Voters value intentions over outcomes in reelection decisions, experiment suggests
On the road to reelection, the research suggests, incumbents should claim credit for positive outcomes (as they do), but also ...
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Gina Perry
The Age, The Australian, Cosmos and New Scientist. Gina’s co-production of an ABC Radio documentary about Milgram's obedience ...
New docuseries reveals untold stories from the Stanford Prison Experiment
Unlocking The Truth is an explosive new docuseries which takes an unprecedented look at one of history’s most notorious psycholo ...
Why Is the Infamous – and Flawed – Stanford Prison Experiment Still So Influential?
A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges the claims of one of psychology’s ...
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The Real Deal: Why Authenticity Captivates Us
Authentic paintings activated a brain region tied to consciousness, self-awareness, and personal memory. Real art has a ...
How does the brain encode pain? Scientists uncover neuronal mechanisms in the cortex
A research team at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has revealed that parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) preferentially encode pain ...
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Is Brainwashing Possible? Here's What History Says
Could "Big Brother" gaslight you into believing that "war is peace"? Sandra Newman's retelling of the novel 1984 offers a new ...