Sometimes my wife complains of an earworm--a song that's stuck on a repeating loop in her head. I respond by loudly playing the Lexx theme song a lot. Later, she'll say that that song is stuck in her head. So I'll loudly...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/25/Researchers-Figure-out-How-to-Get-Rid-of-an-Earworm/
(Image credit: Flickr user George Hatcher) by Ali... ...ral Fluid Intelligence". I asked nine experienced psychology professors to define the phrase "general fluid in... ...."An 11:00 a.m. poster session concerned "Applied Psychology ." One poster discoursed on "The Effects of Odor a... ...sA noontime poster...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/16/What-Are-They-Doing-My-Visit-to-a-Psychology-Conference/
Various methods of treatment involve being "reborn," but don't you have to die first to be born again? Perhaps this will help: a psychotherapy in Shenyang, China, simulates death for pat...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/24/The-Death-Experience-Room-To-Be-Reborn-First-You-Have-to-Die/
I've noticed that my two-year old does this when we play hide-and-seek. When she covers her eyes, she thinks that I can't see her. Why? Researchers at the University of Cambridge investigated:In both studies so far, when...
http://www.neatorama.com/neatobambino/2012/10/25/Why-Do-Young-Children-Cover-Their-Eyes-When-Hiding/
Do you feel more confident and powerful after watching a superhero movie? Researchers led by Ariana Young of the University of Buffalo studied this emotional effect. They asked 98 young men how they felt about Batman and...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/22/The-Psychological-Advantage-of-Bonding-with-Batman/
Have you ever seen a résumé written in comic sans? Regardless of the content, the applicant has probably hurt him/herself. Little details in writing, such as the typeface, can subtly persuade or dissuade a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/09/Which-Typeface-Engenders-the-Most-Trust/(YouTube link) You know what they say... if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS. From the YouTube page: In 1970 three American researchers, John E. Ware, Donald H. Naftulin and Frank A. Donnell...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/23/the-dr-fox-lecture/
Marketing lore and common sense tells us we value... ...to research published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology . Experiment 1A: Participants either inspected an...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/23/the-ikea-effect/
Have you ever been told that you need to let y... ...t's completely wrong. Cracked has a great list of psychology myths everyone believes that are utterly and comp...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/05/6-pyschology-myths-everyone-believes/
A study by psychologist Paul Babiak indicates that one in twenty-five leaders could be a psychopath. This affliction could actually be an advantage in a workplace: The survey suggests psychopaths are actually poor man...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/02/psychologist-leaders-are-four-times-as-likely-as-the-average-person-to-be-psychopaths/
