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The gags were inevitable. Within minutes of Transformers director Michael Bay\’s panicked exit from a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas – apparently overcome with stagefright after the autocue broke down – Twitter was sniggering that at last he had done what thousands of others had wanted to do before him: he\’d […]
December 18, 2013
November 18, 2013
November 18, 2013
If you’ve ever attempted to move to a foreign country and learn to speak the local language, you’re aware that successfully doing so is an enormous challenge. But in our age of widely distributed Wi-Fi hotspots, free Skype video calls from one hemisphere to another and favorite TV shows available anywhere in the world over the web, speaking […]
November 6, 2013
SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can […]
September 19, 2013
This information comes from reading over 25 psychology and law enforcement training manual’s. Enjoy! Specifics About the Eyes via Gestures and Body Language: Eyes A person’s eyes dilate strongly when they are very stimulated and in a problem solving mode. At maximum dilation, the person is ready to make a decision which is more likely to […]
September 4, 2013
It has been suggested before by experts that a great way to make one’s brain healthier is by learning a new language. Second language boosts brain power. A previous study conducted by researchers at Lund University showed that learning a new language actually makes parts of the brain grow. According to a new joint study, learning a […]
August 23, 2013
Babies copy other people’s behaviour because they want to be like them. Researchers from the MPI for Psycholinguistics and Cardiff University have demonstrated that faithful imitation starts at 15 months, earlier than was previously thought, and is socially motivated. Their study was published online in Developmental Science. August 13, 2013 Children begin to faithfully imitate […]
July 6, 2013
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted? UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first time the brain regions associated with the successful spread of ideas, often called “buzz.” The research has a broad range of implications, the […]
June 21, 2013
I wrote this sentence and you are now reading it. The I in the preceeding sentence is my sense of my self. I assume most sentient animals have some sense of themselves, some kind of awareness or consciousness. But the I as a central narrator of my experience embedded in a mind-independent reality depends on the ability […]
Hanes Psychology 
January 8, 2014
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