Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer carried out a study demonstrating the power of language – adding one word to a simple request increased compliance rates by 33%.
“The Mozart Effect” made millions of dollars in the nineties by targeting parents. Aging people spend money on cognitive enhancing supplements to restore the processing speed they once had, while others play Sudoku hoping to improve their IQ. Why?
Continue Reading →Evolutionary psychology study: Men under the observation of female researchers are more generous with money than men under the observation of male researchers.
Continue Reading →Researchers at West Virginia University studied the positive effects of DHA in helping the brain recover from trauma.
Continue Reading →Daphne Bavelier, Professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, says action-based video games enhance visual search skills in players – based on a study with gamers and non-gamers.
Continue Reading →A study indicates that women dig narcissistic, psychopathic and Machiavellian bad boys.
Continue Reading →A previous Cognizance post examined how will-power is an exhaustible resource. It turns out skepticism is too, if you’re gullible to begin with.
Continue Reading →Nodding your head up and down strengthens the perceived validity of whatever you’re thinking at the time. Shaking your head does the opposite.
Continue Reading →The influential philosophy professor, John Searle, created the Chinese Room Argument in 1980. It was written to demonstrate a simple point –intelligent behavior does not equal intelligence. This doesn’t mean A.I. design is impossible. It just means a behavioral-based model for intelligence is flawed.
Continue Reading →According to psychologists, there’s a limit to how much will-power mortals can exercise at once. College students were the subject of this study.
Continue Reading →How detrimental is technological multitasking in the workplace?
Continue Reading →Can caffeine can slow Alzeimer’s disease? The following studies were funded by the The Industrial and Commercial Association of Coffee. Despite the potential for biased results, this data actually provides some scientific evidence that caffeine can slow Alzeimer’s disease.
Continue Reading →Feet don’t usually come to mind when you think about body language, but they offer valuable information to help you develop rapport with others more effectively…
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