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Even A Fish Can Learn (Aquarium Experiment of Classical Conditioning)
Can fish learn anything? Yes. I once had fish in an aquarium who learned to associate food with the sound of a feeder through classical conditioning. I noticed how my fish responded to the sound of a …
Who Win The Promiscuity Battle — Men or Women?
This topic has received much attention over the years, and we all have our assumptions about it, but what does psychological research tell us about gender differences in promiscuity?
The Brain’s Reward System: Is Dopamine the Only ‘Feel Good’ Chemical?
Much evidence has associated dopamine with the brain’s reward system. For this reason, dopamine has been called the “feel good” or pleasure chemical. Stimulation of the neurotransmitter, dopamine, makes us feel good.
Your Self-Control Decreases Throughout the Day, Study Shows
New experimental research by Kouchaki & Smith (2014), published in Psychological Science in January, shows that people are more likely to act ethically and to overcome temptation in the morning than later in the day. The authors refer to …
Consider This Before You Clean Up Your Room (Messy Rooms Encourage Creativity)
Sometimes, we prefer convention such as order, rules, and tradition. Other times, we prefer to break free from convention. Both order and disorder are present in nature and culture.
Multitasking Reduces Taste Perception and Increases Food Consumption
Van der Wal & van Dillen (2013) emphasize that people in modern Western societies devote less and less attention to their meals. This fact is supported by reports that have shown that we eat about half of our …
Study: Your Self-Concept Influences Your Product Choices
Taste evaluation is not solely based on the objectivity of food, such as the biological and innate preferences for special flavors etc. Individual and cultural differences in food preferences illuminate the role of subjectivity in taste evaluation.