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The Psychology Behind Wide Receivers’ Jersey Numbers
A new study explains why wide receivers on professional football teams feel slimmer and faster when they wear smaller numbers.
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A new study explains why wide receivers on professional football teams feel slimmer and faster when they wear smaller numbers.
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Researchers have created a new system to test influential papers for reproducibility.
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China tops the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and the psychological toll of autonomous vehicles.
An update on the methane gas leak in California, how how human psychology predisposes us to take the grifter’s bait, and using photonic devices to build a better light bulb.
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In “The Confidence Game,” Maria Konnikova explains how human psychology predisposes us to take the grifter’s bait.
A look at this week in science, cognitive neuroscientist Colin Ellard studies how our streetscapes shape our bodies, brains, and behavior, and scientists hunt for dark matter deep below the Earth’s surface.
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How do our expectations, environment, and social cues trick us into believing our wine tastes better or worse?
How do expectations, environment, and social cues fool us into believing that our wine tastes better or worse than it is?
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A psychology study found that bar graphs representing averages were prone to misinterpretation. Plus, how to improve your data literacy.
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Our understanding of psychology has evolved in the century since Carl Jung coined the term “introvert.”