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Creative Company Conference 2011

Acting ‘out of character’ in the workplace

20 Feb 2015

Look around your workplace – and ask yourself which colleagues you’d describe as extravert and which as introvert. Perhaps your most talkative...

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Way Out sign on London Underground

Tired of London? Maybe it’s time to change postal districts

12 Jan 2015

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published today...

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Lego ordered into compartments

Males and females with autism show an extreme of the typical male mind

16 Jul 2014

The largest ever psychological study of sex differences in adults with autism has found that both males and females with autism on average show an...

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Heave, Ho!

Feeling powerless increases the weight of the world… literally

04 Feb 2014

New research shows that the more personally and socially powerless you feel the heavier objects appear to weigh.

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I Giovani e la Musica

The musical ages of modern man: how our taste in music changes over a lifetime

15 Oct 2013

New research charting broad shifts in changing personal music tastes during our lifetimes finds that - while it’s intrinsically linked to personality...

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Eurasian Jay mating pair engaged in food-sharing

Monogamous birds read partner's food desires

15 Feb 2013

Research suggests that Eurasian Jays might be able to determine aspects of the ‘internal life’ of their mate.

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Alice eyes. Researchers found that most children believe that people can only see each other when their eyes meet.

Windows to the self?

29 Oct 2012

Researchers have offered a convincing new theory which explains why children believe that they are invisible when they cover their eyes.

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Aesop's Fable - The Star

Aesop’s Fable unlocks how we think

26 Jul 2012

Cambridge scientists have used an age-old fable to help illustrate how we think differently to other animals.

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Professor with Police Officer

Cambridge Ideas - The Crime Experiment

12 Apr 2011

Eminent criminologist Prof Lawrence Sherman has just set up a long term experiment with the police, to scientifically study crime in Manchester and...

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Children Walking on Trail

Sibling rivalry and brotherly love

08 Apr 2011

Siblings, and even sibling rivalry, can have a positive effect on children’s early development and their ability to form social relationships later...

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Our brain

Extra testosterone reduces your empathy

10 Feb 2011

A new study from Utrecht and Cambridge Universities has for the first time found that an administration of testosterone under the tongue in...

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20ml

Addiction treatment – genes can play a part

04 Jan 2011

Imagine a one-off cure for drug addiction or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) instead of today’s life-long therapy regimes.

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