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We've all seen polygraphs in movies: the famous "lie detector" comes out, the suspect is strapped in, and now we the viewers can sit back...

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A new study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, is the first-ever global meta-analysis on the possible link between post-tra...

You might have noticed how, after a night of poor sleep, any sort of stress you experience feels magnified. Now a new study from the Univ...

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According to the Innocence Project, false eyewitness reports play a role in roughly 70% of wrongful convictions. Witnesses to crimes are ...

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According to a recently published nationwide study by two professors at the University of South Florida, Black people are five times more...

There's an epidemic sweeping the world, and it's not the one you think. A new paper published in the Trends in Cognitive Sciences journal...

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