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● Stretched faces remarkably easy to recognize [study]

● De-humanizing Humanoid Robots [study]

● Honqi “Car Face” design implications [study]

● Musical instruments – masculine or feminine? [study]

● The Need for Justifiable Busyness [study]

● How Much Older Do You Get When a Wrinkle Appears on Your Face? [study]

● AI and the Duck / Rabbit illusion [an improbable experiment]

● Right-wing authoritarians aren’t very funny [study]

● Smiling and grimacing can reduce needle injection pain [study]

● Boredom at the cinema – an exploration [study]

● Holes around holes of little or no benefit in golf putting [new study]

● The ‘Rocking Chair Paradigm’ [study]

● “Humans smell in stereo” [new study]

● Mate Abundance and Engagement Ring Size and Cost Expectations [study]

● The effects of juiciness in an action RPG [new study]

● Recent Progress in Automatic Sarcasm Detection

● The ‘Stoop Effect’ as Applied to Trombonists [new study]

● Science fallacies in the Jingle Jangle Jungle

● Monkeys and the Uncanny Valley [study]

● The Madman Theory – tested for the first time [new study]

● Cheek preferences on Instagram’s chimpanzee pics [new study]

● Face-taping for risk-takers [new study]

● Scary animals : a new classification [study]

● Using a ‘robot audience’ to induce acute stress [new study]

● The possibilities of math(s) genes [new study]

● Microdosing oneself study – still time to participate

● Testing receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit [new study]

● The “Santa Claus Effect” – positive or negative? (two viewpoints)

● Choices for Students : Food or Smartphones – Smartphones or Food? (new study)

● Justin Bieber’s opinion on the Big Bang – inconsequential, or not? (new study)

● Prestige-car ownership and sex attractiveness ratings

● Olympic Gold Medalists Die Earlier (than Silver Medalists) [new study]

● ‘Watching Eyes’ nudge technique not always 100% effective (new study)

● Smiling intensity among scientists is related to greater scientific achievements (new study)

● Evaluating an app which nags users to apologize to their phones

● Superfluous apologies – an easy-to-use tool for social influencers?

● Unsettling cigarettes (study)

● Beats Per Minute affects Bites Per Minute

● The analgesic effects of dancing in synch (study)

● The physiological underpinnings of aversion to images of clusters of holes (new study)

● Shopping – more like gathering than hunting? (study)

● Why women wear high heels (new study)

● Bugsplat (technologically facilitated remoteness increases killing behavior)

● Fancy Upgrade Car Wheels and their Evolutionary Significance (study)

● Cover image orientation in celebrity cookbooks (new study)

● Do Interruptions Affect Quality of Work? (study)

● Interrupting people : the pros and cons

● Is the face a window to the soul? (study)

● Preferred Women’s Waist-to-Hip Ratio (Variation over the Last 2,500 Years)

● Dirty Hands Make Dirty Leaders? (study)

● Shouting and Cursing while Driving (a new study)

● Can eating hot and spicy food lead to heated debates? (new study)

● People’s preferences for complex explanations (new study)

● Towards irrational robots

● A newly described illusion – the Pot/Lid Illusion

● Male Teachers & Marriage: the Lowdown

● How high and why

● Gesturing on the ‘phone

● Ball squeezing and creativity

● Towards a Boredom Recognition Engine

● Attractiveness of Leg Length (updated)

● Nose Art Psychology

● He’s Interested in Interesting-ness

● Sex and Religion – a re-examination

● The Chills – what gives them?

● Weekends good – weeks not so

● Lottery-ticket fate-tempting in Ithaca

● Hungry people prefer maturer mates?

● Laterality in Canine Cradling

● Leg length & attractiveness: bottom line

● Swearing – a psychological tool

● Further pinpointing Mona Lisa’s elusiveness

● The Mystery of the European Smile

● Ha Ha Yecchhhh Ha Ha

● Kissing Inclinations, Amsterdam

● Making up the tips

● Mr. Py’s progress

● Ripping notes

● The Hot Sauce Paradigm

● Flowers: But are they worth it?

● Etiquette and effort

● Teeth clenching and mathematics

● Eye colour and (dis)agreeableness

● A study of frowns, scowls, and grimaces during sex

● Psychological Truth(s)

● Grooming – is it worth it?

● Recognitions – part 4 – “Sloshing sounds courtesy of…”

● Male parking | Female parking — Factors Thereof

● Recognitions – part 3 – Tarr’s Fribbles, Yadgits, and such

● Dancing beards and armpits

● Recognitions – part 1 – Where is the nose?

● Exploring disgust-related tactile processes

● Fishy smells (psychological effects of)

● Stupid stories and subsequent stupidity

● Do Blondes Get More Funds?

● Dr. Martens’ Extermination Machine

● Professor Haans’ less rubbery hands

● Ennui Amongst Chinese Librarians

● Contemplating death — not so bad after all

● Scrutinising the FACS: the Outer Brow Raiser

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