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In Promoting Green Behaviors, Pride Beats Guilt
When it comes to our relationship to the environment, we have a lot to feel guilty about. That has led many environmental organizations to leverage that uncomfortable feeling. Don't recycle that bottle, and it'll probably end up in the ocean, where fish will eat the degraded plastic and die. How does that make you feel? It turns out that this is not an optimal approach to promoting environmentally friendly behavior. Recent research concludes that, when it comes to saving the Earth, pride is a far stronger motivator than guilt.
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Natural Opioids in the Brain May Support Social Bonding
Oxytocin and dopamine have long been lauded as hormonal wellspring of happiness, but researchers suggest that these natural opioids may also play an important role in social attachment.
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How Low Income Affects Routine Decisions
The US government shutdown has left scores of people without paychecks. Their worries about money will be difficult to suppress and may interfere with other experiences, research suggests.
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Funding for Training Methods to Enhance Cognition in Aging
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of the 27 institutes and centers within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), invites clinical trial applications for developing or improving novel training methods to enhance cognition in aging.
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Submit by April 15: Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference
The Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) conference invites psychological scientists to submit presentations, posters, or panels for its upcoming conference October 7-10, 2018, in Washington, DC. BECC is a conference focused on understanding the behavior and decision making of individuals and organizations, and using that knowledge to accelerate a transition to an energy-efficient and low-carbon future. The theme of the 2018 BECC conference is “Building Bridges,” which emphasizes the role that the behavioral sciences can play in achieving solutions to climate change.
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The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
Though their numbers are growing, only 27 percent of all students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the United States are female. The gender gap only grows worse from there: Just 18 percent of American computer-science college degrees go to women. This is in the United States, where many college men proudly describe themselves as “male feminists” and girls are taught they can be anything they want to be. Meanwhile, in Algeria, 41 percent of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math—or “STEM,” as its known—are female. There, employment discrimination against women is rife and women are often pressured to make amends with their abusive husbands.
