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White Americans See Anti-White Bias on the Rise
The Wall Street Journal: Both white Americans and black Americans perceive significant progress in the fight against anti-black bias, but white Americans believe the progress has come at their expense, a new survey finds. The researchers contacted a random national sample of 209 whites and 208 blacks, and asked them how much discrimination each group faced, on a scale of one to ten, for each decade since the 1950s. Read the whole story: The Wall Street Journal
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Is Your Child a Brat? Use Rewards, Not Punishment
Big Think: The idea that punishment teaches a kid not to misbehave is a myth, pure and simple. Here are three steps for actually changing your kid's unpleasant behavior. Punishment--mild, severe, abusive--changes behavior only at the moment it is delivered. It doesn’t change the overall level or rate of the behavior. So if you have a child that is doing something horrible and you smack them, it’ll stop it for the moment, but it won’t decrease the number of times they do the horrible thing. Watch the video: Big Think
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You’re Rubber, I’m Glue – How Can I Impress You?
Would you rather be a professor or his dependent student? We tend to think being a dependent person isn’t a good thing, but new research has found some positive aspects of dependency. An article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science explains that dependent people have a need to impress others, which leads to active, not passive, behavior. In one study, a dependent and non-dependent volunteer, as measured on a personality test, were paired up to debate an issue the researchers knew they didn’t agree on. Although the researchers expected the dependent person to give in, they found that 70 percent of the time it was actually the nondependent volunteer who gave in.
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El poder encamina a la infidelidad
El Colombiano: Ellos lo son, lo ha reconocido la sociedad. Pero ¿y de ellas qué? Infidelidad. Que los unos y las otras lo sean... hoy no parece raro. ¿Qué los motiva? El poder juega. Un detonante a la luz de un nuevo estudio en Psychological Science , journal de la Association for Psychological Science. Mujeres poderosas también les hacen trampa a sus parejas, aunque los medios periodísticos se ocupen solo de políticos, deportistas o empresarios que son pillados.
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Monkeys show ability to remember things
The Washington Post: Monkey see, monkey recall – at least for a couple of minutes. Ben Basile of Emory University in Atlanta placed five rhesus monkeys in front of a touchscreen that briefly showed a blue square and two red ones. After an interval of up to two minutes, the blue square reappeared in a different place, and the monkeys were prompted to replicate the pattern in its new position by tapping the screen to place red squares. Their success rate was significantly better than chance, showing for the first time that they are able to recall things from recent memory. This is more advanced than recognizing a familiar object, and it could be a precursor to long-term memory.
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Gesünder leben
Shweizer Familie: Die Hand greift morgens wieder einmal zum Buttergipfeli anstatt zum Dinkelbrötchen. Mittags in der Kantine duftet die Bratwurst mit Zwiebelsauce einfach besser als der Zander auf Spinat. Mit dem Lift geht es zurück in den dritten Stock, obwohl man sich vorgenommen hatte, die Treppe zu nehmen. Und das Joggen nach der Arbeit fällt flach, weil der Kollege spontan zu einem Feierabendbier einlädt. Die meisten Menschen wissen, wie man schlank bleibt und sich vor Volkskrankheiten wie Bluthochdruck, Schlaganfall oder Diabetes schützt: weniger Zucker und Fett essen, fünf Portionen Früchte und Gemüse am Tag, Vollkornbrot statt Weissbrot, Wasser statt Cola – und genügend Bewegung.
