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Mothers who nurture, not spoil children, raise healthier adults
Examiner: In Utah County, it's hard to go anywhere without seeing an expectant mother. Utah women top all other states in fertility with an average of 2.6 children per woman, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau. Mothers deserve tribute for the many skinned knees they treated on the playground, the countless sporting and extracurricular events they cheered at for their children and the countless hours spent caring for sick children. Now scientists, who published their research in the journal Psychological Science, January 23, 2012, assert that all that nurturing by your mother may have contributed to better health as an adult.
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Q & A With Psychological Scientist Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann is a psychological scientist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. We invited our Facebook and Twitter followers to submit their questions to Hofmann on self-control and temptation. Below are his answers: In your study, did you ask people what they craved or liked, or did you choose a typical food most people try to stay away from while they are dieting? We know from food diary and laboratory studies that dieters have particular problems staying away from highly palatable food, ¾ food the body finds rewarding because it contains high amounts of fat, sugar or salt.
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Psychopathy Conference: Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychopathy
The Psychopathy Conference will be held May 3, 2012 at Congress Centre London. For more information visit http://www.medineo.org/products/24-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-psychopathy.aspx.
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Notre carte intérieure est orientée vers le nord
Yahoo France: Les géographes occidentaux ont finalement bien raison d'orienter leur carte routière ou touristique en faisant correspondre le haut de ces cartes avec le nord. En tout cas, ce choix s'est ancré dans notre cerveau, au point de nous permettre de ne pas nous perdre, comme l'a constaté une équipe allemande de l'Institut Max-Planck de Tübingen dans la revue Psychological Science mise en ligne le 29 décembre. Read the whole story: Yahoo France
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Decisions: We’re maxed out say Montreal researchers
The Montreal Gazette: One has to wonder whether Liberal MP Justin Trudeau might have been suffering from a bout of decision fatigue when he launched an s-bomb on Environment Minister Peter Kent during Question Period in mid-December. Parliament was in its final days of a five-week session and Trudeau had recently been under attack for his views on abortion and the long-gun registry. The mental work of parliamentarians can wear them down, leading to slip-ups in self-control. It's a form of mental distress recently labeled by psychologists as decision fatigue.
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Good Reason to Dwell on What Might Have Been
Don’t beat yourself up for daydreaming about what would have happened if you’d chosen a different career, bought a different house, or committed to a different partner. Research suggests that thinking about what might have been helps us find meaning in past events we can no longer change. Laura Kray of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley is an expert in counterfactual research. In this clip from the Haas School, Kray discusses some of the research she will present at the 24th APS Annual Convention. In one experiment, Kray and her coauthors asked participants to write about a turning point in their lives.
