News tagged with psychological processes
Researchers find link between personality and credit scores
The use of credit scores as employment screening tools is a hotly debated topic. According to a 2010 poll by the Society for Human Resource Management, 60 percent of surveyed employers conducted credit checks for some or ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Input-output trade-offs found in human information processing
The most beautiful thing about humans, says Indiana University researcher S. Lee Hong, is that they are both ever-changing and sometimes prone to error. Yet humans are still extremely flexible and adaptable, managing the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 16, 2010 |
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Nexi robot: A matter of trust
(PhysOrg.com) -- What can a wide-eyed, talking robot teach us about trust? A lot, according to Northeastern psychology professor David DeSteno, and his colleagues, who are conducting innovative research to ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Psychologist explores human perception
(PhysOrg.com) -- Faces tell the stories in UC Riverside professor Larry Rosenblum's ecological listening lab, as volunteer test subjects show that they can "read" unheard speech — not just from lips, but from the simple movements ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 13, 2010 |
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Recent research on memory/learning
Are we over estimating remembering and underestimating learning?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 06, 2010 |
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Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Color is normally thought of as a fundamental attribute of an object: a red Corvette, a blue lake, a pink flamingo. Yet despite this popular notion, new research suggests that our perception ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Study suggests left-side bias in visual expertise
Facial recognition is not as automatic as it may seem. Researchers have identified specific areas in the brain devoted solely to picking out faces among other objects we encounter. Two specific effects have been established ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 28, 2009 |
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From stress to financial mess: Study suggests acute stress affects financial decision making
It is not surprising that as our economy continues its freefall, we are feeling increasingly more stressed and worried. Many of us are feeling extreme unease about the security of our jobs and being able to make our next ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2009 |
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