder to Remember the Present

Distractions and emotions: key factors in vehicle collisions

“Who is really, really smart?” Early differences in boys’ and girls’ assumptions about intelligence

Hips don’t lie: attraction revealed by dancing body language

By default, people treat immoral actions as impossible

Your car left you down and you have an airplane to catch...what will you do?

Short bursts of exercise improve brain function

Mens sana in corpore sano - this old latin way of saying correlates physical health (corpore sano) with mental activity (mens sana). But how can we cope with...

Children Prefer the Real Thing to Pretending

Playing can be seen as the "gym" of life for children. Therefore we encourage them to pretend-play the real-life ahead of them. However, given the choice,...

How babies learn what we want

Every day, we interpret the actions of other people in terms of what they want and how hard they’re willing to try.This ability appears to emerge early in...

The hidden emotions within our blood flow

Previous research has studied the role of facial muscle movements in the visual transmission of emotion. Here, we hypothesize that blood flow changes, visible...

Infants distinguish between leaders and bullies

Leaders and bullies! When do we start to distinguish between a power based on fear and coercion and a power based on mutual respect? It seems that infants...