Three stories about researchers who have dabbled in self-experimentation – with varying results.
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Does gold go to the best snowboarders or the ones with the best place in the order?
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Whether it’s items in a shop, potential speed-dating matches or athletes competing one after another, the order in which they’re presented affects our judgments.
Health professionals needs to be skilled in understanding what the other person is going through, so they can respond appropriately.
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For over two decades, psychologists and communication scholars have been seriously studying the degree a person is able to correctly understand another’s unsaid thoughts or feelings.
Yeah, I’m not hearing that.
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Quirks of human psychology can pose problems for science communicators trying to cover controversial topics. Recognizing what cognitive science knows about how we deal with new information could help.
Researchers have examined whether it is possible to increase empathy through formal training.
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Some people are good at understanding the emotions of others but not at feeling them or commenting on them. So can we teach people the parts they lack?
Many animals might show signs of mimicry or emotional contagion to another animal in pain.
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The ethics and psychology of trust suggest ways we might learn to understand self-driving cars, but also show why doing so might be more challenging than we expect.
If you want your New Year’s resolutions to last longer than the party, you need to create new habits. But how?
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