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Is this the first ever direct evidence for human mirror neurons?

Apr 9th

Posted by mosotech in Technology

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Mirror neurons are one of the most hyped concepts in psychology and neurocience. V.S

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People lie more in email than when using pen and paper

Apr 8th

Posted by mosotech in business

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Emails feel so transient, so disembodied, that we’re more tempted to lie when sending them compared with writing with pen and paper. That’s according to Charles Naquin and colleagues who tested the honesty of students and managers as they played financial games

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Looking back on five years of the Digest, part II

Apr 7th

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The Research Digest blog was five years old in February.

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People have an intuitive understanding of the science of persuasion

Apr 6th

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Psychologists have devoted entire careers to finding out how people can be persuaded, but far less time investigating what people know intuitively about persuasion.

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Milgram’s personal archive reveals how he created the ‘strongest obedience situation’

Apr 2nd

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Stanley Milgram’s 1960s obedience to authority experiments, in which a majority of participants applied an apparently fatal electric shock to an innocent ‘learner’, are probably the most famous in psychology, and their findings still appall and intrigue to this day. Now, in a hunt for fresh clues as to why ordinary people were so ready to harm another, Nestar Russell , at Victoria University of Wellington, has reviewed Milgram’s personal notes and project applications, which are housed at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library

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Child’s play! The developmental roots of the misconception that psychology is easy

Mar 31st

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The widespread misconception that psychology is easy and mere common sense has its roots in the biased way that children work out whether a topic is challenging or not. Frank Keil and colleagues asked children aged between five and thirteen, and adults, to rate the difficulty of questions from physics (e.g. How does a spinning top stay upright?), chemistry, biology, psychology (e.g

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Large, longitudinal study finds tentative links between internet use and loneliness

Mar 26th

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Internet use is growing at a phenomenal rate and much ink has been spilled by commentators forecasting the psychological consequences of all this extra web-time. A lot of that comment is mere conjecture whilst many of the studies in the area are cross-sectional, with small samples, producing conflicting results

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Announcing the release of Community Technology Preview-2 (CTP2) of …

May 2nd

Posted by angelina in Community

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The Windows PowerShell Team is pleased to release the second Community Technology Preview (CTP2) of Windows PowerShell V2! This release adds a plethora of new features. PowerShell remoting now allows a one-to-one interactive experience. …

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