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Poker pros’ arms betray their hands
Top players' arm motions when betting provide clues to whether or not they hold strong cards.
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Bad acts spark a ‘cheater’s high’
Committing low-stakes acts of dishonesty enhances perpetrators’ moods.
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Behind the Shock Machine
The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments by Gina Perry.
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Poverty may tax thinking abilities
Scarce funds reduce mental abilities of U.S. shoppers and Indian farmers, experiments suggest.
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Behavioral research may overstate results
'Soft' sciences inflate support for what scientists expected to find, data check suggests.
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Familiar faces
"Super recognizers" never forget a visage, an unusual ability that can be put to good use.
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Blood marker may predict suicide
People who killed themselves had higher levels of a gene involved in cell death.
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Highlights from the American Sociological Association annual meeting
Research on social media's reluctant users, marital ideals and single parenthood and intimate victims of cybernastiness presented August 10-13 in New York City.
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Mental disorder seen as ‘badness, not sickness’
Health workers tend to consider borderline personality disorder a tag for patients who are difficult or impossible to treat.
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Ratio for a good life exposed as ‘nonsense’
A heralded calculation of people’s ability to flourish is a mathematical mirage, researchers say.
