We’ve all seen horror stories of people falling off docks and cliffs and killing animals in the name of taking the best “selfies.” What motivates people to risk so much for that perfect self-portrait? Many researchers began with an assumption that there was something wrong with people who take a Read more…
To help launch John Cacioppo and my new textbook “Discovering Psychology: the Science of Mind”, I will be ‘tweeting’ and ‘re-tweeting’ blogs and news articles that I hope you find helpful. Psychology has much to offer our world and to each of us… if nothing more than helping us in Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: why we feel ’embarrassed” “Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University Read more…
Here are a few stories for today: free will or not? “Think about the last time you got bored with the TV channel you were watching and decided to change it with the remote control. Or a time you grabbed a magazine off a newsstand, or raised a hand Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: do snails dream? “Richard Stephenson and Vern Lewis of the University of Toronto in Canada noticed that great pond snails (Lymnaea stagnalis) in tanks in their lab spent 10 per cent of the time in a “quiescent” state: they would attach themselves to Read more…