We can then use medical and psychological science to understand how problems might have originated, and recommend therapeutic solutions.
The study, which was just published in Psychological Science, had volunteers read a scenario where an individual with power made a mistake.
FORBES: Are Women in Traditionally-Male Professions More Scrutinized?
The conclusion, which Dr Ferguson reports in a paper in Psychological Science, was that participants' voting intentions were, indeed, affected by seeing the flag.
ECONOMIST: The Stars and Stripes may change the outcomes of elections
Such apathy is often put down to tiredness, but a study published recently in Psychological Science suggests there may be more to it than that.
Norton and several colleagues documented this phenomenon in a study that they described in an article for the journal Psychological Science, Color Blindness and Interracial Interaction.
FORBES: The Case Against Racial Colorblindness in the Workplace
The study was conducted by David Kille, Amanda Forest and Joanne Wood at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, and will be published soon in Psychological Science.
In fact, a new study in Psychological Science by Dr. Rhodes and Lisa Chalik suggests that this intuitive social theory may even influence how children develop moral distinctions.
Mind-wandering, often seen as daydreaming, allows the brain to incubate new approaches to familiar problems, serving "as a foundation for creative inspiration, " says the 2012 study in Psychological Science.
Men with wider faces not only are perceived as untrustworthy, they may deserve the reputation, according to an article in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science.
This week, a new paper will be published in the APS journal, Psychological Science, that supports our predisposition to being control freaks, particularly when it comes to the workplace.
The notion that working long hours and not taking holidays makes for a more productive workforce is, in my view, a managerial myth, with no foundation in organizational or psychological science.
The study is published in the journal Psychological Science.
BBC: Green spaces boosts wellbeing of urban dwellers - study
According to research led by Kevin Rounding at Queen's University in Ontario and recently published in Psychological Science, Rabbi Wolpe is right: People are better able to resist their desires when thinking about God.
WSJ: Jonah Lehrer on Religious Thoughts and Self-Control | Head Case
Walking away from a problem to do simple, routine tasks, and letting the mind wander in the process, can spark creative new connections or approaches to solving dilemmas, says a 2012 study in Psychological Science.
Dr Bastian reports in Psychological Science that those who wrote about immoral behaviour exposed themselves to the ice for an average of 86.7 seconds whereas those who had written about everyday experiences exposed themselves for an average of only 64.4.
ECONOMIST: Religion got it right: pain seems to assuage guilt
The results of their study, which are about to be published in Psychological Science, show that both the students' assessments of the leadership potential of the bosses and their ratings for the traits of competence, dominance and facial maturity were significantly related to a company's profits.
That helps explain why "a lot of great ideas occur at transition times, " when people are waking up or falling asleep, bathing, showering or jogging, says Jennifer Wiley, a psychology professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and lead author of a 2012 research summary in Current Directions in Psychological Science.
You can see the full study (at an extravagant price), published in the May issue of the scholarly journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, here.
FORBES: If You Want Honest Investment Advice, Only Get It One-on-One
Franz Hefti, a vice president at Avid Radiopharmaceuticals who used to head neuroscience research at Merck and Genentech, says that at least one large pharma firm has in the last several years quashed a candidate similar to lorcaserin, not because of any science but because of the psychological link to the fen-phen disaster.
Last week the journal Science published news of a fascinating psychological study, involving 19, 000 people ages 18 to 68, in which subjects consistently underestimated the degree to which they would change in the future, even though they knew how much they had changed in the past.
WSJ: Film Review: Life, Not by the Numbers by Joe Morgenstern
In the next few days, high temperatures will be between 35 degrees Celsius and 40 degrees Celsius, the latter temperature being a key "psychological barrier" that Moscow has never crossed, said Dmitry Kiktev, deputy director for science at official forecaster GidroMetTsentr.
应用推荐