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Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers say that they have managed to obtain a wealth of data on unconscious visual valence perception, in a new study. This process goes on unconsciously in the brain, and is responsible for a range of human behaviors when it comes to making a selection or a choice. It kicks in... |
24 May 2012
09:03 GMT |
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In a new study, anthropologists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) determined that people tend to perceive those holding guns as being larger in size, and more muscular, than they are in reality. This has been known anecdotally for some time, but now scientists have proof.
During a series of test... |
12 April 2012
06:00 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new study, it would appear that people who suffer from common mental health disorders, such as depression, tend to receive less and less support from their friends and family, as the conditions become more and more widespread.
The same research also demonstrated that those suffering... |
11 April 2012
02:56 GMT |
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A paper in the latest issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin shows that focusing on good-faith attempts made by your partner can make for a longer-lasting, stronger relationship. The study shows that focusing more on past failings and mistakes can lead to faster separation.
Everyone who's ever been... |
16 February 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Experts with the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management say that our perception of what we call “free time” may dictate an important portion of our personal happiness. Viewing time as money is never the way to go, the researchers suggest.
In a new study, experts determined that people who pla... |
7 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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A team of psychologists at the University of Auckland (UA) and the King’s College London (KCL) Institute of Psychiatry determined in a new research that the way patients perceive their diseases is critical to whether they will get better or not, as well as for how long the recovery process will take.
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31 January 2012
07:46 GMT |
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Our perception of colors – while pretty good on some occasions – is entirely lacking on others. Researchers highlight two so-called “forbidden colors” that our eyes cannot see due to the very nature of how we perceive colors.
The colors are reddish green and yellowish blue. Just to make matt... |
17 January 2012
11:12 GMT |
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Scientists with the Giessen University, Yale University, and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (MPI-BC), in Tübingen, recently took a closer look at how the brain creates the illusion that we are living in a three-dimensional world, and managed to clear some of this mystery.
Experts do know t... |
8 December 2011
06:46 GMT |
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One of the things that everyone learns from childhood is that all sense contribute to our overall perception of the environment. The question that has been bugging researchers is how this is happening in the brain. A new study proposes a series of explanations for these phenomena.
Things are especially complex whe... |
5 December 2011
10:38 GMT |
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French researchers at the University of Notre Dame, in Paris, say that the way in which people hold their hands plays an important role in how well they will be able to learn and remember a certain experience, fact or action.
Hand gestures are very important during those critical moments when people learn somethi... |
27 September 2011
09:56 GMT |
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A group of physicists, computational scientists and biologists at the Stanford University argue in a new study that a series of phenomena previously thought to be artifacts of normal vision in fact play a very significant role in the way we perceive motion.
The investigation was carried out on fruit flies. The sma... |
13 September 2011
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Researchers have discovered in a new study that people who are actively trying to get an overview of a situation tend to have a harder time grasping the intricate correlations that form between specific objects or individuals involved in that situation.For example, when viewing an array of items, the brain can either... |
16 June 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Experts propose that way in which we perceive randomness, or expect it to look like, is something that has been with human beings for a long time, and that remains relatively unchanged as time passes.This was again proven recently during a panel discussion on Probability and Risk, which was held at the World Science ... |
9 June 2011
10:46 GMT |
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In an interesting study, experts demonstrated that people who think specifically about their own death are more likely to be willing to help society, such as for instance through blood donations. Those who thought about dying in a more abstract manner were less likely to do so. As such, the main conclusion of the new... |
20 May 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Determining how the brain interprets gravity is essential for figuring out how humans interpret the stability of objects they see. A new study has recently demonstrated, for example, that we are better judges of other objects' stability when we are upright, rather than when lying on the side. Instinctively, we l... |
28 April 2011
06:01 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States has recently determined that people tend to change their opinions about how they believe they will handle learning depending on the way they perceive intelligence in both themselves and others. These results go up against established knowledge and public wisdom, whi... |
18 April 2011
10:34 GMT |
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For the first time ever, scientists have now put together a model of the autistic brain, which reveals the changes that allow the autistic brain to have the abilities it does. The model combines well over 15 years of research into this field.For years, experts have been wondering about how is it that people suffering... |
