Category: People

People plan less when the future becomes harder to predict, experiments find

Three experiments with 300 adults found people spent less effort planning as rewards became less...

Reward-linked distractions slowed responses only when people attended to the predictive feature

A preregistered experiment with 153 participants found reward-linked distractions slowed responses when people selectively attended...

People valued social experiences more, but social support and autistic traits strongly shaped the difference

In a 292-person experiment, social experiences held a small average advantage, while social support and...

New coworker support scale shows why celebrating good times matters at work

A study of 626 Chinese hospital employees validated an 18-item scale that measures coworker support...

Speaking with your hands subtly destabilised balance in 41-adult experiment

A 41-adult experiment found that speaking while gesturing increased postural sway and recruited overlapping motor-cognitive...

Attention-priority training improved near-transfer multitasking in 38 older adults

A pilot randomized trial found that older adults trained to deliberately shift attention priorities improved...

1.14-million-person study mapped 1,260 genetic variants linked to the Big Five personality traits

A Nature study across 46 cohorts identified 1,260 genetic variants linked to the Big Five,...

Sunday Blues were more than anxiety in employees, with 24 coping strategies identified

Focus groups with 26 employees found the Sunday Blues involved emotional, physical, cognitive and behavioural...

Resistance-band warm-up increased elite karate punch speed by 14% after eight minutes

A crossover study of 15 elite male Shotokan karate athletes found that resistance-band conditioning was...

Authoritative parenting was positively linked to adolescent self-perception in study of 416 families

A study of 416 adolescent-parent pairs in Ankara found that authoritative parenting was positively associated...

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