Editor’s Selections: Things that are—or aren’t—exactly what they seem
November 10th, 2009 Editor's Selections 4 CommentsDave Munger selects several notable posts each week from psychology and neuroscience. He blogs at Cognitive Daily and has a weekly column on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM.
- Can you tell how strong someone is just by looking at their face? Michael Meadon looks at research suggesting that you can.
- What does your genome say about how likely you are to go into debt? Quite a lot, says the Neurocritic.
- Think you’ve finally got control over your weight? Now’s about the time you’ll probably start putting those pounds back on.
- How do you make a non-threatening area seem unsafe? Just put a closed-circuit surveillance camera there.