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Eddie Tong
National University of Singapore, Singapore http://ap3.fas.nus.edu.sg/fass/psytmwe/ What does your research focus on? I am interested in a wide range of topics, but my research centers on appraisal theories of emotion. I am also interested in the cognitive processes associated with different emotions. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you? I first got into appraisal research in 1999 as a masters student in the National University of Singapore. Most appraisal studies up to that point were aimed at showing which emotion is associated with which appraisal. This is important, but I realized that more could be done.
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Les gènes de l’intelligence remis en question
Le Monde: Avec l'explosion des analyses génétiques, de nombreux travaux ont associé des variations dans plusieurs gènes impliqués dans le fonctionnement du cerveau avec le niveau d'intelligence. Prochainement publiée par la revue Psychological Science, une étude internationale revient sur ces "gènes de l'intelligence" : elle a essayé de retrouver leur lien avec le QI en utilisant trois jeux de données indépendants qui totalisent presque 10 000 personnes. En bref, ces chercheurs ont suivi le traditionnel et indispensable chemin de la science : répliquer l'expérience pour voir si l'on aboutit au même résultat. Read the full story: Le Monde
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Män har uppblåsta egon
Sveriges Television: De signaler vi ger varandra när vi flörtar kan vara svårtolkade. Speciellt män läser ofta kvinnors signaler fel. I studien fick 96 manliga och 103 kvinnliga studenter gå på snabbdejt med varandra. De fick tre minuter på sig att prata med fem olika potentiella partners. Innan samtalen fick deltagarna ranka sin egen attraktionskraft och uppge hur pass intresserade de var av tillfälligt sex. Efter varje dejt fick deltagarna sen betygsätta varandra på ett antal punkter - till exempel när det gällde fysisk attraktivitet och sexuellt intresse för den andre deltagaren. Read the whole story: Sveriges Television
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E. David Klonsky
University of British Columbia www.PEBL.org What does your research focus on? Over the past several years, my research has focused on understanding and assessing motivations for non-suicidal self-injury and attempted suicide, as well as the role of emotion in psychopathology. Findings from these projects have led me to develop a new line of research on the classification and assessment of emotional experience. For example, how can we best understand, differentiate, and operationalize emotional reactivity and emotion regulation? Are there primary emotions (e.g., sad, glad, mad, and scared) that can be understood and predicted through a parsimonious, evolutionarily grounded theory?
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Why ugly men believe pretty women are interested in them
Evening Herald: SOME men can get by on a wink and a smile -- but those with less chiselled features make up for it with misguided optimism about their own appearance. The study could help explain the mystery of why so many men think women are interested in them when they are not, a study claims. Some men are able to snare a partner far more attractive than them through relentless persistence and overblown belief in their own sex appeal. Scientists think this may be down to an evolutionary trait which tricks men into overestimating the value of their looks to prevent them from missing a mating opportunity.
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Donna Rose Addis
University of Auckland, New Zealand www.memorylab.org What does your research focus on? My research combines behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological methods to investigate how we remember the past, imagine the future, and construct a present sense of self. I have a particular interest in the role of the hippocampus in memory, and I have also examined how memory and future thinking changes with hippocampal dysfunction in temporal lobe epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, and healthy aging. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you?
