Psychology

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::	Psychology

Top Stories | February 12

Vodka delivers shot of creativity
Alcohol intoxication raises men’s performance on a test of verbal ingenuity.
Fighting willpower’s catch-22
Avoiding daily temptations works better than using willpower, which has oddly unintended effects.
Babies lip-read before talking
Tots acquire the gift of gab by matching adults’ mouth movements to spoken words.
Big score for the hot hand
Hot hands exist in professional volleyball and influence game strategy.
Europeans' heartfelt ignorance
Many people in nine countries don't know how to recognize or react to heart attacks and strokes.

:: More in Psychology

Many people in nine countries don't know how to recognize or react to heart attacks and strokes.

A brain-damaged man yields controversial clues to how people identify complex objects.

Fetuses pick up on maternal depression and thrive after birth if mothers don’t get better, a new study suggests.

Skateboarding develops intuition about slope speeds unavailable to most people.

Paying attention to what others say can make listeners totally unaware of unexpected sounds.

:: Science News
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Hot hands exist in professional volleyball and influence game strategy.

Tots acquire the gift of gab by matching adults’ mouth movements to spoken words.

Many people in nine countries don't know how to recognize or react to heart attacks and strokes.

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