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Mindsets for Self-Improvement
Carol S. Dweck's empirical work has revealed that when we see ourselves as possessing fixed attributes, we blind ourselves to our potential for growth and prematurely give up on engaging in constructive, self-improving behaviors. In contrast, seeing the self as a developmental work in progress can lead to the acquisition of new skills and capabilities. This theoretical framework has been used to address a variety of societal concerns, such as achievement gaps between ethnic or gender groups.
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Clinical Psychological Science Call for Papers
We are interested in individual articles as well as series of articles on novel and emerging topics in clinical psychological science. Examples of special interest include Chronic disease and mental health Computational psychiatry Genetics and epigenetics Transdiagnosis and transtreatments Microbiome and connectome and psychopathology Psychoneuroimmunology Diet and micronutrients While each of these specific topics is of keen interest, as a group, they also convey the special thrust of the journal. We are interested in the forefront of science and in taking advantage of multiple advances in theory, assessment, and technology that can inform our core domains and bring together multiple approa…
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The Two Faces of Shame
The Huffington Post: Twenty-four-year-old Shawn Gementera was caught red-handed pilfering letters from private mailboxes along San Francisco's Fulton Street. Mail theft is a serious crime, and it was not Gementera's first run-in with the law. Even so, the judge opted for a lenient sentence -- just two months in jail and three years of supervised release. But the supervised release came with an unusual condition. Gementera's sentence required him to stand in front of a San Francisco post office, wearing a sandwich board with these words in large letters: "I stole mail.
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Trading Places
Hide-and-seek: child’s play, or an important developmental tool that teaches children how to work together? British scientists Alex Gillespie and Beth Richardson think it might be both. Gillespie, at the University of Stirling, and Richardson, at Lancaster University, are interested in perspective exchange — switching social positions as children do when they play hide-and-seek; as a game of hide-and-seek progresses, seekers become hiders, and hiders become seekers. Perspectives switch. The researchers think perspective exchange might play an important role in cooperative activities that require people to work together across distinct points of view and distinct social demands.
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Science Explains What Your Desk Says About You
Fast Company: Does every object on your desk have its proper place? Do you keep your pencils sharpened to the exact same length and dust regularly between your computer keys? Or maybe there’s so much junk on your desk that you can’t even see the surface. Maybe all that crap looks like it’s levitating. It turns out, there are benefits to both types of work spaces. A recent study published in Psychological Science, found that subjects who worked in a clean room were more likely to make charitable donations and eat healthy foods than those who worked in a messy room. For example, when participants in the clean room were offered chocolate or fruit, they chose the fruit.
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Does sitting at a big desk make you cheat?
The Washington Post: There could be an upside to being confined to that tiny cubicle at work: It may make you less likely to cheat. A new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science finds that sitting at a large workspace or in a big seat in a car can make people feel more powerful — and therefore, lead them to act more deceptively. The research, titled “The Ergonomics of Dishonesty,” was led by Andy Yap of MIT (who conducted the research while at Columbia University) and Dana Carney of the University of California, Berkeley.
