Spotting Liars And Fixing Things: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links

Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web You might have heard of the “Mozart effect”, the idea that playing babies classical music can boost their intelligence. But is there any truth to that claim? In a word, no — but check out this nice video from Claudia Hammond at BBC Reel to learn more about where the myth came from. Studies have found that both male and female observers — including healthcare professionals — underestimate the amount of pain that women are experiencing. We may overestimate men’s pain as well, and there’s some evidence that these gender biases even extend to beliefs about children’s pain. But more work is needed to understand perceptions of pain beyond the standard pool of White, western participants, writes Amanda C de C Williams at The Conversation. It’s a common belief that you can spot a liar by the way they act. But research suggests this isn’t really the case: we are no good at deciding whether someone is lying based on their nonverbal behaviour. And while psychologists have found that there are other, better ways of probing the truth of a suspect’s story — such as specific interview techniques — many police forces and border security officials still rely on the old, ineffective methods, writes Jessica Seigel at BBC Future. The Psychological Science Accelerator could offer a new model for conducting psychology research, potentially helping the field to get pas...
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