When you are giving directions, your word order really matters; it will determine how well your instructions are understood – if you start with a prominent landmark and end with the target object, the listener will probably find what you are describing faster than if you mention them the other way round. This is what a group of linguists and psychologists from the University of Aberdeen, Ohio State University, and the University of Edinburgh reported in the academic journal Frontiers in Psychology after carrying out a study. Research Fellow, Dr. Alasdair Clarke, from the University of Aberdeen’s >>>

“You play on Thursday, a big travel, and then you need to play on Sunday in the afternoon, it affects the psychology of the player” Mauricio Pochettino Pochettino said: “It’s never easy. You never know how it will affect you. But it’s true that for now, United must feel very disappointed because they had the possibility to go through to the next round.“It’s difficult to guess what will happen in the future. It’s true that it’s a different competition – and you have to change your approach.“Now you play Thursday and Sunday, not >>>

What is ISIS’s appeal for young people—and can propaganda videos produced by extremist organizations actually incite violence? Recent terrorist attacks around the world have prompted the public to re-examine these questions, which long have intrigued terrorism experts and policymakers. A new UChicago study will bring together political scientists, neuroscientists and psychologists to examine the neurological processes that create sympathy toward extremist groups, in an effort to determine how cultures of martyrdom mobilize support for violence, especially suicide attacks. >>>

 Metropolitan State University of Denver will celebrate its most diverse fall undergraduate class in the University’s history—including 433 students of color, led by 262 Latino students—at Fall Commencement on Friday, Dec. 11 at 9 a.m. at the Colorado Convention Center. Graduating this semester are 1,375 bachelor’s and 40 master’s students. Of the 40 master’s degrees to be awarded, 27 are in teaching and 13 are in accounting. Kayleen Tyler, the Outstanding Fall Graduate Award recipient, will give the student address during the ceremony. Tyler graduates with a Bachelor of Science >>>

A new study reports the successful and "instant" reduction of terror in arachnophobic participants.“This won’t hurt a bit. Just play with a giant tarantula for a few minutes and then we give you a shot. Voila, spider terror vanquished.“Could it really be that simple? I mean, it’s a bit sci-fi … and anytime you start giving people pharmacological injections to induce psychological change it does feel like a slippery slope into dystopian evil. But while tried-and-true behavioral therapies to treat phobias can take repeated sessions, this new approach could lessen stress and save both >>>

The psychology of spoken and visual communication was one of the key themes at this year’s ESSA G50+ conference at the Ricoh Arena. Industry professionals gathered for a day of networking, panel discussions and various speaker sessions on 3 December. Business psychology lecturer Dr Gorkan Ahmetoglu from University College London delivered the keynote address and the conference was chaired by Han Leehouts, managing director of Sales Pepper. Andrew Harrison, ESSA director, said: “This year we succeeded in boosting delegate engagement beyond anything we've experienced before. “Above >>>

The greater proportion of women than men on college campuses may contribute to a hook-up culture where women are more willing to engage in casual sex and are more aggressive toward other desirable women who are perceived as rivals, according to new research published by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In the first experimental study to examine this issue, researchers found an imbalanced gender ratio affects views about casual sex for both men and women in ways that people may not consciously realize. "If your gender is in the majority, then you have to compete with a lot >>>

I have just joined the Labour Party, and Momentum, because Tom Watson said that no anti-war protester, no Trotskyist, no entryist should be there. I joined, despite my hatred of what the Labour Party has done to Scotland, despite the wounds of the war in Iraq and the bombing of Syria, because I will not let any Blairite tell me who a member of the Labour Party should be, and what she should believe. I join in Plymouth, which, with Dundee, was one of the two cities where the trade union movement founded the Labour Party. They were seen then as the dregs of society, as the sympathisers with >>>

“He was the bad boy of Villareal,” announced Laetitia Deweer as she introduced 19-year-old Abraham Meza Berrocal to the hundreds of people sitting in the audience at Pangas Restaurant last week. Meza and nine other young people were onstage to tell their stories of coming to Culture, Education and Psychology for Infants and Adolescents (CEPIA), the organization that Deweer cofounded with her friend and fellow Belgian Lotje Deridder to improve the quality of life of impoverished Guanacaste children and teenagers and their families through cultural development, educational opportunities, >>>

A few of weeks ago I got a email from a friend who was attending an education technology conference. In the note he referenced PyGaze, an open source project I might be interested in. I have a deep interest in educational psychology, and so I was fascinated by what I read about PyGaze—an open source toolbox for eye tracking in Python. The website told me that it runs on Linux, but I wanted to learn more about eye tracking and the role it plays in psychological research. I also wanted to know more about the project and how it is contributing to research and its implications for open source. In >>>