Humans can detect about one trillion different odors and have just as good a sense of smell as animals, suggests a new study.
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When it comes to our sense of smell, we have been led to...
Liam Satchell with a participant.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Portsmouth
The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new exploratory study from the University of Portsmouth has found.
The researchers from the Department of Psychology...
Compared with the total time spent on social media, use of multiple platforms is more strongly associated with depression and anxiety among young adults.Credit: Flickr/Nan Palmero
Compared with the total time spent on social media, use of multiple platforms is...
The study found no evidence of the commonly held belief that women can recognize faces more accurately than men.
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Despite conventional wisdom that suggests women are better than men at facial recognition, Penn State psychologists found no difference...
Reframing how we think about a situation is a common strategy for managing our emotions, but a new study suggests that using this reappraisal strategy in situations we actually have control over may be associated with lower well-being. Image...
The line between online content written by journalists and story-like ads that are paid for by specific corporations can be blurry, but, according to a new study, consumers don't seem to mind -- as long as the content meets...
What's in a tweet? From gender to education, the words used on social media carry impressions to others. Using publicly available tweets, social psychologists and computer scientists from the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, Germany, and Australia are...
