Archive for October, 2008
Men are better at detecting infidelities
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Men are better at detecting their partner's infidelities than women. In a US study of heterosexual couples, 80 percent of women's inferences about fidelity or infidelity were correct, while men were accurate 94 percent of the time.
Our cheatin’ brain: The brain’s clever way of showing us the world as a whole
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Boundary extension is a mistake that we often make when recalling a view of a scene -- we will insist that the boundaries of an image stretched out farther than what we actually saw. Results of a new study indicate that boundary extension occurs when a scene is interrupted for as little as 42 milliseconds (quicker than an eye blink!) and even when volunteers know exactly what is being tested.