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Open With a Hook: Perspectives on Science Writing Workshop
In the Perspectives on Science Writing workshop, four speakers from different backgrounds gave outstanding advice about the mysterious field of science writing. Randall Engle, Maryanne Garry, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, and Paul Silvia all offered unique perspectives based on years of writing experience, but all of them focused on the same basic messages. Their primary stress was: just write. Write a lot, whenever you can. Set yourself a goal, don’t make excuses, and minimize distractions. Close your Internet browser, for example, and stop reading blogs when you should be working on your thesis! The panel also agreed that you should keep things simple.
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Brain Adenosine Mediates the Negative Effect of Mental Fatigue on Endurance Exercise Performance
My name is Walter Staiano from Bangor University, United Kingdom, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. In Italian: Interaction between positive effects of caffeine treatment, considered as an adenosine receptor antagonist, and negative consequences of mental fatigue on subsequent physical activity suggests contribution of brain adenosinergic mechanisms on changes in physical performance. These outcomes can better clarify the importance of brain mechanisms on physical performance tasks.
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Cultural Differences Are Not Always Reduced to Individual Differences
My name is Jinkyung Na from the University of Michigan and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. We show that differences in social orientation and cognition between cultures do not necessarily have corollary individual differences within cultures. Evidence comes from a large-scale study conducted with five measures of independent versus interdependent social orientation and 11 measures of analytic versus holistic cognitive style.
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Baby – I’m Taking you Around the World!
“Write a child-care manual for your society. Give Dr. Spock type advice about child care.” You might be rather confused as to what the above title might suggest. Well, it is an actual term paper assignment handed out by Judy S. DeLoache when she taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DeLoache, whose primary area of research is early cognitive development, asked her upper level undergraduate students to pick a traditional non-Western society and share their research about child caring beliefs and practices in that particular society.
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Assessing Propensity and Satisfaction as Predictors of Trust in Teamwork
My name is Nicole Thompson from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. The current study examines individuals’ propensities to and satisfactions in trust decisions when engaged in teamwork across multiple performance cycles. Findings showed satisfaction captured more variance in trust than propensity across all cycles. Poster Session II - Board: II- 076 Friday, May 27, 2011, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Columbia Hall Nicole J. Thompson Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Sarah F. Allgood Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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Reflecting on Behavior: Giacomo Rizzolatti Gives a Tour of the Mirror Mechanism
In his keynote address at the APS 23rd Annual Convention, Giacomo Rizzolatti of the Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy, gave a brief history of the mirror mechanism. In general terms, the neurons that form the basis of this mechanism fire when a person executes an action as well as when he or she perceives it. If anyone is qualified to describe the evolution of this field of study, it's Rizzolatti, whose laboratory discovered the connection in the late 1990s while studying monkeys. To demonstrate the mechanism in action, Rizzolatti played a video of one of his laboratory's first mirror neuron studies.
