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> People's beliefs about memory problems
We think of memory complaints as being more common among older people. A recent colloquialism has even emerged for older folk to refer good humouredly...
> How not to spot personality test fakers
Personality tests are an effective recruitment tool: higher scorers on conscientiousness and lower scorers on neuroticism tend to perform better in th...
> Brain training for babies actually works
Products designed to give babies and young children an educational headstart are hugely popular but they're mostly backed up by weak science....
> Psychology helped find a lost battleship
The next time an ignoramus asks you what psychology has ever achieved, here's a new answer for you: it only helped in the 2008 discovery of the Austra...
> At what age do girls prefer pink?
Crudely speaking, the psychological field of gender development is split between those who see gender differences as learned via socially constructed ...
> Children with autism have special abilities
Developmental disorders are usually thought about in terms of their impairments. But a welcome trend in recent years is to document their ad...
> What job assessment measures measure
While we know that modern selection procedures such as ability tests and structured interviews are successful in predicting job performance, it's much...
> Animal-sensitive cells in the human brain
A part of the human brain that's involved in emotion gets particularly excited at the sight of animals, a new study has shown....
> Why prolific gossipers are not popular
Gossip might be the social glue that binds us, but prolific proponents of tittle-tattle should beware - gossipers are perceived not just as unlikeable...
> The personality of companies
When we think about other people, we do so in terms that can be boiled down to five discrete personality dimensions: extraversion, introversion, neuro...
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