Boston College researcher finds arousal affects receptiveness to advertising's questions and answers

Even a short sleep produces a five-fold improvement in information retrieval from memory

Do you work in customer services? If you do, it is better to express your positive interpersonal  feelings naturally. Suppressing the benevolent interpersonal emotions of employees for customers has a negative impact on customer satisfaction, as indicated for the first time in a new study conducted by Prof. Dana Yagil of the Department of Human Services at the University of Haifa. The study was published in the journal Motivation and Emotion. “Suppression of positive interpersonal emotions is contrary to natural behavior in social interactions,” said the researcher.

Getting rejected hurts depressed people for longer, U-M/Stony Brook/UIC study finds – due to the lack of a natural pain and stress-reducing chemical.

Putting oneself in the customer's shoes makes managers even more likely let their own feelings get in the way

A surprising new study in the Journal of Consumer Research reveals that goal priming can backfire, especially when consumers are in uncommon situations

University of Virginia psychology professor examines the taste system.

A spit test may one day be able to diagnose autism according to researchers at Clarkson University and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

Study finds link between relative lengths of index and ring fingers in men and behaviour towards women

A new study from Lund University in Sweden indicates that inherited viruses that are millions of years old play an important role in building up the complex networks that characterise the human brain.

Unlike other drug addictions, there are no pharmacological treatments for cocaine dependence. According to Arizona State University School of Life Sciences professor Janet Neisewander, it’s because cocaine addiction is tricky.

Game apps rapidly provide inexpensive, continuous sources of data for experiments.