Recent research concludes that although people predict they will react negatively to racial slurs, their behavior proves otherwise. Christie Nicholson reports

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Folge vom 12.01.2009The Persistence of Racism
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Folge vom 05.01.2009A Blind Man SeesA recent paper in Current Biology provides one of the few human cases of blindsight, the ability for perceptively blind people to respond to visual stimuli, even though they have no awareness of seeing anything. Christie Nicholson reports.
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Folge vom 30.12.2008Great Expectations for 2009Multiple experiments by Duke University professor Dan Ariely reveal how our expectations hugely influence our decisions, and ultimately, our experiences. Christie Nicholson reports
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Folge vom 22.12.2008Beware the Holiday Sugar HighRecent research concludes that parents significantly overestimate how sugar affects their children's hyperactive behavior. Susannah F. Locke reports.