Psychologon / Rešerše Why your desk job is so damn exhausting "This is the greatest mystery of my adult life: How can I spend all day typing at a computer and go home feeling exhausted? How could merely activating the small muscles of my fingers leave me craving the couch at the end of the day?"

www.vox.com / 12. 10. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše Study: Yoga practice reduces the psychological distress and paranoid thoughts of prison inmates "Practicing yoga can help reduce paranoid thoughts, memory problems, trouble concentrating, and obsessive thoughts in prison inmates, according to new research published in Frontiers in Psychiatry."

PsyPost / 9. 10. 2018

Psychologon / Zaujalo nás Cesta do hlubin mozku (The Brain; David Eagleman) Inspirativní šestidílná série popularizačních filmů The Brain amerického neurovědce ze Standfordovy university, Davida Eaglemana byla poprvé odvysílána v roce 2015 a o rok později oceněna cenou Emmy.

www.osel.cz / 10. 6. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše What smartphone photography is doing to our memories "In the past few years, not only have we begun taking more and more pictures with digital cameras but we’re also sharing them, nearly instantly, on social media. This may alter our memories too — in a subtle but profound way. Barasch and her colleagues have found evidence that taking pictures to share on social media changes our perspective within our memories. That is: When we’re taking photos to share on social media, we’re more likely to remember the moment from a third-person perspective."

www.vox.com / 31. 3. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše Why some people can hear this silent gif  "Remember the white and gold dress that some internet users were certain was actually blue and black? Well, this time the dilemma being discussed online is whether you can hear anything in a silent animation of skipping pylons. Some people claim they can hear a thudding sound when the pylon hits the ground and the picture vibrates."

BBC / 25. 2. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše Schizophrenia patients calmed by video game "People with schizophrenia can be trained by playing a video game to control the part of the brain linked to verbal hallucinations, researchers say. Patients in a small study were able to land a rocket in the game when it was connected to the brain region sensitive to speech and human voices. In time, the patients learnt to use the technique in their daily lives to reduce the power of hallucinations."

BBC / 16. 2. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše Why we laugh "Did you know that you're 30 times more likely to laugh if you're with somebody else than if you're alone? Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott shares this and other surprising facts about laughter in this fast-paced, action-packed and, yes, hilarious dash through the science of cracking up."

www.ted.com / 6. 2. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše The gift and power of emotional courage  "Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth and discusses the powerful strategies of emotional agility. A talk to share."

www.ted.com / 2. 2. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše Why humans are cruel "Why are human beings so cruel to each other? And how do we justify acts of sheer inhumanity? Paul Bloom, a psychology professor at Yale, thinks this explanation of human cruelty is, at best, incomplete."

www.vox.com / 22. 1. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše The science behind why fake news is so hard to wipe out "We don’t need to rack our brains every time we hear “the Earth is round” to decide if it’s true or not. Most of the things we hear repeated over and over again are, indeed, true. But falsehoods can hijack this mental tic as well."

www.vox.com / 3. 1. 2018

Psychologon / Rešerše The Benefits Of Learning a New Language and Being Bilingual "It's easier and simpler to learn something new when you're young, but the idea that this is based solely on the physical aspects of your age is a complete fallacy."

Teacher.org / 27. 11. 2017

Psychologon / Rešerše Tyler Dewitt: Hey science teachers - make it fun! Have you ever been bored at school? Have you ever wondered why some people are so interested in science when books about science are so formal and boring? High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt talks about how he makes his students care about science. And the video is exciting!

www.ted.com / 4. 9. 2017