ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Psychological Association that explores the nature, mechanisms, and experience of consciousness. Its research spans cognitive psychology, neuroscience, perception, attention, self-awareness, unconscious processing, and altered states of consciousness, including sleep, dreaming, hypnosis, and meditation. The journal publishes experimental studies, theoretical analyses, and clinical research investigating how conscious experience arises, changes, and influences human thought, behavior, and mental health.
A University of Virginia archive of 1,678 reported cases found the gap between a death and a child’s birth ran shorter after sudden deaths, a small effect that survived five bias checks but cannot show what causes it.