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How carrots help us see the color orange

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 2

One of the easiest ways to identify an object is by its color -- perhaps it is because children's books encourage us to pair certain objects with their respective colors. Why else would so many of us automatically assume ...





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Psychologist explores perception of fear in human sweat

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

When threatened, many animals release chemicals as a warning signal to members of their own species, who in turn react to the signals and take action. Research by Rice University psychologist Denise Chen suggests a similar ...


New insights into the neural basis of anxiety

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 03, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0

People who suffer from anxiety tend to interpret ambiguous situations, situations that could potentially be dangerous but not necessarily so, as threatening. Researchers from the Mouse Biology Unit of the European Molecular ...


Does it matter if black plus white equals black or multiracial?

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 4

"Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?" a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama should be considered black or multiracial has been a concern of the media throughout the campaign.


Unanimous union: The mind and body together lean toward 'truthiness'

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

‘Truthiness,’ according to television satirist Stephen Colbert, represents the human preference to follow our intuition despite the presence of facts or evidence. For example, the more ambiguous an answer to a question, ...


Believing is seeing

Believing is seeing, when it comes to emotions

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Folk wisdom usually has it that "seeing is believing," but new research suggests that "believing is seeing," too - at least when it comes to perceiving other people's emotions.


Factors that influence whether people define unwelcome sexual joking in the workplace as harassment

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study in Law & Social Inquiry shows that how people define sexual harassment is directly related to the extent to which they view sexual harassment rules as ambiguous and threatening to workplace norms.


Walk this way? Masculine motion seems to come at you, while females walk away

Biology /

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

You can tell a lot about people from the way they move alone: their gender, age, and even their mood, earlier studies have shown. Now, researchers reporting in the September 9th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press public ...


Scientists create touch-based illusion

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created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Anyone who has seen an optical illusion can recall the quirky moment when you realize that the image being perceived is different from objective reality. Now, a team of scientists from MIT, Harvard and McGill has designed ...


People Use Separate Brain Mechanisms to Make Ambiguous and Risky Choices

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created Mar 02, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Distinct regions of the human brain are activated when people are faced with ambiguous choices versus choices involving only risk, Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered.


Wristbands ease nausea with cancer treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer patients who wore acupressure wristbands had much less nausea while receiving radiation treatment, making the bands a safe, low-cost addition to anti-nausea medication, according to a study published in the Journal of ...



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