So here’s an interesting study into pain and guilt. The basic idea was to take two groups – one of people who were feeling guilty and one of people who weren’t. You tell them they’re doing a mental acuity task, but actually, you’re measuring the effect of pain on their guilt. So unwittingly, some of [...]

This is an interesting piece of research. A group of participants were shown computer-generated male and female faces whose expressions shifted from contempt to acceptance. The participants were asked to judge at which point the emotion changed. However, the participants were also assessed for their belief that the opposite sex stereotyped them and treated them [...]

An interesting piece of research suggests that speech forms an important of our memories. While that’s quite obvious, some of the more detailed findings are interesting: * Women remember more speech than men. * The more emotionally negative a memory is, the more likely it is to contain speech. Oh dear. Are we all really [...]