Happy new year to all of you! I hope you had a good time last night. As we are approaching the time where people have made new years’ resolutions, I thought it might be nice to summarize a review by Dunn, Gilbert and Wilson (2011) about how to spend your money in order to be … Read more
Social media has become a big part of our lives. Not a day goes by for most of us where we haven’t checked Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other medium. By far the largest group that uses social media is adolescents. While most research focusses on the negative effects of social media, Yang, Holden and … Read more
Imagine this: you are walking down the street when all of a sudden you see someone walking with a big dog by their side. You’re terribly afraid of dogs, so instead of walking past the dog, you cross the street. Why? Because, according to a recent study by Mkrtchian, Aylward, Dayan, Roiser & Robinson (2017), … Read more