Psychology

How accurate is our memory?

Our memories often feel like records of the past. But the dominant view among scientists is that our personal memories are highly prone to error and not to be...

Overcoming this is going to be difficult: Suicide risk, stigma, and chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome is a debilitating illness that affects 1.5 million Americans. Because it is linked with higher risks of suicide, scientists are...

Norwegian IQ scores are falling – but genes are not to blame

After several decades of increasing IQ scores, the average score of Norwegian male conscripts began to decline with the birth cohorts born after 1975. Both the...

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,...

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

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

Should Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Be Considered an Impulse Control Disorder?

With an estimated 3 to 6 percent of the population possibly having compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), it is now being researched like never before....

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...

Our own choices generate biases for subsequent decisions

Humans like to think of their judgments as ‘rational’, solely based on objective information. Instead, we have found that people interpret decision-relevant...

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...