They are marketed as an entertaining workout for the grey matter. But brain training games could actually help reverse memory loss in head injury victims and dementia sufferers, according to…

If anything short of a new computer game from Santa this Christmas will be a huge disappointment to your child, it may be time to re-think the place of technological…

On BBC Breakfast news Jenni Trent Hughes Dr Simon Moore Psychologist London Metropolitan University

It is the oldest of questions. “What is love! It is a pretty thing, as sweet unto a shepherd as a king,” wrote Robert Greene back in the 16th century….

Cheek When The moment she arrives. How Go French and kiss her gently on each cheek says Dr Simon Moore, co-author of Complete Psychology. Why A recent University of California…

Professor Dawkins’ recent programme (Enemies of Reason, Channel 4, August 2007), has made it a dangerous time for academics to be associated with anything considered to be ‘pseudo-science’, but could…

New research suggests that losing the British stiff upper lip and having a weep is good for us.

If you want someone to warm to you give them a steaming hot drink, say US researchers. People are more likely to judge strangers as welcoming and trustworthy when they…

The study tested if evaluation of Aesthetic quality is influenced by tactile information and whether the evaluation process is affected more by one modality (vision) than another (touch). Tactile sensing…

As the January sales hit stores across the UK, it’s time to uncover the science behind shopping sprees. What is the exhilarating rush we experience when we bag a bargain? Do we…

Fifty subjects participated in a series of visual search tasks where the aim was to explore the influence of colour on visual search times for targets situated in a series…

Net Promoter Score – a delicate case of the Emperor’s New Clothes? My guess is that you “like to be liked”…. right?  Is it enough to know you are liked…