Editor’s Selections: Fake videos lead to real confessions
August 25th, 2009 Editor's Selections No Comments
Dave Munger selects several notable posts each week from psychology and neuroscience. He blogs at Cognitive Daily and has a weekly column on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM.
- Confronted with fake video evidence, nearly everyone confesses. In a simulated “crime,” researchers were able to induce false confessions — but fewer people were willing to rat out others.
- Second language changes the way bilinguals read in their native tongue. Learning a new language makes you read differently in the old one, suggesting you don’t just “switch on” a different language.
- Children with autism do understand emotions. While autism does seem to impair recognition non-verbal emotional expressions, this study finds no difference between recognition of verbal emotional expression in high-function children with autism.
- Evidence for acupuncture effectiveness? David Gorski critiques a study purporting to find a link between acupuncture and brain response to pain medication.
