Online Psychology Experiments

Facebook Use Affects Mood Differently To Stress And Relaxation

9 Feb 2012

Researchers measured people's physical and psychological responses while they used Facebook, performed a stressful task, or just relaxed, and found each of these activities appears to have a different effect on mood and arousal. Dr. Maurizio Mauri of the Institute of Human, Language and Environmental Sciences at IULM University in Milan, Italy, and colleagues, write about their findings in the ...

An Archival Treasure: Singing Mice

9 Feb 2012

The recent talk of ultrasonic tarsiers reminded me of a post I wrote a couple years ago. You see, tarsiers aren’t the only animal to communicate at a sound frequency beyond the level of human hearing: mice do as well. But, for some reason, some mice actually chatter in such a way that they can be heard by humans. While most mice are ultrasonic , as far as I can tell there’s no good explanation ...

Bilingual kids gain benefits in literacy skills

8 Feb 2012

Bilingual children score higher on some cognitive tests than children who speak only English, a new Toronto study has found.