Politici en feministes grijpen naar wetenschappelijke waarheden om hun politieke standpunten over emancipatie en ouderschap te onderbouwen. De één kiest voor traditioneel moederschap en verwijst naar de genen, de ander idealiseert de vrije keuze van mannen en vrouwen en vertrouwt op de maakbaarheid van …

Retrieval practice enhances long-term retention more than restudying; a phenomenon called the testing effect. The fuzzy trace explanation predicts that a testing effect will already emerge after a short interval when participants are solely provided with semantic cues in the final test. In the present …

Presentation of irrelevant additional information hampers learning. However, using a word-learning task, recent research demonstrated that an initial negative effect of mismatching pictures on learning no longer occurred once learners gained task experience. It is unclear, however, whether learners consciously …

In an anonymous 4-person economic game, participants contributed more money to a common project (i.e., cooperated) when required to decide quickly than when forced to delay their decision (Rand, Greene & Nowak, 2012), a pattern consistent with the social heuristics hypothesis proposed by Rand and colleagues. …