People who are rewarded for making correct decisions learn quickly. While the "carrot" approach may produce favorable results, little is understood about how rewards facilitate the learning process.
How can we improve the science and practice of psychological science? The journal Perspectives on Psychological Science has published an unmissable open-access issue all about how we can improve psychological research. There are 26 articles in all, focusing on how psychological research is conducted, reviewed and published, as well as papers on the teaching of psychology and the application of psychology in the real world.Perhaps most enjoyable is a piece by David
How Brain Remembers Single Events Single events account for many of our most vivid memories -- a marriage proposal, a wedding toast, a baby's birth. Until a recent discovery, however, scientists knew little about what happens inside the brain that allows you to remember such events.
Depressed People Have Trouble Learning 'Good Things In Life' While depression is often linked to negative thoughts and emotions, a new study suggests the real problem may be a failure to appreciate positive experiences. Researchers found that depressed and non-depressed people were about equal in their ability to learn negative information that was presented to them.
How quickly can we tell whether one person has the hots for another? People can recognise, from just ten seconds of video footage, whether one person has the hots for another.Skyler Place and colleagues made their finding using footage of couples on speed-dates. Fifty-four students observed dozens of 10-, 20- or 30-second clips of real speed dating interactions and attempted to say in each case whether each person was romantically interested in the other.The resea
Reward Elicits Unconscious Learning In Humans A new study challenges the prevailing assumption that you must pay attention to something in order to learn it. The research demonstrates that stimulus-reward pairing can elicit visual learning in adults, even without awareness of the stimulus presentation or reward contingencies.
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