Subject
53 articles
Our memories often feel like records of the past. But the dominant view among scientists is that our personal memories are highly prone to error and not to be...
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a debilitating illness that affects 1.5 million Americans. Because it is linked with higher risks of suicide, scientists are...
After several decades of increasing IQ scores, the average score of Norwegian male conscripts began to decline with the birth cohorts born after 1975. Both the...
Playing can be seen as the "gym" of life for children. Therefore we encourage them to pretend-play the real-life ahead of them. However, given the choice,...
With an estimated 3 to 6 percent of the population possibly having compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), it is now being researched like never before....
Mens sana in corpore sano - this old latin way of saying correlates physical health (corpore sano) with mental activity (mens sana). But how can we cope with...
Humans like to think of their judgments as ‘rational’, solely based on objective information. Instead, we have found that people interpret decision-relevant...
Previous research has studied the role of facial muscle movements in the visual transmission of emotion. Here, we hypothesize that blood flow changes, visible...
Throughout history, humans have searched for ways to improve their decisions. The idea of sound judgment attracted philosophers, economists, lawyers and...
Increased regularity of sleep-wake patterns and more sleep: The ‘lockdown’-induced relaxation of social schedules had positive effects on people’s sleep....
Memory may not work in the same way for all humans. One important factor that might affect our ability to store and recall information is the language we...
Anorexia nervosa is a deadly disorder marked by extremely low body weight, a fear of weight gain, and often an inability to appreciate the severity of the...
The social bond between parent and offspring balances selfishness and altruism. We investigated how genes control these behaviors in European earwigs, and...
Your car left you down and you have an airplane to catch...what will you do?
How much people's perceptions of inequality reflect the distribution of opportunities in society and how much they reflect people's own social position? We...
Every day, we interpret the actions of other people in terms of what they want and how hard they’re willing to try.This ability appears to emerge early in...
A stimulus never associated before with danger becomes frightening when elements of a past sensory memory become integrated into a new fear memory. But when...
Are parts in film and TV fairly allocated? How long will an actor or actresses good, or bad, luck last? Can we predict if my favourite actor is going to be...
We find that students are not more stressed or handle their stress differently at different points during the dissertation year. However, stress and coping are...
We are living in an unprecedentedly complex and uncertain world, facing difficult problems such as environmental disasters, economic turmoil, political...
We have tried to keep a distance from each other to curb the early spread of COVID-19. These practices, however, conflict with our needs for social...
