Psychology
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Big score for the hot hand
Hot hands exist in professional volleyball and influence game strategy.
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Europeans’ heartfelt ignorance
Many people in nine countries don't know how to recognize or react to heart attacks and strokes.
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Face deficit holds object lesson
A brain-damaged man yields controversial clues to how people identify complex objects.
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Babies may benefit from moms’ lasting melancholy
Fetuses pick up on maternal depression and thrive after birth if mothers don’t get better, a new study suggests.
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Skateboarders rock physics
Skateboarding develops intuition about slope speeds unavailable to most people.
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‘Gorilla man’ goes unheard
Paying attention to what others say can make listeners totally unaware of unexpected sounds.
- Psychology
Digital bounty hunters unleashed
Internet technique shows promise as fast way to mobilize huge problem-solving teams.
- Psychology
Learning to walk on err
Flub-inducing treadmill tasks aid motor learning, with rehab implications.
- Psychology
Teen daters pal up to the bottle
Buddies of boyfriends and girlfriends push teens toward or away from booze.
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Same face, different person
Photos of a stranger’s mug can look like many unfamiliar people to an observer, complicating facial recognition research.
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Men’s spatial superiority takes cultural cues
Some societies may nurture comparable spatial skills in males and females.
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