A night spent dreaming can help you forget the mundane and better process the extreme, according to a new University of California, Irvine study. Novel work by researchers in the UC Irvine Sleep and Cognition Lab examined ...
May 14, 2024
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New insights into how people perceive the human voice are challenging beliefs about which voices we find attractive.
May 14, 2024
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Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to pinpoint the processes behind human decision-making for decades. While their efforts led to numerous interesting insights, the intricacies of complex decision-making remain ...
Revenge is often considered to be socially inappropriate and morally blameworthy—a type of "wild justice." Most people agree that revenge is morally wrong. On the other hand, people do enjoy stories in which the victim ...
May 13, 2024
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There were moments during the COVID-19 pandemic's early days when real life might have felt ripped out of the pages of Stephen King's The Stand, a novel about an extremely contagious and lethal influenza strain that sweeps ...
May 13, 2024
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Young individuals between ages 16 and 18 consuming higher-potency cannabis, such as skunk, are twice as likely to have psychotic experiences from ages 19 to 24 compared to those using lower-potency cannabis. That's according ...
May 13, 2024
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In a world in which it can sometimes feel that bad news lurks around every corner, it can be tough just to get out of bed. But some people seem uniquely able to weather even particularly traumatic or challenging experiences—abuse, ...
May 13, 2024
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Researchers from University of Tsukuba have found that the sense of duration of shared simultaneity increases with the size of the group in which an individual participates. This tendency is more pronounced when a person ...
May 13, 2024
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The origins of consciousness have been debated by philosophers for centuries. Each conscious person has a sense of "being me," which invariably gives rise to the question of where that sense originated—from within or outside ...
May 13, 2024
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As a popular form of entertainment in modern society, the gambling industry has been hailed as "the heart of the economy in the post-industrial era." However, gambling poses serious risks, not only to the financial and psychological ...
May 13, 2024
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