If you don’t notice something within 1.5 seconds, you may never see it
20 November 2019
Inattentional blindness, a kind of selective focus, is so strong that if you don’t notice new objects in your sight line quickly, you may never see them at all
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Strong support for Trump linked to willingness to persecute immigrants
2 September 2019
Surveys have found that people who identify strongly with Donald Trump are more likely to say they are willing to commit violence against immigrants
Aaaaaargh! The true nature of screaming has finally been revealed
18 May 2019
Can you tell the difference between a scream and a whistle? Most people consider rough, high-pitched noises a scream – and 70 per cent were tricked by a whistle
Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role
13 March 2019
Reading the parts of Romeo or Juliet in a brain scanner has shown that actors have less brain activity related to their sense of self when they take on a role
Scientists studied a ‘haunted house’ to understand why we love horror
5 February 2019
To understand why many of us enjoy being scared, a team of scientists studied the people visiting a haunted house set in a dilapidated factory
Young kids are surprisingly bad at using memory to plan ahead
5 July 2018
We used to think children as young as four could plan for the future. But now it seems kids develop the type of memory needed to do this later than we thought
You can tell how tall or strong a person is by hearing them roar
28 June 2018
Both men and women can tell how much taller or stronger another person is by listening to them roar, though men were more sensitive to differences in height
