PsycPORT: Psychology Newswire
- Relationship anxiety is normal
- Ten times more children and teens are obese today than 40 years ago
- Men's and women's brains react differently when helping others
- American professor wins Nobel Prize in economics for trying to understand bad human behavior
- Husbands of female breadwinners most at risk for cheating
Research Digest
- The effect of emotions on your behaviour depends partly on your expectations
- Reverse “stereotype threat” – women chess players perform better against men
- The concept of “compensation” makes sense of several autism puzzles
- Believers in conspiracy theories and the paranormal are more likely to see “illusory patterns”
- Find a gym buddy – not letting them down can be a powerful incentive
Science Daily
- Delayed word processing could predict patients' potential to develop Alzheimer's disease
- 'Selfish brain' wins out when competing with muscle power, study finds
- Brain takes seconds to switch modes during tasks
- Shifting relationship between flexibility, modularity in the brain, researchers find
- Itsy bitsy spider: Fear of spiders and snakes is deeply embedded in us
- Lower brain glucose levels found in people with obesity, type 2 diabetes