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Who is who? Gonzalo Arnaiz/Unspash

Do you look like your name?

Eight studies have found that when people were shown ID-style photos of people they’d never met, they were often able to correctly select the person’s first name.
Don’t underestimate what I get about the world around me. Baby image via www.shutterstock.com.

Children understand far more about other minds than long believed

A revolution in the tools and techniques developmental psychologists use to investigate kids’ knowledge and capabilities is rewriting what we know about how and when children understand their world.
This is your brain on plugs. 'Brain' via www.shutterstock.com

What’s behind phantom cellphone buzzes?

Have you ever checked your phone thinking you had felt it vibrate or heard it ring, only to see that no one tried to reach you? One researcher decided to study this phenomenon.
Online tools are changing the way psychology research is conducted. Shutterstock

Psychology turns to online crowdsourcing to study the mind, but it’s not without its pitfalls

Tools like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk allow psychology researchers to recruit test subjects from around the world. But the system can also be exploited.
People’s sense of self is partly determined by the groups to which they belong: “I’m a smoker”. moriza/flickr

Goodbye glamour-puss and rugged hero: smokers lose brand identity with plain cigarette packaging

Cigarette brands present images of slender, stylish women and strong, independent men. Plain packaging breaks this positive brand identity for some smokers.
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Do smaller plates make you eat less? No

It’s an idea that keeps returning, but there’s not convincing evidence to show eating from smaller plates will make a difference to obesity levels.

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