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Can walking through a doorway make you forget? & Dr Karls Great Moments In Science (ABC Science)
Dr Karl › Dr Karl's Great Moments In Science If you experience memory lapses when moving from one room to the next then you're not alone. Dr Karl wonders why we sometimes forget what we came for.
IQ Drops When You're In a Group | Psych Central News - StumbleUpon
By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 24, 2012 Provocative new research discovers small-group dynamics can lower the expression of IQ in some susceptible people. In the study, researchers determined IQ is significantly linked to social context.
Why Humans Are So Smart…and Groovy | Psychology Today | science talks | Scoop.it
Grooved fingers make us smart. ...as do grooved brains. When you are next in the shower, take a look at your wrinkled fingers. They aren't pretty to look at, but they help make you smart. Pruney fingers are not an accidental side effect of getting soaked as is typically believed, but are, instead, highly efficient rain treads that help us primates grip the world when it is wet ( something we've recently been studying in the lab ). Without wrinkled fingers you would need to possess two categories of behavior, one for dry conditions, and one for wet.
Penn State Live - Psychologists chase down sleep demons
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- What do Moby Dick, the Salem witch trials and alien abductions all have in common? They all circle back to sleep paralysis. Less than 8 percent of the general population experiences sleep paralysis, but it is more frequent in two groups -- students and psychiatric patients -- according to a new study by psychologists at Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania. Sleep paralysis is defined as "a discrete period of time during which voluntary muscle movement is inhibited, yet ocular and respiratory movements are intact," the researchers state in the current issue of Sleep Medicine Reviews. Hallucinations may also be present in these transitions to or from sleep. Alien abductions and incubi and succubi, as well as other demons that attack while people are asleep, are implicated as different cultural interpretations of sleep paralysis.
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August 5, 2002 ANNALS OF PSYCHOLOGY Can you read people's thoughts just by looking at them? Some years ago, John Yarbrough was working patrol for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. It was about two in the morning. He and his partner were in the Willowbrook section of South Central Los Angeles, and they pulled over a sports car. "Dark, nighttime, average stop," Yarbrough recalls.
Seeing in the Dark & SEEDMAGAZINE.COM - StumbleUpon
Credit: cliff1066 tm . Patient TN was, by his own account, completely blind.10 Psychological Experiments That Went Horribly Wrong
Psychology as we know it is a relatively young science, but since its inception it has helped us to gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our interactions with the world. Many psychological experiments have been valid and ethical, allowing researchers to make new treatments and therapies available, and giving other insights into our motivations and actions. Sadly, others have ended up backfiring horribly — ruining lives and shaming the profession. Here are ten psychological experiments that spiraled out of control. 10. Stanford Prison Experiment