The famous 1960′s “Marshmallow Experiment” performed by Walter Mischel is a historical study about pre-school children’s ability to delay gratification. Mischel put children alone in a room with a marshmallow and promised the children a second marshmallow if they could wait … Read More
Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot, especially when we’re doing something like tidying the home or lining up face cream bottles or organizing our shoes, or generally just applying excessive … Read More
There’s plenty of evidence that links poverty to poor academic performance, but a new study suggests that the impact of financial hardship start at birth and are detrimental to children’s cognitive development, even more so than family instability. Without adequate … Read More
Most of us have a strong affinity for our morning cup of joe, but a recent study may just make you pass up the daily grinds for a cup of tea. There are over 3 billion cups of tea consumed … Read More
Ever watch a person nervously sweating bullets and stammering his speech throughout a presentation, leaving your stomach turning into a ball of knots for him? This I-am-dying-inside-for-him feeling is called “vicarious embarrassment.” Researchers from Germany wanted to understand more about … Read More
Most of us have been to a college party and had too much to drink. But drinking too much at one time may actually affect our brain function and memory. Binge drinking is the consumption of large quantities of alcohol … Read More
Names, phone numbers, passwords: they’re all things we swear we’ll be able to remember later, but when it’s time to recall them, we often find ourselves at a loss. Why does our memory fail us? Perhaps because we don’t understand … Read More
We have all experienced feelings of anxiety before important events such as a big test, a presentation, or a first date. But when and how does stress become a life altering anxiety disorder? A recent study suggests that how people’s … Read More
