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- Infants begin to learn about race in the first year
- Pointing a finger work much better than using pointed arrows
- Dopamine impacts your willingness to work
| Infants begin to learn about race in the first year Posted: 02 May 2012 10:29 AM PDT A new study confirms that though born with equal abilities to tell other-race people apart, by age 9 months infants are better at recognizing faces and emotional expressions of same-race people and the ability to distinguish other-race faces and match emotional sounds with expressions declines.  |
| Pointing a finger work much better than using pointed arrows Posted: 02 May 2012 06:18 AM PDT Images of pointing fingers are much better at diverting people's attention than directional arrows, new psychology research suggests. Researchers have shown that biological cues like an outstretched index finger or a pair of eyes looking to one side affect people's attention even when they are irrelevant to the task at hand. Abstract directional symbols like pointed arrows or the written words "left" and "right" do not have the same effect.  |
| Dopamine impacts your willingness to work Posted: 01 May 2012 03:27 PM PDT Slacker or go-getter? Everyone knows that people vary substantially in how hard they are willing to work, but the origin of these individual differences in the brain remains a mystery. Now the veil has been pushed back by a new brain imaging study that has found an individual's willingness to work hard to earn money is strongly influenced by the chemistry in three specific areas of the brain.  |
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