Month: April 2024

Choosing Among Undesirable Options: Children Consider Desirability of Available Choices in Evaluation of Socially Mindful Actions

Abstract Previous studies show that adults and children evaluate the act of leaving a choice for others as prosocial, and have termed such actions as socially mindful actions. The current study investigates how the desirability of the available options (i.e., whether the available options are desirable or not) may influence adults’ and children’s evaluation of […]

Published on April 23, 2024

10 Best Foods for Your Brain

You may have heard that you should eat fish because it’s a “brain food.” That’s true. But it is just one of the best food options for boosting your brain power. Optimal brain health requires fatty acids found in abundance in fish, along with a constant supply of other… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. […]

Published on April 22, 2024

Eye-opener: Pupils enlarge when people focus on tasks

Normally, a person’s pupils naturally widen (or dilate) in low-light environments to allow more light into the eye. However, in a new study, researchers reported that a person’s pupils also dilate when they are concentrating on tasks. In particular, they found that the more a person’s eyes dilated during the task, the better they did […]

Published on April 22, 2024