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What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
The New York Times: Like most 25-year-olds, Julia Rozovsky wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her life. She had worked at a consulting firm, but it wasn’t a good match. Then she became a researcher for two professors at Harvard, which was interesting but lonely. Maybe a big corporation would be a better fit. Or perhaps a fast-growing start-up. All she knew for certain was that she wanted to find a job that was more social. ‘‘I wanted to be part of a community, part of something people were building together,’’ she told me. She thought about various opportunities — Internet companies, a Ph.D. program — but nothing seemed exactly right.
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Want To Make Better Predictions?
NPR: We constantly make predictions about the unknown, at scales both large and small. Which presidential candidates will win each party's nomination? Which stocks will go up in the next six months — and which down? Should I have a second child? Will I really enjoy the chocolate chip pancakes most, or should I order the pumpkin waffles instead? When it comes to geopolitical decisions, most of us aren't very good.
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Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage Linked to Self-Interest
Why do opponents of same-sex marriage really oppose it? A study concludes that many people believe gay men and women are more sexually promiscuous than heterosexuals, which they may fear could threaten their own marriages.
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Endowed Position Created for Chair of the Psychology Department
Lawrence Culp, Jr., chair of the College’s Board of Visitors and Governors, is providing $2 million in endowment funding to support the chair of Washington College’s Department of Psychology. Specifically, the gift will endow the Dr. Carol C. Culp Chair in Psychology in honor of his late mother. Recognizing the importance of leadership within the department, this endowed professorship will be held by the department chair. Washington College’s Department of Psychology provides curriculum, labs, internships, and programming in both clinical/counseling and behavioral neuroscience.
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Test Scores Drop as the School Day Drags on
Pacific Standard: You've probably noticed that it's harder to think clearly after a long day of reading, writing, and arithmetic—in short, after a long day of thinking. For the most part, that's not a particularly big deal, but a study out today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests it might matter to schools and their students. As it turns out, each hour that passes before starting a test drags scores down by a little bit, meaning students who take a test late in the day will perform noticeably worse. A core assumption underlying academic achievement testing is that the tests measure, at least roughly, how much students have learned.
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Las influencias profundas de la religión en la psicología: moralidad, relaciones intergrupales, autoconceptuacióne inculturación
Adam B. Cohen[1] Universidad Estatal de Arizona Originalmente publicado en: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 24 (1), 77-82, 2015. Traducción de: Alejandro Franco (Portal de formación iPsicologia.com) Correo: [email protected] Abstract La religión afecta los procesos psicológicos de maneras diversas e importantes, y es un tema que recibe cada vez más atención por parte de los psicólogos.
