Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
There’s not much evidence that brain training apps really improve our cognitive abilities – so why do so many people use them? Sabrina Weiss at Wired has the answers.
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Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
An MIT professor gave his students Fitbits to find out how exercise affected their academic performance — but instead stumbled upon some interesting insights into sleep, Jamie Ducharme at Time reports. Students who stuck to a consistent sleep pattern throughout the week seemed to do better in class, the team found, while differences in sleep quality between men and women could explain why female students were getting higher grades.
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Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
Scientists can predict what country people are from just by looking at how colours make them feel, reports Eva Frederick at Science. Researchers found cultural differences in how people associate colours and emotions: Chinese participants showed the strongest association between red and joy, for example, while Greek participants were the only ones to relate purple to sadness. The team then used machine learning to guess where people were from based on the associations they made.
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