Stop me if you’ve heard this one: police are accused of overreacting to a threat, but police say a response was justified, so we’re going to review footage of the event. We have some bad news, though: if that video doesn’t tell the whole story, it just reinforces our prejudices. … Read More
Think you’re too old to learn? No such luck. A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology has found that, contrary to what has been shown before, trial-and-error learning still works on the elderly. Research on learning tends to use word pair tests. Subjects are given a bunch of … Read More
Need to think through a problem? It might help to get up from your desk and spend a few minutes pounding pavement. This data comes courtesy of a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. In one experiment, subjects had to sit facing a blank wall while researchers named … Read More
Not getting enough sleep? Who is? Poor sleep is associated with all kinds of problems, from anxiety to overeating to thinking women are way more into you than they really are, a problem we call sleep goggles. Oh, and poor sleep ruins how well you work the next day. Fortunately, … Read More
