Research suggests that a critical cognitive mechanism involved in false memory is semantic memory. Humans are highly susceptible to false memory error which poses a problem for the reliability of eyewitness testimony. To combat this problem researcher . . .

Previous research has found a consistent association between stressful life events and depressive symptoms. However, it is not well understood why some individuals are more vulnerable to depressive symptoms following a stressful life event than others . . .

Yoga has become an increasingly popular form of exercise in the West with promising findings of improved physiological and psychological well-being. However, researchers have expressed concern in its efficacy in a clinical setting. This study aimed to . . .

Previous research has documented that human females report a number of preference changes for sexual partners and sexual activity during the high- relative to low-fertility days of the ovulatory cycle. Less studied, however, are the effects of female . . .

The present study addressed the roles that oxytocin and empathy play in moral judgment on actions involving the killing of one person to save the lives of a larger number of people. Additionally, the study sought to determine whether trait empathy and . . .

Throughout vertebrate evolution, asymmetries in the ability to inflict costs and defend resources (i.e., formidability) likely impacted individual fitness and collecting information about formidability (e.g., size, strength, fighting ability) would ha . . .

For decades, studies have shown that people are better able to distinguish ownrace faces compared to other-race faces, a phenomenon known as the Other-Race Effect (ORE). Research suggests that perceptual experience and social context factors may play . . .

There are unsettled debates in the literature regarding the strength of top-down and bottom-up processing in visual attention. Control of top-down visual attention was assessed in both younger and older adults using a visual search task. In the task, . . .

The ethics of experimentation with human subjects is a topic of continuing controversy. Justification for possibly unethical procedure such as deception, is found by experimenters in subjects' reports that the experiment was a worthwhile experience an . . .

Warnings on consumer products are typically the only devices used to elicit safe product use. Manufacturers have a legal duty to warn about predictable product dangers. and currently the legal system heavily emphasizes the importance of such written p . . .