Psychology
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Two heads sometimes better than one
Group decisions rise or fall based on what the most confident member knows or doesn’t know.
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Autism rates rise again
Related developmental disorders affect 1.1 percent of U.S. 8-year-olds.
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Visions For All
People who report vivid religious experiences may hold clues to nonpsychotic hallucinations.
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Pi master’s storied recall
Remembering more than 60,000 consecutive numbers takes exhaustive practice at spinning yarns.
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Kids flex cultural muscles
Young children, but not chimps or monkeys, generate collective leaps of knowledge.
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Vodka delivers shot of creativity
Alcohol intoxication raises men’s performance on a test of verbal ingenuity.
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Fighting willpower’s catch-22
Avoiding daily temptations works better than using willpower, which has oddly unintended effects.
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Babies lip-read before talking
Tots acquire the gift of gab by matching adults’ mouth movements to spoken words.
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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.
