Month: March 2020

Is “sugar high” a thing?

On By Beth Morling, University of DelawareIn Chapter 01; Psychology Is a Way of Thinking, Chapter 02; Sources of Information, Chapter 11; More on Experiments

  Sugar doesn't make kids hyperactive; at least not according to a null effect study and a meta-analysis. Photo: Alamy Here's something "everybody says":  Kids will become hyperactive if they eat too much sugar. This folk belief is as much a part of North American cultural wisdom as learning styles and the catharsis hypothesis. But …

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A serendipitous study of long-term memory in birds

On By Beth Morling, University of DelawareIn Chapter 06; Surveys and Observations, Chapter 13; Quasi-Experiments and Small-N Designs, Questions Only

Here's a photo of a toutouwai (North Island Robin) sporting its bands for identification. Photo: Shutterstock We don't include many animal behavior studies in ERM blog, but here's a great one about animal memory. How long do you think wild animals can remember new skills they have learned? In this report in The Scientist, we …

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