Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn’t make the final cut.
06 January 2011
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‘In comparison to their younger counterparts, older adults generally reported and expressed greater sympathy while observing the target persons’ – age changes in three facets of empathy.
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Participants were able to identify whether a stranger was a Mormon or not, merely based on their facial appearance (and controlling for the presence or absence of facial hair). [open access]
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Fact and fiction in the use of cognitive testing in staff recruitment.
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Placebos are effective even when patients are told that it’s a placebo (at least, for patients with IBS). [open access]
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How physical posture affects our feelings of power and our thinking style.
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People with larger amygdalae (a temporal lobe structure involved in emotional learning) tend to have larger social networks. [open access]
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Rat study shows that stress can re-activate memories that are unrelated to the stressful experience. [open access]
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How to deceive your research participants ethically – a guide for researchers.