Lincoln School of Psychology News
Research led by Dr David Ellis, Lecturer in Psychology, reveals that Mondays really do make us blue, Fridays are the happiest day of the working week and ‘dull’ midweek days are easily muddled up – and it’s all due to how the artificial seven-day cycle we live by shapes the way we think. Full press…
Male Barbary macaques form social bonds similar to human friendships to protect against disease and death, an international study has revealed. Researchers studying wild Barbary macaque males living in their natural habitat in the Middle Atlas Mountains in Morocco discovered that keeping a few close male associates buffered against day-to-day stressors, decreasing the levels of…
Children can learn to better recognise other people’s emotions through games which emphasise the significance of the eyes and the mouth in conveying feelings, new research has shown. The study by cognitive neuroscientists in the School of Psychology suggests that simple training programmes could help children better understand which expressive facial features offer the most…
In August this year a new paper was published which showed that people who are aware they are asleep when they are dreaming have better than average problem-solving abilities. Experts from the University of Lincoln, UK, say that those who experience ‘lucid dreaming’ – a phenomena where someone who is asleep can recognise that they…
Dr Ruth Gaunt’s recent paper in Psychology of Women Quarterly has been picked up by a number of news outlets. The research shows that a mother’s self-identity impacts on the amount of time her partner spends on childcare — with strong professional identity in women creating a more equal childcare balance in a couple. A…