Psychology Update — Psychopaths May Be Immune To Contagious Yawning

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TITLE Psychopaths May Be Immune To Contagious Yawning DESCRIPTION “In the study, which will be published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in November, psychologists from Baylor University in Texas showed that people who are more coldhearted are less likely to engage in the natural behavior of “catching” yawns.”  In this research, students were… Read more »

When White People See Themselves With Black Skin, Something Interesting Happens

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Description: This Huffington Post article cites a study from the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences. It discusses how researchers using virtual reality experiments gave their subjects the opportunity to experience their bodies with different color skins, ages, and gender. The results suggested that unconscious racial biases could be reduced by having an individual become more… Read more »