The study, titled "Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs," was conducted by a large research team that included UC Berkeley Psychology Postdoctoral Researcher Emily Sanford, UC Berkeley ...
Will the 28th of August 2015 go down in the science history books as the end of Psychology? Or will it mark a new beginning for our beautiful discipline? I hope the latter. But I cannot be sure after ...
Objectives Public health students face academic and training pressures as well as challenges arising from patient and community expectations, which may adversely affect their quality of life (QoL) and ...
Findings of psychological research now regularly escape the ivory towers of academe to permeate popular media. This results in misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and misquoting of research ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the night before Christmas in 1954, a Chicago housewife named Dorothy Martin ...
If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the ...
Word of the Day – Schadenfreude: A 2023 YouGov survey found that nearly 68% of Americans admitted feeling “secret satisfaction” when a rival failed at least once in the past year. That emotional ...
Many psychological studies rely on participants to give up their time to take part in experiments or complete questionnaires. They take part because they get paid or because they are required to as ...