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Personality Can Change Over Time, Study Suggests
The Huffington Post: According to a new study, grouches don't necessarily remain grouches for the rest of their lives. Findings published in the journal Social Indicators Research suggest that people's personalities can change over time just as much as external factors like change in jobs or income, or marriage or divorce. The researchers, of the University of Manchester's School of Psychological Sciences, said that the findings indicate we can increase our well-being not just through these actual external changes, but also through changes in our personalities.
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Partnersuche: Amor ist online
ORF: Onlinedatings werden immer beliebter. Mittlerweile lernen knapp 25 Prozent aller US-Amerikaner ihre Partner über das Internet kennen, wie eine Überblicksstudie zeigt. In Europa verläuft der Trend ähnlich. "Onlinedating hat den Mainstream erreicht. Und es verliert zusehends das soziale Stigma, mit dem es einst versehen war", schreiben Forscher um Harry Reis im Fachblatt "Psychological Science in the Public Interest". Der Psychologe von der University of Rochester hat mit seinen Kollegen mehr als 400 einschlägige Studien ausgewertet, sie zeichnen ein Bild des gesellschaftlichen Umbruchs. Read the whole story: ORF See Harry Reis at the 24th APS Annual Convention
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Your Complicated Amygdala: Why Brain-Imaging Work Is Misleading
The Atlantic: Brain-imaging studies have been painting an overly-simplistic picture of the how the brain works. It has even filtered into TV programming. In one episode of a popular legal drama, a character claimed to have figured out that a policeman was racist because his amygdala activated whenever he was shown pictures of black people, demonstrating his fear of them. This simplified picture troubles many cognitive researchers, including Dr. William A. Cunningham of Ohio State University. It's true that the amygdala becomes increasingly active when people are afraid, but that's far from the whole story.
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How will your personality change as you age?
Business Insider: People show increased self-confidence, warmth, self-control, and emotional stability with age." Recent longitudinal and cross-sectional aging research has shown that personality traits continue to change in adulthood. In this article, we review the evidence for mean-level change in personality traits, as well as for individual differences in change across the life span. In terms of mean-level change, people show increased self-confidence, warmth, self-control, and emotional stability with age. These changes predominate in young adulthood (age 20–40).
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Problem Solving in a Doggy Age
San Francisco Chronicle: Allow me to quote from the first paragraph of an article on the site Science Daily: "Stuck solving a problem? Seek the obscure, says Tony McCaffrey, a psychology PhD from the University of Massachusetts. 'There's a classic obstacle to innovation called "functional fixedness," which is the tendency to fixate on the common use of an object or its parts.
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The Risks of ‘Racy’ Thinking
I worked in the news business for many years, and sometimes the pace could get hectic. But the work day didn’t really charge up until mid-morning. In the early morning hours, my routine was to leaf through several of the day’s newspapers, including the sports section, usually with my feet up on my desk. Occasionally I would check the AP ticker or turn on the TV, but not until after I had spent some time with the papers and my morning coffee. This was back in the 20th century, of course, and looking back that pace seems almost leisurely by today’s standards. Technology has radically altered the way that many of us consume information.
