BPS Research Digest
Friday, 12 August 2016

The Research Digest has moved!

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On 11 August 2016 the BPS Research Digest blog moved to a new   site, please find us over there : http://digest.bps.org.uk
Wednesday, 10 August 2016

More analytical, less intuitive people are better at empathy

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Image via  Roy Blumenthal/Flickr Reading what other people are feeling is an important skill that helps us navigate conflicts, deepen re...
Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Episode 7: Use Psychology To Compete Like An Olympian

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Image via Flickr This is Episode Seven of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society's Research Digest, spo...

Two meta-analyses find no evidence that "Big Brother" eyes boost generosity

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Being watched encourages us to be nicer people – what psychologists call behaving “pro-socially”. Recent evidence has suggested this effe...
Monday, 8 August 2016

Gender differences at the movies – women remember more of rom-coms, men remember more from action flicks

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When viewing a film genre that supposedly “matches” our gender, we build up stronger memory “schema” Psychology research has shown that ...
Saturday, 6 August 2016

Link Feast

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Our editor's pick the 10 best psychology and neuroscience links from the last week or so : How To Talk So That People Listen At the...
Friday, 5 August 2016

Are brainy people lazy? "Need For Cognition" correlates with less physical activity

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According to Hollywood stereotypes, there are the clever, nerdy young people who spend most of their time sitting around thinking and read...
Thursday, 4 August 2016

A lot of "voice hearing" isn't an auditory experience at all

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The message from recent surveys is that it's not just people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who hear voices in their heads, many pe...
Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Bridge Burning and the six other ways to quit your job

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Just as Paul Simon sang about 50 ways to leave your lover, a new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology suggests there ar...
Friday, 29 July 2016

10 of The Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychology

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In a sense we're all amateur psychologists – we've got our own first-hand experience at being human, and we've spent years obser...
Thursday, 28 July 2016

Neuro Harlow: The effect of a mother's touch on her child's developing brain

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In the 1950s, the American psychologist Harry Harlow famously showed that infant rhesus monkeys would rather cling to a surrogate wire mot...
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