by Craig Marker | Mar 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt about different costs of a placebo:Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University in North Carolina, and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tested 82 volunteers.All got a light electric shock and were offered what they were told...
by Craig Marker | Mar 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the BPS Blog:Aspects of the environment that indicate danger – from flashing lights to a mere exclamation mark – lead us to make faster and more extreme judgements about fairness.Kees van den Bos and colleagues say this happens because when...
by Craig Marker | Mar 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Psychology Today:See, it comes down to math. All steroids are hormones and all hormones begin life as cholesterol. The body turns cholesterol into progesterone, estrogen, DHEA, testosterone and cortisol, but these aren’t the only possibilities....
by Craig Marker | Feb 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from MindHacks:Psychologist Irving Kirsch, who led this new research, has conducted several previous studies looking at the effectiveness of SSRI antidepressant drugs and found similar results, although this is the first time that the study has factored in...
by Craig Marker | Feb 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the NY Times:If Carole Johnson, a retired school administrator who lives near Sacramento, Calif., happens to have a distressing thought while passing through a doorway, she needs to “clear” the thought by passing through the door twice more, doing it...
by Craig Marker | Feb 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
A new study by Kathleen Vohs and Jonathan Schooler investigates whether students exposed to arguments against the existence of free will are more likely to cheat. Here is an excerpt from the BPS blog about this study and below is the link to the article (need to have...
