Sea otters are the largest members of the weasel family.When people started hunting sea otters for their fur, their population fell from roughly 225,000 to about 1,500, until the International Fur Sea ...
When subjects are asked to watch a movie and not display emotions (say, a comedy without laughing, or a tearjerker without crying), they evidently use up glucose in particular areas of their brain in ...
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that motivates us to engage in rewarding activities such as eating and sex. Animals without dopamine stop eating and starve to death.Certain drugs are able to activate d ...
Numerous studies have shown that people are over-confident in their own abilities. Most people, for example, think that they are better drivers than average.This doesn't make any sense because surely ...
In an office area, there is a coffee machine and a jar in which peopleare asked to put voluntary contributions for the coffee they consume.There is a picture above the jar.Each week the picture is cha ...
People were shown a bunch of writing purporting to make various claims about facts about the world, then were asked later which facts they believed.It turns out when the writing was written in better ...
Evidently, when you are thinking about a problem, you use up glucose.This can be seen by monitoring blood glucose as people work on math problems and the like.Roy Baumeister conducted an experiment wh ...
An experiment was run by Walter Mischel with four-year-olds back in the 1960s. Each child was brought into a room in which there was an Oreo cookie. The child was told that s/he could have the Oreo ri ...
Check in every weekend for a couple of interesting facts that you may or may not already know. If not, hopefully you learned something. If so, what are your thoughts on the subject?Got your own tidbit ...