psychology
eQuoo app launches crowdfunder to improve emotional intelligence
Mental health is one of the biggest issues of recent times, with Kendall Jenner, Emma Stone, Lady Gaga and even The Rock opening up about their mental health issues. Even the Royal family has got in o
Phone-addicted teens aren’t as happy as those who play sports and hang out IRL, new study suggests
To no parent’s surprise, too much smartphone use makes teens unhappy. So says a new study from San Diego State University, which pulled data from over one million 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders
Watch a thought race across the surface of the brain
Although neuroscientists have a general idea of what parts of the brain do what, catching them in the act is a difficult proposition. But UC Berkeley researchers have managed to do it, visualizing bas
Revising the results of last year’s study, Posit Science still effectively combats dementia
Revising the results of their headline-grabbing, decade-long study, researchers from top universities still believe that a brain training exercise from app developer Posit Science can actually reduce
Rulai launches ‘low-code’ chatbot development tool and raises $6.5 million
Customer experience chatbot developer Rulai has launched a new "low-code" chatbot development tool and raised $6.5 million to roll it out. Yi Zhang, the company's chief technologist, and her team are
Facebook denies it sells ad-targeting based on users’ emotions
Facebook has denied it offers tools to advertisers to target users when they are in vulnerable emotional states.
DeepMind’s differentiable neural computer helps you navigate the subway with its memory
In his best-selling 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman hypothesized that thinking could be broken down into two distinct processes — aptly named fas
People feel weird about touching robot butts, researchers find
How would you feel if a robot asked you to touch its butt? Maybe it sounds like a silly question (actually, there's no maybe about it), but as robots proliferate and anthropomorphize, it's actually so
Pseudo-Therapy Apps: The Fad Diet Of Mental Health
Psychotherapists help people discover the root cause of symptoms like anxiety and depression by bringing attention to issues and patterns that may lie outside of awareness. These things may be difficu
Wired For Extremes
Chris McNamara stood at the overhang of what would be his final wingsuit BASE jump (parachuting or wingsuit flying from a fixed structure: building, antenna, span and Earth). A 1,500-foot drop was a c
Product Psychology Explains How To Get Users Hooked On Products Designed Around Habit And Context
Today, a group of product-focused creators — "Hooked" author Nir Eyal, Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover, and Greylock Partners's Josh Elman, among others — are hoping to follow up on that newsletter's s
Good.co Wants To Put Employees In Good Company
Whether or not we like to admit it, our relationships with our colleagues are among the most significant in our lives. Dealing with their quirks (endearing or otherwise) can take up as much time as ac
The Billion Dollar Mind Trick
Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto and, despite her addiction, attends Stanford University. She has all the composure and polis
Cake v. Pie: Refusing To Consider An Option Makes You More Likely To Pick It Later
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Cake_vs._Pie-xxcsvh-d.jpeg">According to a study in the <a HREF="http://jcr.wisc.edu/">Journal of Consumer Research</a>, there is a commo
Age matters when it comes to web site navigation
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/web-phrenology.jpg" alt="Phrenology" title="Phrenology" />Shocking news, everyone! Age plays a factor in how we figure out web site navig
Study shows playing RTS games keeps old brains healthy
Good news for older gamers: that secret desire to rush your enemies’ base can be healthy! A study published in the medical journal Psychology & Aging shows that playing games like Rise of Na