Surprise! College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do. Surprise! College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do Previous research has shown that college students tend to put too much alcohol into what is considered a "drink," likely leading to inaccuracies in self-reported consumption, which is a mainstay of surveys on college drinking. A study in the April issue of Alcoholism: [...] [World of Psychology]
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Even babies can have optical illusions. [ article ] 'What we are investigating here is at what point babies can begin to decipher visual data about perspective,' says Laura Hemker, who is doing her PhD at the University of Bonn's Institute of Psychology. The problem is that even the brightest baby cannot yet say, at the age of five months, what it can see. For this reason the researchers on Dr. Michael Kavsek's team had to think up a trick enabling them to detect the perceptive faculties of their little guinea pigs. ... [CogNews]
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