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Discarding Ideas (Literally)
The Wall Street Journal: Plagued by unwanted thoughts? Try writing them down and throwing the paper away. A new study finds that this trick works. First, students were asked to write down positive or negative
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To Clear Negative Thoughts, Physically Throw Them Away: Study
The Huffington Post: Bothered by negative thoughts? Clearing your mind of them could be as simple as writing them down and physically throwing them away, according to a new study, published in the journal Psychological
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Bothered by Negative, Unwanted Thoughts? Just Throw Them Away
If you want to get rid of unwanted, negative thoughts, try just ripping them up and tossing them in the trash. In a new study, researchers found that when people wrote down their thoughts on
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Call for Papers: International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) invites paper submissions for the 2013 conference. Conference Location: Barcelona, Spain, EU Conference Date: July 22-25, 2013 Deadline for Symposia Submissions: February 15, 2013 Deadline
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How Changing Visual Cues Can Affect Attitudes About Weight
NPR: With most Americans fat or fatter, you’d think we’d be lightening up on the anti-fat attitudes. Alas, no. Even doctors often think their overweight patients are weak-willed. But changing negative attitudes about body size
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The Unexpected Impact of Coded Appeals
The New York Times: After signing into law the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously told an aide, “we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long
