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‘Gray Rocking’ Is A Way To Deal With Difficult People
... It could be a reasonable strategy to “be a gray rock” when dealing with someone you interact with only occasionally, such as an annoying neighbor or co-worker,“but when there is a narcissist in your house, that’s different,” said Sandra Graham-Bermann, the director of the Child Resilience and Trauma Lab and a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Michigan. In situations where you don’t feel unsafe but do have to interact with a difficult person, the gray rock method is “just good advice on how you manage” them, Graham-Bermann said. “You don’t give extra attention; limit your engagement and protect yourself.”
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These Stunning Images Show Every Nerve in a Mouse
Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers have never built a complete map of this essential network in any mammalian body. Now a study published in Cell shows a complete, three-dimensional map of every single nerve fiber threading through a mouse. It completes the first-ever mammalian “connectome,” a flowchart of an entire nervous system, beyond just the well-researched brain and spinal cord.
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Student Notebook: The Physics of Autistic Inertia
Hari Srinivasan describes the difficulty autistic people face in starting, stopping, or switching tasks, as well as how to manage this feeling of “inertia” as a graduate student.
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Why We Should Thank Pigeons For Our AI Breakthroughs
... If computers can do all that with just a pigeonlike brain, some animal researchers are now wondering if actual pigeons deserve more credit than they’re commonly given. “When considered in light of the accomplishments of AI, the extension of associative learning to purportedly more complicated forms of cognitive performance offers fresh prospects for understanding how biological systems may have evolved,” Ed Wasserman, a psychologist at the University of Iowa, wrote in a recent study in the journal Current Biology.
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From Crisis to Opportunity: Where Psychological Scientists Can Find Foundation Support
As the U.S. government slashes research funding, philanthropic organizations emerge as vital partners.
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New Anti-Autocracy Handbook Aims to Give Power Back to Scholars
APS Fellow Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues recently developed the Anti-Autocracy Handbook, designed to provide guidance to scholars navigating the growing global trend of democratic backsliding.
