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Loneliness Destroys Physical Health From The Inside Out
Forbes: Loneliness can increase the risk of premature death in older adults by 14%, claims a major new study supported by the National Institutes of Health. The results expand a growing understanding of the potential for loneliness to damage physical health along with psychological health. What the research team found is that perceived social isolation—the “feeling of loneliness”—was strongly linked to two critical physiological responses in a group of 141 older adults: compromised immune systems and increased cellular inflammation.
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Plight of the Funny Female
The Atlantic: A few years ago, Laura Mickes was teaching her regular undergraduate class on childhood psychological disorders at the University of California, San Diego. It was a weighty subject, so occasionally she would inject a sarcastic comment about her own upbringing to lighten the mood. When she collected her professor evaluations at the end of the year, she was startled by one comment in particular: “She’s not funny,” the student wrote. ... “Men are willing to take more risks [in humor], and they also fail more miserably,” Gil Greengross, an evolutionary psychologist with Aberystwyth University in Wales and author of the 2011 study. But for the man, “it's worth it.
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Confianza generalizada: Cuatro lecciones de la genética y la cultura
Paul A. M. Van Lange[1] VIJ UniversityAmsterdam Originalmente publicado en: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol.24 (1), 71-76, 2015. Traducción de: Alejandro Franco (Portal de formación iPsicologia.com) Correo: [email protected] Abstract Este artículo aborda la confianza generalizada, un constructo examinado desde diversas disciplinas científicas del cual se asume que tiene una importancia central para entender el funcionamiento de individuos, grupos, y la sociedad en general.
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Inside the Psychologist’s Studio: Michael Posner
Michael I. Posner is a pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience, and was one of the first researchers to use then-emerging brain-imaging techniques to understand the brain processes underlying complex tasks. Posner studied the role of attention in tasks such as reading and number processing, and the development of attentional networks in infants and young children. He devised the Posner Cueing Task, which measures an individual's ability to shift attention. He received the highest scientific honor in the United States in 2009 when he was awarded the National Medal of Science.
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Your Adult Siblings May Hold The Secret To A Long, Happy Life
NPR: Somehow we're squeezing 16 people into our apartment for Thanksgiving this year, with relatives ranging in age from my 30-year-old nephew to my 90-year-old mother. I love them all, but in a way the one I know best is the middle-aged man across the table whose blue eyes look just like mine: my younger brother Paul. Paul and I kind of irritated each other when we were kids; I would take bites out of his precisely made sandwiches in just the spot I knew he didn't want me to, and he would hang around the living room telling jokes when he knew I wanted to be alone with the boy on the couch. ... The very presence of siblings in the household can be an education.
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Jeb Bush Was Wrong: There Are Many Careers for Psychological Scientists
By now, most of us have heard what Jeb Bush said in October about a psychology degree only preparing students to work in the fast-food industry. While behavioral scientists know that a psychology degree is in fact excellent preparation for a wide variety of jobs, Bush’s comment may reflect a broader lack of awareness about the incredibly diverse applications of degrees in psychological science. The Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) and APS have partnered to develop a searchable mentorship database that helps junior scientists connect with more established scientists to learn how psychological scientists can use their skills.
