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Moral Time: Does Our Internal Clock Influence Moral Judgments?
(www.3Quarksdaily.com. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/10/moral-time-does-our-internal-clock-influence-moral-judgments.html, 2014-10-13)
Does morality depend on the time of the day? The study The Morning Morality Effect: The Influence of Time of Day on Unethical Behavior (1) published in October of 2013 by Maryam Kouchaki and Isaac Smith suggested that ...
Typical Dreams: A Comparison of Dreams Across Cultures
(www.3Quarksdaily.com, 2015-01-05)
Have you ever wondered how the content of your dreams differs from that of your friends? How about the dreams of people raised in different countries and cultures? It is not always easy to compare dreams of distinct ...
The Psychology of Procrastination: How We Create Categories of the Future
(www.3Quarksdaily.com, 2014-08-18)
Paying bills, filling out forms, completing class assignments, or submitting grant proposals – we all have the tendency to procrastinate. We may engage in trivial activities such as watching TV shows, playing video games, ...
Does Thinking About God Increase Our Willingness to Make Risky Decisions?
(www.3Quarksdaily.com, 2015-03-02)
Daniella Kupor and her colleagues at Stanford University have recently published the paper Anticipating Divine Protection? Reminders of God Can Increase Nonmoral Risk Taking (1), which takes a new look at the link between ...
Three Seconds: Poems, Cubes, and the Brain
(www.3Quarksdaily.com, 2013-07-22)
Temporal order can be assessed in a rather straightforward experimental manner. Research subjects can be provided sequential auditory clicks, one to each ear. If the clicks are one second apart, nearly all participants can ...
Shame on You, Shame on Me: Shame as an Evolutionary Adaptation
(www.3Quarksdaily.com, 2016-02-29)
Can shame be good for you? We often think of shame as a shackling emotion that thwarts our individuality and creativity. A sense of shame could prevent us from choosing a partner we truly love, speaking out against societal ...
Nostalgia is a Muse
(www.3Quarksdaily.com, 2016-03-28)
The University of Southampton researchers Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut have spent the past decade studying the benefits of nostalgia. Not only do they disavow its disease status, they have conducted numerous ...
Does Literary Fiction Challenge Racial Stereotypes?
(www.3Quarksdaily.com, 2014-04-28)
Reading literary fiction can be highly pleasurable, but does it also make you a better person? Conventional wisdom and intuition lead us to believe that reading can indeed improve us. However, as the philosopher Emrys ...