Psychology

Psychology

Wave of resilience

Indian survivors of the devastating Asian tsunami employed spiritual and community coping strategies to regain emotional balance

Psychology

Simpleminded Voters

An innovative research technique has led researchers to conclude that well-informed voters often use simple rules of thumb to sift through mountains of campaign information and pick the candidate who best reflects their own political views.

Humans

Worth the cooties

Boys who attend preschool classes with a majority of girls do better developmentally than other boys.

Anthropology

Numbers beyond words

New research with Amazonian villagers suggests that their language lacks number words but that they still comprehend precise quantities of objects.

Humans

Symbolic snacks

Capuchin monkeys can reason with tokens as they do with different foods, demonstrating a basic capacity for thinking symbolically.

Animals

Courting both ways

Some extra dopamine, and male fruit flies like boys too.

Health & Medicine

Mondo bizarro

Psychiatrists measuring the degree of similarity between dreams and psychotic ruminations report some strange features common to both.

Psychology

Smarten up

Taxing memory training produces at least short-term increases in a critical type of intelligence.

Health & Medicine

Asperger’s syndrome may not lead to lack of empathy

People with high-functioning autism respond to others' pain, two studies show.

Psychology

Democracy Threatened by Lack of Neighborliness