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Matt Walker: Secrets of the Sleeping Brain | FORA.tvWhy do we sleep? Although science has yet to explain the reason we spend one-third of our lives in this bizarre state, an exciting theory suggests that sleep can solidify newly learned memories by rewiring the architecture of brain. Emerging neuroscience evidence also indicates that sleep can ...
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An Easy Way to Increase Creativity: Why thinking about distant things can make us more creative | Scientific American"Over the past several years, however, social psychologists have discovered that creativity is not only a characteristic of the individual, but may also change depending on the situation and context. (...) According to the construal level theory (CLT) of psychological distance, anything that we ...
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How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood: Scientific American# Architects have long intuited that the places we inhabit can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Now behavioral scientists are giving their hunches an empirical basis. # Scientists are unearthing tantalizing clues about how to design spaces that promote creativity, keep students ...
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Sex-related similarities and differences in the neural correlates of beauty — PNASThe capacity to appreciate beauty is one of our species' most remarkable traits. Although knowledge about its neural correlates is growing, little is known about any gender-related differences. We have explored possible differences between men and women's neural correlates of aesthetic ...
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Should Racially Fair Juries Be Picked by Mind-Reading? | Wired Science from Wired.comRather than asking prospective jurors if they are racist, the legal system could use established behavioral tests to determine racial bias -- and these tests, though imperfect, would almost certainly be more accurate.So why not do this? Because people shouldn't be held responsible for their ...
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The Attitude-Behaviour Gap: Why We Say One Thing But Do The OppositeMind-myth 4: It's only natural to think a person's attitudes and behaviours are directly related. If someone says, while truly believing it, that they're not a racist, you'd expect them to behave consistently with that statement. Despite this, psychologists have found that the link between a ...
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Dion Almaer's Blog - techno.blog("Dion")I also got to see a fantastic and entertaining talk at Google that is now on YouTube. The talk was by Dan Ariely, an MIT professor working on Behavioural Economics. Really though, it was one of those talks that reminds you that us humans…. we are animals man. Professor Dan Ariely visits ...
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