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Revenge fantasies can be satisfying but are they dangerous? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:11 am
Revenge fantasies aren't just satisfying, research shows they can have meaningful therapeutic benefits for victims of violence and abuse, including a restored sense of control. What about the draw-bac...
"I'm really good with my hands and I hit him" - Children's descriptions of harming siblings and friends 22 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
The capacity for animosity between child siblings is legendary. Psychologist Judy Dunn has described the "devastating lack of inhibition". Stephen Bank and Michael Kahn wrote about a relationship "emo...
Conspiracy theorists are more focused on discrediting official accounts than proposing their own 20 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
We tend to think of conspiracy theorists as being fixated on far-fetched explanations. In fact they are not so much concerned with providing alternative accounts of historical events, rather they are ...
The supposed benefits of open-plan offices do not outweigh the costs 19 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
The worlds of business, office design and psychology really need to get their heads together. Large open-plan offices have become the norm across modern cities despite a sizeable literature documentin...
Things you might want to know about people who believe in pure evil 15 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
Psychologists have devised two new scales for assessing people's belief in pure evil and pure good - characteristics they say have important links with broader attitudes towards altruism and the use o...
Neuroscience lessons in body awareness from the man with two hearts 13 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
Researchers have been taking a keen interest lately in how the brain represents the internal state of the body - a process called interoceptive awareness (IA). There's evidence that poor IA is associa...
Intelligence agents more prone to irrational decision making than students 12 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
Bauer, Bond, Salt and their real-life counterparts have ample experience making tough choices between risky options. You'd think this would be a good thing but psychology research shows expertise can ...
Link feast 9 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
In case you missed them, 10 of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week: Steve Pinker wrote a magisterial essay this week on why science, including psychology and neuroscience, i...
Young children trust kindness over expertise 8 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
Young children are surprisingly discerning. By age three they are already more trusting of claims made by nice people. Slightly older and they also understand expertise: four- and five-year-olds reali...
Extras 7 Aug 2013 | 02:14 pm
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: "In two experiments we showed that exposure to an incidental black and white visual contrast leads people to think in a 'black and white' manner" ...
