Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn’t make the final cut.
25 July 2012
People like their bosses to have high emotional intelligence, even more than high IQ. Also: “participants favoured young, male bosses and old, female bosses over old, male bosses and young, female bosses.”
Using psychology to improve Powerpoint presentations (open access).
Percepts to recollections: insights about memory functioning from single neuron recordings in the human brain (open access).
Can people tell whether abstract art is hanging the right way up or not?
Watching the Biggest Loser diet TV show risks increasing obesity stigma.
Using horses as an animal model of human depression.
We prefer product packaging that’s rounded rather than straight-edged.
Anger really is linked with the colour red in our minds.
Younger people prefer “saving the best for last” more than older people.