Social priming is the field of research about how thinking about or interacting with something (like warm coffee, or old age) can affect later, vaguely related behaviour. (Rolf Zwaan has a useful ...

This post is in response to Why There Are Sex Differences in General Knowledge By Scott A. McGreal MSc. As noted in a previous posting, a number of studies have found that males outperform females on ...

Three years ago, a team of psychologists challenged 180 students with a spatial puzzle. The students could ask for a hint if they got stuck. But before the test, the researchers introduced some subtle ...