Posts from Percolator
Can it really be that a fondness for sweets means you’re a “sweeter” person? Or is this new subfield of psychology total bunk?
A new study suggests that playing video games makes us … less spiritual.
A new study on the health benefits found mixed—but fascinating—results.
The sign language used by black deaf Americans developed separately from the ASL used by whites. A scholar at the annual Linguistic Society of America conference called for more research on the differences.
The more you know about people, researchers found, the less you like them. But more-recent work suggests otherwise.
Researchers are encouraged by newly released results of a project that successfully replicated 10 of 13 psychological studies. The project, conducted by a large international consortium, was set up in response to findings in recent years that many psychological studies, including classic…
A pediatrics professor said he had asked that his name be removed from a 2003 article used to market the schizophrenia drug Risperdal to children. The journal’s publisher refused.
Scientists debate whether nature can protect us from disease.
An evolutionary biologist at the University of British Columbia suggests ways to account for nature’s cultural value.
The problems with peer review that the “Science” article revealed may exist at traditional publications, too.