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How You Can Instantly Tell Which Way a Crowd is Looking

Where is this crowd looking?

It's an ability we all use without giving it a second thought.

We can see a crowd of people staring off in another direction and be able to turn around and look almost exactly where they are looking.

Dr. Timothy Sweeny, who studies visual perception, explains it like this...

Dr Jeremy Dean is a psychologist and author of PsyBlog. His latest book is
"Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes That Stick"

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The Surprising Impact of Weight Loss on the Emotions

How losing weight affects happiness (it's not what you think!).

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10 Ways to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

The big 5 lifestyle factors and more ways of preventing dementia.

By 2050 there could be as many as 16 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.

Some of the most frequent early symptoms of Alzheimer's are short-term memory loss, getting lost and problems finding words.

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Why Some People Only Need Five Hours’ Sleep a Night

Study of twins explains how some people can function normally on 5 hours sleep.

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Here’s The Real Secret to Detecting Lies (And It’s Not Body Language)

Until now studies have found that people do no better than chance at detecting lies.

Despite all the advice about lie detection going around, study after study has found that it is very difficult to spot when someone is lying.

Previous tests involving watching videos of suspects typically find that both experts and non-experts come in at around 50/50: in other words you might as well flip a coin.

Now, though, a new study...

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Revealed: The Type of Music That Makes You Feel Most Powerful

If you want to get pumped up before a big event, what type of music should you choose?

Music has already been shown to have all kinds of effects on the mind, like making you happier, reducing pain and bringing people together.

Now a new study finds that music of the right kind can transform the listener's sense of power....

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When You Sleep and Wake Up is Controlled by a Single Gene

This research could lead to a cure for jet-lag and other sleep problems.

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The Daytime Benefits of Lucid Dreaming

Study finds cognitive benefits for those who realise they are in a dream while dreaming.

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Brain Wiring Differences in Sensory Processing Disorders and Autism

Support for controversial disorder thought to affect 1 in 6 elementary school children.

Children with sensory processing disorders have different structural brain connections in the sensory regions compared with autism, lending weight to a controversial diagnosis, a new study finds.

The study, which is published in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first to compare the brain structures of those with autism with those who have sensory processing disorders (SPD) (Chang et al., 2014).

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How to Learn Anything Better By Tweaking Your Mindset

New study finds that changing your mindset during learning directly impacts what you recall.

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