The philosophy of emotion and perception investigates how our emotional responses and perceptual experiences inform and shape our understanding of the world. This field interrogates the distinct ...

In a famous study by Larsen, Kasimatis, and Frey (1992), the researchers instructed participants with golf tees affixed to the edges of their eyebrows to make them touch. In doing so, the participants ...

In previous posts on The Forensic View, we have seen that eyewitness memories can be reconfigured in the direction of witness personal beliefs (Bartlett, 1932; Loftus, 1979; Sharps, 2022). This can ...

The diagram plots normalised heart rate (X-axis) against time estimation error (Y-axis): lower points indicate that the video was perceived as shorter. Each dot ...

The researchers identified the amygdala, the brain's emotional center, as key to this process. The amygdala connects to a cortical top-down circuit from motor to sensory cortices which controls ...

In the UK version of the TV show "The Traitors," contestants were given five minutes to find as much gold as they could, put it into cages and hoist them before the time ran out. There was a catch ...