Meeting new people can be a delicate business. How do you make sure that people get a right impression of who you are and what you’re capable of? Many people therefore tend to keep things formal and are hesitant to brag about themselves. But recent research in the Journal for Social Psychological and Personality Science [...]
You’ve heard the stories of people sending embarrassing text messages where they say something they normally wouldn’t or send a risqué picture that they later regret. According to new research, its actually a quantifiable phenomenon: people are more honest in text messages then in voice conversations. The study, which was carried out by researchers at [...]
Are you a sweet tooth? Maybe it’s time to change your high-sugar diet if you want to keep your brains healthy. Eating too much sugar – or rather high-fructose corn syrup added to most processed foods – slows the brain, hampering memory and learning, says new research. Researchers of the University of California Los Angeles [...]
Never underestimate the power and will of a trekkie. An engineer who goes by the internet name BTE Dan is making use of the technical specs of the Starship Enterprise (released by the shows producers), he believes the ship could be built within the next 2 decades! Source: Big Think / Wikimedia Commons
The world is full of of embarrassing conditions you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. Every week, Carian discusses one. This week: Micropsia. Imagine how it would be like, when you have the feeling that you are trapped inside a room that’s far too small. As if you are a giant. Maybe funny when experimenting [...]
New study on adult refugees who suffered the Rwandan genocide shows that people genetically predisposed to having a good memory are more vulnerable to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Researchers at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, found that a gene for the protein PKCA, which allows people to build strong memories, may be linked to [...]
