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60-Second Mind

Scientific American

  • 3 minutes 13 seconds
    Up Your Online Dating Game with Evidence-Based Strategies
    Choosing a user name starting with a letter appearing earlier in the alphabet is just one scientifically vetted way to increase the odds of turning an online encounter into a first date. Christopher Intagliata reports
    14 February 2015, 3:10 pm
  • 2 minutes 49 seconds
    Junk Diet Rewires Rat Brains
    High-calorie and exceedingly pleasurable foods appear to change rat brain rewards circuitry, causing the rodents to continue to seek such fare. Erika Beras reports
    7 February 2015, 3:00 pm
  • 2 minutes 43 seconds
    High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing
    Parkinson’s patients derived more benefits from a salt solution they were told was an expensive drug than from the same solution when it was described as being cheap medication. Karen Hopkin reports
    31 January 2015, 2:00 pm
  • 2 minutes 42 seconds
    Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits
    Of studies presented at conferences, those that found a cognitive benefit to bilingualism were almost twice as likely to get published in journals as were studies finding no benefit. Karen Hopkin reports

     
    30 December 2014, 8:06 pm
  • 2 minutes 38 seconds
    Inclusion Illusion Lessens Racial Bias
    Implicit bias against another race lessened after volunteers experienced themselves via virtual reality as a member of that race. Karen Hopkin reports

     
    20 December 2014, 9:00 am
  • 2 minutes 46 seconds
    Blood Test Forecasts Concussion Severity
    Levels of a protein fragment in the blood paralleled how long head injuries benched hockey players. Ingrid Wickelgren reports
    15 December 2014, 7:00 pm
  • 3 minutes 5 seconds
    Bouncy Gait Improves Mood
    If you're in an up mood, you may walk more energetically. But a study finds that purposefully walking more energetically may improve your mood. Christie Nicholson reports

     
    8 December 2014, 6:34 pm
  • 2 minutes 42 seconds
    Synchronized Walking Reduces Opponent's Perceived Size
    Subjects who kept pace with a walking colleague estimated a potential enemy to be smaller and lighter than did other walkers who were not marching. Karen Hopkin reports

     
    9 November 2014, 10:46 am
  • 2 minutes 30 seconds
    Big Parental Control May Stunt Kid Assertiveness
    Young adults who’d had highly controlling parents were less able to stress their own viewpoints to a friend or partner in confident and productive ways. Daisy Yuhas reports

     
    3 November 2014, 9:32 am
  • 2 minutes 41 seconds
    Lots or Little Sleep Linked to Sick Days
    Absence from work due to illness increased dramatically for those who slept less than six hours or more than nine hours per night. Christie Nicholson reports

     
    29 September 2014, 1:00 pm
  • 2 minutes 48 seconds
    Can’t Take My Eyes off You—Your Face, That Is

    The direction of your gaze when looking at someone offers an unconscious, automatic giveaway of whether your initial reaction is romance or sex. Christie Nicholson reports

    6 September 2014, 12:00 pm
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