HOW TO GET YOUR WORK ON THE REGISTER ... The Register is a one-of-its-kind blog for psychology students to publish their own articles and...

This article was written by ... Olivia Rowett Can changing your handwriting improve your grades? We all know the impact of pre-perceptions and labels on grading in education, but what if our handwriting can cause these pre-perceptions in the first place? Would that mean that we can improve our grades by improving our handwriting? Many psychologists say yes. For example, Klein and Taub (2005) gave fifty-three teachers a number of writing compositions that had been awarded 80%

This article was written by ... Taylor McConnolly Chewing gum and memory performance One of the weirdest and most left-field influences on our memory performance is the use of chewing gum. It's often said that we can remember information a lot more efficiently when chewing. Is this a real psychological phenomenon, or is it an urban myth? On the one hand, this legend likely arose from clinical research. A famous example could perhaps be Wilkinson et al. (2002), which found imp