Watching Team GB competing in the taekwondo final, I mentioned to a friend that competitors wearing red guards won more bouts than those in blue guards. Inevitably, this started a discussion about what it might be that caused the difference. Was it because higher ranked competitors were given the red guards? Did it affect all […]
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Read moreIt seems our expectation about what we eat directly affects how hungry or satisfied we feel afterwards. In one study , when participants ate soup, not knowing that there was a hidden pump connected to their soup bowl which could surreptitiously alter the amount of soup available once eating started, their reported satiety related to how […]
Read moreMay 18, 2010 The death of Richard Gregory was announced on Monday of this week . He was an extremely well-known figure in Psychology, most notably for his work on visual illusions and his classic book Eye and Brain. His website has examples of some of his illusions. He also researched artificial intelligence, was an inventor […]
Read moreIn November 2004 52 year old Diana Duyser from Florida USA, sold on e-bay a grilled cheese sandwich she had made ten years previously for $28,000 and in the process had 1.7 million hits to this particular e-bay item. Why such interest in a frankly inedible piece of food? Well quite simply because there in […]
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