Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn’t make the final cut.
16 August 2012
Robots with long hair assumed to be less suited to engineering and lifting tasks.
Smiling as a signal of low status? Smaller athletes and models for cheap clothing smile more than bigger athletes and models for exclusive clothing (pdf).
Preservation of musical memory in an amnesic professional cellist.
Even mild mental illness linked with reduced longevity.
What’s it like to be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia?
Behavioral and neuroanatomical investigation of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory.
Reconceptualizing Obedience Within the Milgram Paradigm as Identification-Based Followership.
Do antidepressants change personality?-A five-year observational study
The readiness potential is not the neural correlate of the decision to move, a new study claims (pdf). The finding challenges the usual interpretation of Benjamin Libet’s 1980 classic study, that the conscious decision to move comes after the neural activity causing a movement.
The most influential people on Facebook are themselves less susceptible to influence.
“owners of dog breeds widely considered to be “aggressive” harbour more psychotic tendencies“
Gentlemen Patrons Give More Tips to Waitresses With Red Clothes
“Thus, from an early age, humans seem to have genuine concern for the welfare of others“