You spy with your little eye – dogs can adopt the perspective of humans
Humans are able to interpret the behaviour of others by attributing mental states to them (and to themselves). By adopting the perspectives of other persons, they can assume their emotions, needs and...
View ArticleMedia portrayal of public shooters can perpetuate stereotypes
As the pervasiveness of media reports on public shootings increase, the way in which media cover these violent stories can have broad social implications, including the creation and perpetuation of...
View ArticleGerman airlines to scrap 'two-person' cockpit rule
German airlines will no longer require two people to be in the cockpit at all times, an industry group said Friday, abandoning a rule introduced after a deadly crash in 2015.
View ArticleThe dark side of helping coworkers
If you show up at work tired, you may want to focus strictly on your own tasks. New research suggests helping coworkers in the morning can lead to mental exhaustion and self-serving behavior in the...
View ArticleFinding mental disorders with math
What if a brain scan could detect the presence of a mental disorder even before symptoms have emerged? Or predict which depressed patients would respond to a particular medication and which would not?...
View ArticleTwitter's inadequte plan to help young people not get too overwhelmed by bad...
We live in a chronically anxious era, seemingly being bombarded with negative news at every turn. Social media allow us to not only read about tragedies, but also to interact with those who witnessed...
View ArticleFlower power: gardening as therapy in Poland
An elderly woman leans over to smell a lush flowerbed of lavender in sprawling gardens surrounding an imposing early 20th-century palace in a pastoral corner of eastern Poland.
View ArticleEvidence lacking to estimate local government savings from California crime...
While a California ballot initiative reducing penalties for some criminal offenses promised to save local governments money, quantifying such savings will require significant changes in the way local...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence and the coming health revolution
Your next doctor could very well be a bot. And bots, or automated programs, are likely to play a key role in finding cures for some of the most difficult-to-treat diseases and conditions.
View ArticleFarmer suicides rise in India as climate warms, study shows
When Rani's husband died by drinking pesticide, he left the family in debt. But even if they could pay off the loans, Rani said their farming days are over.
View ArticleWhat are our social and psychological responses to environmental disasters?
The Exxon Valdez oil tanker strikes a reef in Prince William Sound in 1989, releasing 11 million gallons of crude oil into the environment. A storm blows in soon after, spreading the oil over more than...
View ArticlePlanners know depressingly little about a city's impacts on our mental health
A large body of research shows that living in cities can harm our health. We know poor urban design can lead to people being less physically active, which is a factor in weight problems, obesity and...
View ArticlePrecarious 'flexible work' affects over four million people in UK—far more...
New analysis by Cambridge and Oxford sociologists indicates that some 4.6 million people in the UK regularly experience 'precarious scheduling': flexible working with limited hours dictated by...
View ArticleA holodeck for flies, fish and mice
How do people orient themselves when they are in a new area? How do we use street signs or houses, for instance, to estimate the distance we have traveled? Put simply: how do we update our mental map?...
View ArticleHow the smartphone affected an entire generation of kids
As someone who researches generational differences, I find one of the most frequent questions I'm asked is "What generation am I in?"
View ArticleYou and some 'cavemen' get a genetic checkup
Had an arrow in his back not felled the legendary Iceman some 5,300 years ago, he would have likely dropped dead from a heart attack. Written in the DNA of his remains was a propensity for...
View ArticleEveryone's an expert, but a computer program may be able to pick the best ones
Combining the intuition of humans with the impartiality of computers could improve decision-making for organizations, eventually leading to lower costs and better profits, according to a team of...
View ArticleRhesus monkeys found to see faces in inanimate objects too
A team of researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has found that rhesus monkeys, like humans, recognize face-like traits in inanimate objects. In their study published in the...
View ArticleNew research strengthens link between mental health and retirement savings
The question of how mental health status affects decisions regarding retirement savings is becoming a pressing issue in the United States. Key factors contributing to this issue include the tenuous...
View ArticleStudy provides new insight toward reducing racial bias in courtroom
The American criminal justice system relies on jurors to regularly decode the mental states of criminal defendants. When those defendants are people of color, decoding minority mental states is a...
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