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What makes us more likely to remember dreams?
24 February 2025
Our age, attitude to dreams, and how long we spend in lighter stages of sleep all influence dream recall, according to a new experiment.
Humans aren’t the only ones whose social circles shrink in old age
24 March 2025
New comparative studies illustrate similar social dynamics elsewhere in the animal kingdom.
Money can be WEIRDly motivating
11 November 2024
New research finds that those from WEIRD societies find money more incentivising than their non-WEIRD counterparts.
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Pandemic kids more likely to struggle identifying false beliefs
20 February 2025
Recent work investigates Theory of Mind in children who lived through the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Could paranoia be a visual issue?
07 February 2025
According to new research, visual ‘social hallucinations’ may be partly to blame for paranoia.
Quarantine and questioning: gender identity journeys through the pandemic
03 February 2025
New work explores the influence of the Covid pandemic on gender identity in trans and gender diverse youth.
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