Features News Pop Culture Science This is why we love big butts by Happy Humans are the most bootylicious animals. But why are we so obsessed with big butts? And more importantly, who has the biggest butt? According to the Institute of Human Anatomy…
News Politics No way! Study suggests Donald Trump told lies on purpose by Lochie Schuster Psychologists have studied tweets posted by Donald Trump to find out if he was purposely spreading misinformation on Twitter. A group of linguistics experts have rounded up all of Donald…
News Science Study finds most people can’t recognise the letter G by Lochie Schuster You read it every single day, but do you know what the letter “G” actually looks like? Psychologists have recently discovered that most people don’t. You can probably easily recognise…
News Weird How many words can your dog understand? by Lochie Schuster A new study by psychologists at Dalhousie University has found that the average dog can understand 89 different words. Chances are your precious pooch is just ignoring you when it…
News Science Revealed: science says Tom Waits fans are ‘open’, The Smiths fans are ‘neurotic’ by Stanley Widdison What is more interesting than the data theft however, is the insanely alarming fact (or should I say, reaffirming knowledge) that people who like The Smiths have certain psychological predispositions….
News Science This just in: Some people can’t visualise images in their mind by Hayley Noble Imagine going through life with the inability to create visual images. Turns out that if you have aphantasia, you can’t. It turns out that there are people in the world…
News Science Diagnosed psychopaths and sociopaths destigmatise their conditions in a new Reddit AMA by Phil Hanlon For those who have wondered if they or someone they know has psychopathic tendencies, a few self-described sociopaths and psychopaths have given Reddit the down-low on what it’s like in…
News Study shows that horror movie fans are better at dealing with COVID-19 by Samara Louise If you have been grinding away watching hours of videos of gruesome zombies, infectious diseases taking over, and the end of the world as we know it, now is the…
News Talking to your characters won’t make you a psychopath, study says by Mia Montesin A study shows writers hear their characters talk back. 61% say they listen to them. Research from Durham University and the Edinburgh International Book Festival reveals writers’ experiences with their…
News Baby Boomers are more hypersensitive than millennials, new study finds by Sam Bowden Sick of being labelled a “self-absorbed millennial” by your elders? A new study out of the scientific journal of Psychology and Ageing suggests that baby boomers were more narcissistic and…
