Psychology behind optimal performance

Understanding the psychology behind performance - enhancement by doping

The Psychology behind People's Decision to Forward Disaster-Related Tweets

During a disaster, information spreads through social media. Although information that can save lives exists in social media, it can be difficult to find because it is buried under a sea of unverified information. One challenge in improving the use of social media for disaster management is to facilitate the spread of actionable information that improves people’s well-being and at the same time...

The Science and Psychology Behind Music and Emotion

Music has been used for thousands of years as a means of emotional expression. The goals of this paper are to (a) review current literature on how music induces emotion (b) explore the mechanisms of how this happens both physiologically and psychologically and (c) to look at the role of desired effect and musical preference to move towards a general conclusion of what drives listeners’ musical ...

Behind the performance of flapping flyers

A recent field of investigation concerns the efficiency of flapping flyers, the major interrogation being about how natural systems optimize energy saving together with performance enhancement. In particular, the passive role of wing flexibility to increase flight efficiency through the bending of the wings while flapping has attracted a lot of attention. It is commonly agreed that this efficie...

Bayesian Adaptive Optimal Design of Psychology Experiments

Experimentation is fundamental to the advancement of science, whether one is interested in studying the neuronal basis of a sensory process in cognitive neuroscience or assessing the efficacy of a new drug in clinical trials. Adaptive methodologies in experimentation, in which the information learned from each experiment is used to inform subsequent experiments, are particularly attractive beca...