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> What your Facebook picture reveals
What kind of profile picture do you have on Facebook? Is it a close-up shot of your lovely face with little background visible? Or is it zoomed out, s...
> Summer camp helps ADHD children
A team of German psychologists has published a new report looking at the benefits of combining drug treatment for ADHD with an intensive Summer C...
> Phineas Gage still haunts neuroscience
Seven years after his death, Phineas Gage's body was dug out of the ground and his skull passed to a doctor, John Harlow, who'd treated him in life....
> The man who can remember everything
For most of us, it's tricky enough to remember what we were doing this time last week, let alone on some random day years ago....
> Smile your way to a vegetable-loving child
Maybe you've tried giving them names. Or perhaps you've made noises of gastronomic delight. But still your young child refuses to eat their greens....
> When are two heads better than one?
The Challenger disaster, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the botched invasion of Iraq ... all these historical calamities have been blamed on dud group decisi...
> Skilled liars make great lie detectors
Frank Abagnale Jr, the confidence trickster who inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can", later became a security consultant for the FBI....
> Comforting struggling students can backfire
Previous research tells us that students who see intelligence and ability as fixed will tend to give up when confronted by a difficult problem, w...
> Feeling chilly? Then try a little nostalgia
Over recent years a body of research has accumulated showing the psychological benefits of nostalgia. For example, reminiscing about the past can comb...
> Young male drivers prone to sleepiness
One might imagine the vigour of youth would allow young men to shrug off the effects of a lack of sleep....
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