People's perception of time is subjective and based not only on their emotional state but also on heartbeat and heart rate (HR), two new studies suggest. Researchers studied young adults with an ...

How do you use body language to influence someone? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer ...

With every sounding out of an idea like “you create your reality” or “you can will something into existence”, a critic of this position will be on hand to dismiss it as pseudo psychology. Another ...

Researchers found that when viewing photos of strangers, ratings of trustworthiness were correlated with facial similarity as calculated by an artificial neural network. However, facial similarity was ...

Speech perception is a multifaceted process in which the auditory system integrates acoustic signals with contextual influences to reliably extract linguistic content. This overview highlights the ...

A new study published in the Journal of Cognition provides evidence that what we know influences what we hear. Researchers found that when people listened to pairs of words and nonsense words spoken ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – People may form inaccurate impressions about us from our social media posts, finds new Cornell University research that is the first to examine perceptions of our personalities based on ...

When I tell people that I study our biases against unattractive people, they oftentimes reply, “But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it?” While it is true that there is variability in whom ...

How people evaluate odors does not depend entirely on the odorant itself—context influences perception. A research team from the Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors ...

A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows perceptions of electronic or e-cigarettes as being "more harmful" than cigarettes by adults in the United States more than ...