Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn’t make the final cut.
15 September 2011
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Just in time for the latest series of X-factor: “A frog in your throat or in your ear? Searching for the causes of poor singing.“
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A statistical error that’s widespread in neuroscience (pdf via author website).
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Does sexism motivate some of the advice offered to pregnant women?
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When Prisoners Take Over the Prison: A Social Psychology of Resistance.
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Obstacles, literal and metaphorical, trigger a global processing “big picture” style of thought.
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Understanding workplace boredom among white collar employees.
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Bisexual men really are aroused physically and subjectively by both sexes (for years past research has failed to demonstrate this).
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Spoiler false alarm! People enjoy stories more when they know what’s going to happen.
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There’s too much emphasis on individual face-to-face therapy.
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Health and psychological well-being benefits of pets have yet to be proven.
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At what stage do unborn babies start to perceive pain? “The results suggest that specific neural circuits necessary for discrimination between touch and nociception emerge from 35–37 weeks gestation in the human brain.”
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Bereaved parents more likely to die in ensuing years after loss than are non-bereaved parents.