A psychology professor’s research indicates that public school teachers under-challenge minority students by providing them more positive feedback than they give to white students, for work of equal merit. The study involved 113 white middle school and high school teachers in two public school districts in the N.Y./N.J./Conn. tri-state area, one middle class and white, and the other more working class and racially mixed.

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Are educators showing a ‘positive bias’ to minority students?

Images of pointing fingers are much better at diverting people’s attention than directional arrows, new psychology research suggests. Researchers have shown that biological cues like an outstretched index finger or a pair of eyes looking to one side affect people’s attention even when they are irrelevant to the task at hand. Abstract directional symbols like pointed arrows or the written words “left” and “right” do not have the same effect.

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Pointing a finger work much better than using pointed arrows

A new study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers. The study finds that thinking analytically increases disbelief among believers and skeptics alike, shedding important new light on the psychology of religious belief.

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Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, study shows

Over-30s can benefit from being nagged, nudged and cajoled by family and friends into being more active, according to new sport psychology research.

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Why nagging can be good for your health

Unlike women, men don’t curb certain risk-taking behaviors when a baby is present, a new psychology study suggests.

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Babies flick ‘anti-risk switch’ in women but not men