Here’s How You Can Increase Your Attention Span In Just A Few Days
Meditate: Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. However, the lengthy training required has made it difficult to use random assignment…
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What’s a quick and easy way to boost cognitive performance?
Drink a Red Bull: There has been a dramatic rise in the consumption of glucose energy drinks (e.g., Amp, Monster, and Red Bull) in the past decade, particularly among high…
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Does your mind play tricks on you when it comes to food?
Brian Wansink researches eating behavior at Cornell. In an extended interview he covers a number of the ways context and bias surreptitiously affect our eating decisions: It was all the same…
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The Simple Thing Will Help You Communicate Better, Learn More And Enhance Problem Solving
Gesturing when you talk. It can communicate important information when you're speaking: We explored how speakers and listeners use hand gestures as a source of perceptual-motor information during naturalistic communication.…
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Are the most romantic gifts expensive and worthless?
What are the characteristics of a good courtship gift? We address this question by modelling courtship as a sequential game. This is structured as follows: the male offers a gift…
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Does your last name affect how you shop?
"...the later in the alphabet the first letter of one’s childhood surname is, the faster the person acquires items as an adult." In addition to deciding whether to buy an…
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Can you tell if someone is good at their job just by watching them for 6 seconds?
The accuracy of strangers' consensual judgments of personality based on "thin slices" of targets' nonverbal behavior were examined in relation to an ecologically valid criterion variable. In the 1st study,…
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Can you tell if someone is rich by a quick glance?
Yes. They're the ones who don't seem to be paying attention: Socioeconomic status (SES) is a primary determinant of health vulnerabilities and social affiliations. To ascertain if SES is signaled…
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