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Research
Findings from published psychological and neuroscientific work, summarised for this collection rather than reproduced, with the study named on each entry so a reader can go to the source. What is collected here is what has been measured about attention, habit, sleep, emotion and change — including, where it applies, how large the measured effect is and how well it has held up when other groups have tried to repeat it.
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On reappraisal and suppressionThere are two obvious things to do with a feeling you do not want. You can hold your face still and carry on — suppression. Or you can go back to what you made of the situation and…ResearchA finding from published research
On practice changing the brainLondon taxi drivers spend three or four years learning the city's layout well enough to pass an examination called the Knowledge. When researchers scanned them, the rear part of th…ResearchA finding from published research
On sleep and the next morningAfter one night without sleep, the amygdala — which registers threat — responds about sixty per cent more strongly to unpleasant images. At the same time the connection between it…