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What You Want In A Mate May Not Actually Be What You Want, Study Suggests
The Huffington Post: Think you know what you want in a mate? That may not matter when it comes to actually choosing one, a new study suggests. "People have ideas about the abstract qualities they're looking for in a romantic partner," study researcher Paul W. Eastwick, an assistant professor of psychology at Texas A&M University, said in a statement.
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Seven healthy sins: Some of the bad things you’ve been warned about may actually be good for you
Canada.com: Everything in moderation. I think of those three words as my mother's superhero buzz-phrase. Not quite as catchy as Bart Simpson's "Don't have a cow, man," or Captain Marvel's "Shazam!" but possibly more instructive. After decades of scare stories on TV and in magazines and newspapers about the dangers of red meat, alcohol, marijuana and sexually transmitted diseases, it's a wonder anyone even gets out of bed in the morning. It's dangerous out there. Liquor, red meat and anger can seriously harm you. And let us not forget the moral, legal and medical complications that travel hand-in-glove with marijuana and sex.
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Is There A Hidden Bias Against Creativity?
CEOs, teachers, and leaders claim they want creative ideas to solve problems. But creative ideas are rejected all the time. A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people have a hidden bias against creativity. We claim to like creativity, but when we’re feeling uncertain and anxious—just the way you might feel when you’re trying to come up with a creative solution to a problem—we cannot recognize the creative ideas we so desire. Generally, people think creativity is good. Before starting this study, the researchers checked that with a group of college students.
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Your Brain on Injustice
Some people are just more worried about injustice than others. Lisa Simpson, from the animated television show The Simpsons, frets over the plight of the Tibetan people and whether it’s morally acceptable to eat animals — even when people around her remain relatively indifferent to these causes. And the chances are good that there’s a Lisa in your family or circle of friends. Psychological scientists are trying to determine whether injustice-oriented people like Lisa have a unique way of processing information.
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How we can forgive people who are being rude to us
Yahoo India: Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): We usually tend to dislike someone who's being rude to us, but we may easily get rid of these bad feelings about them if we convinced ourselves that they are just having a bad day and it's not about us, according to a new study. A strategy commonly suggested in cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy is to find another way to look at the angry person. For example, you might tell yourself that they've probably just lost their dog or gotten a cancer diagnosis and are taking it out on you. Stanford researchers Jens Blechert, Gal Sheppes, Carolina Di Tella, Hants Williams, and James J.
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Solved: How Optical Illusion Turns Circles Into Hexagons
msnbc: When you stare at a colorful image and then turn to look at a neutral background, a "ghost image" appears in contrasting colors. Now, new research finds that a similar illusion occurs with shapes, turning circles into hexagons and vice versa. Though similar, the two visual phenomena have different causes. While the color optical illusion, occurs because of tired-out light-sensing cells in the eye, the shape afterimage illusion arises from the visual parts of the brain, said study researcher Hiroyuki Ito, of Kyushu University in Japan. "Afterimages are generally unnoticed or blurred," Ito wrote in an email to LiveScience.
