by Craig Marker | Mar 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Brian Wasnick, author of Mindless Eating:In a recent study, researchers from my Cornell Food Lab asked 133 participants from Paris and 145 from Chicago to complete a brief survey on their food habits, posing the question “How do you know when you are...
by Craig Marker | Mar 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt about different costs of a placebo:Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University in North Carolina, and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tested 82 volunteers.All got a light electric shock and were offered what they were told...
by Craig Marker | Mar 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the BPS Blog:Aspects of the environment that indicate danger – from flashing lights to a mere exclamation mark – lead us to make faster and more extreme judgements about fairness.Kees van den Bos and colleagues say this happens because when...
by Craig Marker | Mar 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Psychology Today:See, it comes down to math. All steroids are hormones and all hormones begin life as cholesterol. The body turns cholesterol into progesterone, estrogen, DHEA, testosterone and cortisol, but these aren’t the only possibilities....
