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biological, evolutionary psych, Sport September 28, 2018October 2, 2018

This is what happened to fathers’ hormone levels when they watched their kids play football

By Christian Jarrett. The dads’ hormonal changes were linked to their perceptions of referee fairness.

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Emotion, Football, Occupational, Sport October 10, 2016

Football team lose yesterday? Your work performance will probably suffer today

By Alex Fradera How much do experiences in one part of our lives have effects that spill into other, seemingly…

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Developmental, Educational, Lying September 29, 2020

Even Imaginary Barriers Can Prevent Kids From Cheating On Tests

By Emma Young. Children cheated less from an answer sheet if there was some kind of barrier in their way — even if it was completely imaginary.

Weekly links October 11, 2019

Brain Training And Counting Bees: This Week’s Best Psychology Links

Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web

Football, Social, Sport February 8, 2016July 30, 2016

How the home crowd affects football referees’ decisions

One of the most thorough investigations into referee bias has found that they tend to award harsher foul punishments to…

Sport, Team work September 14, 2020

People Love Winning Streaks By Individuals More Than Those By Teams

By Emily Reynolds. The “Streaking Star Effect” relates to feelings of awe at seeing an individual on a winning streak.

Cognition, Intelligence, Replications, Social March 26, 2018March 26, 2018

Sorry, but imagining you’re a professor won’t make you smarter (an unsuccessful mass replication of the Professor Prime effect)

This is yet another serious blow to the social priming literature. But it’s also a success for non-adversarial science. By Alex Fradera

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Emotion, evolutionary psych November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

Schadenfreude turns us into temporary psychopaths, according to a new model of the emotion

By Emma Young. A person experiencing schadenfreude tends to dehumanise the target of their gleeful feelings.

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evolutionary psych, Language, Sport September 14, 2018September 18, 2018

New study of trash talking in sport highlights that it is more than a physical contest

By Christian Jarrett. The researchers said their exploratory study is the first to examine trash talking in sport through an evolutionary lens.

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Educational, Sport May 30, 2018May 30, 2018

Physically active academic school lessons boost pupils’ activity levels and focus

By Christian Jarrett For various reasons, children in many countries are increasingly sedentary and childhood obesity is a growing concern.…

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