News tagged with social judgement

Using live worms as bait: Voters swayed by interactive 'worm' graph during election debate

Research from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Bristol calls into question people's ability to form their own judgements about their preferred election candidate after finding voters could be heavily ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Brain takes just 200 milliseconds to interpret facial expressions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered that it takes the brain just 200 milliseconds to gather most of the information it needs from a facial expression to determine a person’s ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Women easier to read after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by a University of Glasgow psychologist, examining whether personality is related to facial appearance, has found that women’s faces are easier to read than men.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Eye-witness identification may be attributed to bias

For the first time, eye-witness identifications are to be studied to determine if people avoid pointing the finger at someone they like in a police line-up.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0