5 April 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Researchers have recently discovered that the way women view their bodies is only slightly affected by standard anthropometric measurements, such as for example the body-mass index. Most often, their opinions are heavily influenced by the way important persons in their lives feel about their bodies. This has the prev... |
30 March 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Researchers have recently determined that people around the world, regardless of culture or creed, tend to place a stigma on overweight and obese people. Apparently, this is becoming a worldwide cultural norm, in spite of the fact that a small portion of those who are obese got so because they are sick.Experts came t... |
29 March 2011
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A large number of teenagers who suffer from acne say that the condition is having numerous effects on their personal life, in addition to being a cosmetic inconvenience. Scientists found that the teens are more likely to experience anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts as a result. The study, led by investigators... |
17 March 2011
05:28 GMT |
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In a new set of experiments, scientists have demonstrated that the human brain is very flexible and capable of switching from right- to left-brain behavior in a very short time frame. This notion is rather complex, scientists say. For example, people who are right-handed tend to unconsciously associate right with goo... |
11 March 2011
11:03 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new investigation, researchers learned that the human brain is capable of recognizing things faster if it knows what it's about to see. In other words, if it has seen a thing before, it's more likely to recognize it faster. The new discovery goes against established knowledge of how the ... |
5 February 2011
04:13 GMT |
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The pursuit of eternal youth is something we do every day, whether we put on a facial cream, go to the beauty salon, put some make-up on or simply dress better, and these past years, the difference between men and women in their care for the way they look, has decreased.But to think you look good, or younger for that... |
6 January 2011
03:12 GMT |
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It seems that people are better at guessing the personality traits of individuals they find physically attractive, during brief encounters, concluded a new University of British Columbia study.Professor Jeremy Biesanz, UBC Department of Psychology, who co-authored the study with PhD student Lauren Human and undergrad... |
22 December 2010
06:29 GMT |
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The way that patients perceive their diseases actually influences the impact that the illnesses will have on them, says a new research carried out by the University of Granada, Spain.Macarena De los Santos Roig, at the department of Social Psychology and Methodology of Behavioral Sciences of the University of Granada... |
22 October 2010
02:47 GMT |
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A new investigation conducted by researchers in the United States reveals that the general public has registered no change in perception and discrimination levels when it comes to those who suffer from severe mental illnesses. Unfortunately, the correlation was also found to hold true for people who suffered from sub... |
16 September 2010
03:42 GMT |
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I was thinking the other day about the mockery now going on in the United States, as some interest groups are attempting to place a ban on federal funding for stem cells. Then I thought about a trend I noticed in people, and in how they perceive science and technology today. Sadly enough, it would appear that we are ... |
11 September 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Many studies have tried making sense of why bullies repeatedly pick on other kids, but none of them ever asked the bullies themselves why they do it. A new research is the first to do so. Though it may seem logical to go straight to the source on this issue, until now there were no researches that asked the bullies t... |
27 August 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Falls among older people are influenced by the fear or perception they have on falling, regardless of their actual fall risk, finds a study published yesterday on bmj.com.Most older people have an irrational fear of falling, associated with poor balance, depression, anxiety and falls, that has been so far neglected b... |
20 August 2010
04:49 GMT |
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The way that people think about work is well-anchored in their culture, a new article in Culture and Psychology in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science explains.That is why one of the most important aspects of successfully running a multinational company is to ... |
12 August 2010
09:58 GMT |
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By making a study on the mental well being of overweight girls, sociologists from Penn State realized that they were searching for problems in the wrong place. The danger of depression is way higher in girls that perceive themselves as being overweight and in boys that are underweight.The research considered 6,557 ad... |
17 July 2010
06:35 GMT |
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When they want to express how familiar they are with a certain thing, person or area, people generally say that they know them like the back of their hands. This would seem to indicate that the human brain has a near-perfect grasp of the limbs, their position, size and dimensions. But a new study contradicts this est... |
15 June 2010
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The way people perceive art has been a subject of interest and dispute throughout history, researchers say, largely because no one really knows how this is done. Now, a collaboration of artists and neuroscientists is pooling its resources together, to create a team that will approach various arts from the two perspec... |
26 March 2010
03:10 GMT |
