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psychology

eyewitness

Humans

How an unreliable eyewitness can make you a murderer

Close to three-quarters of wrongful convictions have been in part due to faulty human memory – and that's just the start of the trouble

Features

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Humans

Why we all need to fight the irrational fear of outsiders

Leader

interrogation

Humans

How an aggressive interrogation can make you a murderer

Features

Jennifer Richeson

Humans

Is news of the US's changing racial mix increasing racism?

Features

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Humans

Quick fixes on stereotypes won’t mean more female scientists

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People with scorecards

Health

Genetic test predicts your success in life, but not happiness

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Humans

How opinion polls are shaping the narrative of the EU referendum

Insight

Boris Johnson

Humans

How your Facebook feed will affect your Brexit vote

Insight

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Humans

Why gut instinct will decide the most irrational referendum yet

Insight

People sit an work on their laptops in a coffee shop

Humans

Do you get your best work done in coffee shops? Here's why

It isn't the clattering of plates and the whir of the coffee machine that makes you work better – it's the contagious concentration of the other people

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Technology

Controversial software claims to tell personality from your face

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Health

See-through brains reveal memory pathways for pleasure and fear

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Earth

Petrified rocks sent back by visitors who stole them from park

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Health

Cure: Can the power of our minds help us heal ourselves?

Culture

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