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Discipline Is Overrated. Here’s What People Are Doing Instead
Now that it’s summer, I need to go to the gym and eat healthy — and I should probably add meditation to the list, too. Not only do I need to start these habits; I need discipline to stick to them. ... “You don’t have to try or make a decision to form habits,” said Dr. Wendy Wood, Provost Professor Emerita of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California Dornsife.
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Two Maps In the Mind: How the Brain Stores What We Know About Others
Podcast: Why does the brain use two different reference systems to encode social knowledge? Under the Cortex explores.
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When Does Consciousness Emerge in Babies?
... A team of researchers based in France looked for such patterns in infants. The group included cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the College of France and pediatrician Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. In one study, the group used caps fitted with electrodes to record fluctuations in electrical brain activity in 80 children aged five months, 12 months or 15 months. While wearing these caps, the young participants saw faces on a screen for different lengths of time. These images were embedded in visual patterns to make them more difficult to detect.
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Speaking Up for Science: Comments From APS Lifetime Achievement Awardees
Read what some of the world’s leading psychological researchers have to say about the political turmoil befalling science and academia.
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AI Doesn’t Care if You’re Polite to It. You Should Be Anyway
I often catch myself prefacing my queries to ChatGPT with a “please” and concluding with a “thank you.” Apparently, I am not alone. A December 2024 survey published by TechRadar found that approximately 67% of U.S. AI users are also polite and show gratitude toward AI search engines. ... What’s true of gratitude is also true of kindness and generosity more generally. Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at UC Riverside and author of the book “The How of Happiness,” conducted experiments where participants were asked to perform “five small acts of kindness per week.” She found that these small, frequent acts led to consistent and significant increases in happiness.
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Presidential Roundtable Explores DEI Across Borders
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are ideals that span the globe, but their implementation is anything but uniform, as scholars from Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States show.