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced plans to support the development of a new type of intelligent video cameras that are to be used on robotic devices. The agency says that these instruments could be used to give robots a sense of perception, which should help them make better ... |
19 March 2010
15:01 GMT |
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One of the things that some humans have perfected to an art is understanding how they appear in the eyes of others. This ability to perceive oneself as others do has major implications in everyday life, as for instance when people leave a job interview. The same applies when a promoter pitches a sales idea in a meeti... |
24 February 2010
07:04 GMT |
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For most of us, staring in a window or mirror and recognizing our own face is something that we do automatically, and therefore many take this for granted. However, there is a small group of people that tend to fail in recognizing themselves, and these individuals suffer from a condition known as acquired prosopagnos... |
10 February 2010
16:01 GMT |
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A new scientific investigation has recently established that people who watch others engage in positive behaviors, altruistic gestures, and other types of compassion and good will, are also more likely to engage in similar gestures as well. The research demonstrated that women who watched an inspirational moment on t... |
10 February 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus have recently published the results of a new study they conducted, which shows that our hands play a crucial part in our perception of the space immediately around us. In addition to denoting something close to us, the expression &ld... |
8 February 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Over the past century or so, scientists have been wondering how it is that our emotions and thoughts can modify our expressions. This may seem natural, and indeed it is, but the mechanism behind this ability, or drawback as some call it, is still a mystery. A new investigation has recently determined that changing fa... |
1 February 2010
06:58 GMT |
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In a new series of experiments, scientists asked a number of volunteers to look at photos of androgynous faces, and determine which was male and which was female. The participants were very likely to say that people with lower eyebrows and tight lips – signs of anger – were men, while the characters with ... |
7 December 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Scientists know that the human brain is far from being decoded, and as such remains one of the most mysterious constructs in nature today. But they had no idea that it also processed impulses from the skin, when transforming electrical signals from the ears into the auditory sensation. Though that might seem improbab... |
26 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A new scientific study has revealed that people who are simply too scared of steep slopes should move in closer to the edge in order to make their anxiety go away. The conclusion comes from an investigation that showed slopes appeared increasingly mild as you got closer to them. Standing at their very edge makes them... |
25 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Our ability to recognize shapes and patterns is something that scientists believe was an acquired trait, spawned from the environment in which a new individual was born. But a new scientific study, published this week in the online issue of the journal Psychological Science, seems to show that people have a sense... |
14 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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In a new set of studies, researchers have demonstrated that the suspicions we show towards distorted faces and unconventional looks may actually be something that is rooted in our DNA. Additionally, the same investigations have also discovered that the trait might have evolved further back in the past than first pred... |
9 November 2009
07:03 GMT |
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Robots that can see are nothing new, as they've been around for quite some time now. And we're not talking about machines such as the rover Spirit, which uses its cameras to inform its human operators about what it's doing, but about robots that are able to identify and move around an obstacle all on t... |
27 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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When our ancestors began to use tools, quite simply put the world changed. Things that had been unreachable and impossible to achieve until then suddenly became simpler. Humans or humanoids could now use the tool to take fruits down from trees, to make rudimentary enclosures, to carve stone and wood, and, most import... |
23 June 2009
05:02 GMT |
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During their dialogs and conversations, people instinctively send additional messages to the ones they are voicing through a variety of other means, which come together under the name of non-verbal communication (NVC). Nods, frowns, hand gestures, head tilts and approving expressions are all part of the arsenal each ... |
25 May 2009
06:45 GMT |
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The human brain is the most effective recognition machine in the world, easily outclassing all other animal species, and even computers. The mind can handle discrepancies in size, color, orientation, lighting conditions and other factors with tremendous ease, and can recognize an object within less than a second afte... |
30 April 2009
09:58 GMT |
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Researchers have been interested in what makes a marriage tick for a long time, considering the fact that, in the United States alone, approximately 50 percent of couples divorce, and that a significant number of people get married more than once. Previous studies have shown that the first few months, or even years, ... |
24 April 2009
10:32 GMT |
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Researchers in the fields of psychology and behavioral studies are currently fascinated by the attraction that popular social media exerts on each individual, and are very surprised at the fact that it's not us who influence others, but others who make their point of view more clear than we do. So, in light of t... |
23 March 2009
10:26 GMT |
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