As a coping mechanism, dwelling on life’s daily struggles can end up causing more harm than good. But the good news is, we do less of it as we get older. It’s called “rumination,” and essentially means that “when you’re upset you become passive and have a lot of thoughts More
Though her book The Fountainhead, was written over 60 years ago, Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism remain relevant today, particularly to business ethics, according to APS Fellow Edwin A. Locke, University of Maryland, in his invited talk, “Ethics in Business Organizations: Why Are They Needed? What Should Be Taught? Who More
They’re everywhere these days: colorful images showing the human brain in action. With the advent of CT and PET scans, and now the growing use of functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, researchers’ ability to correlate psychological processes with the activation of different brain areas is producing startling findings, seemingly More
The researchers used every medium from Canadian lab mice to Indian Rhesus monkeys to human twins, all in the pursuit of deciphering a condition that profoundly changes the way humans function. The disease is alcoholism, and while researchers know the necessary condition for its appearance – alcohol – they are More
