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Dads Who Share the Load Bolster Daughters’ Aspirations
Fathers who help with household chores are more likely to raise daughters who aspire to less traditional, and potentially higher paying, careers, according to research forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The study findings indicate that how parents share dishes, laundry and other domestic duties plays a key role in shaping the gender attitudes and aspirations of their children, especially daughters. While mothers’ gender and work equality beliefs were key factors in predicting kids’ attitudes toward gender, the strongest predictor of daughters’ own professional ambitions was their fathers’ approach to household chores.
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Remembering, as an Extreme Sport
The New York Times: SAN DIEGO – The last match of the tournament had all the elements of a classic showdown, pitting style versus stealth, quickness versus deliberation, and the world’s foremost card virtuoso against its premier numbers wizard. If not quite Ali-Frazier or Williams-Sharapova, the duel was all the audience of about 100 could ask for. They had come to the first Extreme Memory Tournament, or XMT, to see a fast-paced, digitally enhanced memory contest, and that’s what they got.
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Heavily Decorated Classrooms Disrupt Attention and Learning In Young Children
Researchers hope some new findings may eventually generate guidelines to help teachers optimally design classrooms.
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How “tightness” vs “looseness” explains the U.S. political map
The Washington Post: We are forever in search of ways to better understand the cultural differences in our country that lead us to such divergent politics. A new paper by two psychology professors at the University of Maryland proposes a new way to understand the differences between the states: tightness versus looseness. Professors Jesse R. Harrington and Michele J. Gelfand studied "the degree to which social entities are 'tight' (have many strongly enforced rules and little tolerance for deviance) versus 'loose' (have few strongly enforced rules and greater tolerance for deviance)" and then produced a ranking of each state from tightest to loosest.
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Writing Helps You Remember Things Better Than Typing
BuzzFeed: Close the lid of your laptop: New research shows that taking notes by hand helps you remember conceptual information better than typing notes on your computer. Researchers asked note-takers to listen to a TED Talk and later asked questions about it that either recalled facts or required conceptual thinking. Read the whole story: BuzzFeed
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The Buffer Zone: Romance and Insecurity
The Huffington Post: Let's call them Linda and Max. They've been a committed couple for some years now, but Max brings a lot of emotional baggage to the relationship. Previous girlfriends treated him shabbily, and as a result he's insecure about Linda, not entirely convinced she loves him. On occasion this persistent fretting makes him act like a . . . well, a jerk. You know Linda and Max. I know I do--or at least versions of them. Most people would say they're doomed as a couple, yet they last. Somehow, when Max is threatened, Linda knows to give him the reassurances he needs. She intuitively helps him control his emotions and feel safer, and as a result he behaves better.
