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Listening, speaking — what’s the difference?
Did you take a foreign language, like Spanish, in high school or college? You might still be able to understand a little Spanish, but you wouldn’t be able to say a whole sentence if your life...
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Don’t read this article and drive
Is this a good idea? Does your best friend put on makeup and eat barbecue (weird right) while driving? Do you shake your head, disbelieving and worried, when she tells you, “But I’m great at...
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Educational applications: moving too fast?
These days there is a lot of talk about “educational applications” of research in psychology. More than ever before, funding organizations (like the National Science Foundation) are putting the...
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Horizontal Stripes: Friend or Foe?
For years, the fashion world has told us that vertical stripes make the body look slimmer because they draw the eyes up and down. Horizontal stripes supposedly do the exact opposite, drawing attention...
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You may have seen commercials for Limitless, a movie opening this weekend. The trailers show a disheveled Bradley Cooper taking a pill that will allow him to use 100% of his brain instead of the 20%...
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Visual clutter: It’s worse than you think
Take a look at your desk—is it full of junk? If so, you may be thinking that, while it’s not an ideal situation, your messy desk isn’t so bad. Sure, it takes you a little longer to find stuff, but...
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Eyes on the back of your head
When you’re sitting in a public place, do you ever “feel someone looking at you” — and then turn around to find out it’s true? In the scientific community, people have investigated whether it’s...
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Does your Wii know you’re lying?
Your mother always told you not to lie: it’s easier to tell the truth. She wasn’t pulling your leg: Duran, Dale, and McNamara (2010) recently showed that lying can physically pull you in two...
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Monkey talk: a powerful baby-teaching tool
What do you see in this picture? Now ask yourself: What do you know about this creature? You probably came up with at least a couple facts: it’s a kind of reptile, it’s huge, it went extinct millions...
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Baby lip reading
It’s a good thing that the movie Inglourious Basterds has subtitles, because everyone except the Americans are always switching languages. Now imagine that you see a silent clip from the movie — do you...
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