Plenty of research has been conducted into the ability of people, including police officers, to judge whether people are lying: most of us are useless, while new research suggests the police may be better. However, little research has been conducted in…
Eye-catching studies that didn’t make the final cut:This sounds familiar: a memory-based account of deja vu (pdf).The kind of streets older people like to walk down.Examining why we remember so much more from adolescence and early adulthood than at oth…
By nine months of age, babies can already tell the difference between jolly jingles and sad ones. You can probably imagine that demonstrating this was no mean feat for researchers, given the obvious difficulties of asking babies what they think.Ross Fl…
We trawl the web for the latest psychology journal special issues so you don’t have to:Parental and Young People’s Substance Misuse (Child Abuse Review).A Hundred Years of Eye Movement Research in Psychiatry (Brain and Cognition).Core Competencies to P…
Psychologists in America have interviewed ten male members of the Latter-day Saints Church (i.e. Mormons) who’ve grown beards despite their church having strict rules prohibiting facial hair. Michael Nielsen and Daryl White argue the stories these men …
In an experiment reminiscent of French Connection’s successful FCUK advertising campaign, psychologists in America have documented a new word illusion using what they call the “fast pairs” method.Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Alison Morris have found t…
The Broken Windows theory of crime reduction, made famous by Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book The Tipping Point, has received new robust empirical support from a series of studies by Dutch researchers.According to the theory, more serious crimes can…
Serendipitous timing has allowed researchers in Canada to capture the brain activity of a woman experiencing a spontaneous sense of someone else being in the room with her, when really she was alone.This feeling of sensed presence is rather common. For…
The results of the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) are in, and they show that 11 per cent of the UK’s psychological research, as submitted by 76 universities, was judged to be of the highest ‘world leading’ 4* standard.The results of the RAE,…
As you go shopping for Christmas presents this holiday, bear in mind that buying the wrong gift for a man could put your relationship with him in jeopardy, whereas buying a bad gift for a woman is far less dangerous.That’s according to Elizabeth Dunn a…
