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Nietzsche was right: adversity makes you stronger
The Telegraph: US psychologists found that while traumatic experiences such as assault, bereavement or natural disaster can be extremely damaging, smaller amounts of trauma may help people develop resilience. “Everybody’s heard the aphorism 'whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,’ ” Mark Seery, a researcher at the University at Buffalo, said. “But in psychology, a lot of ideas that seem like common sense aren’t supported by scientific evidence. “Indeed, a lot of solid research shows that having miserable life experiences is bad for you.
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Study discovers the ordinary psycho
New Zealand Herald: There's more to psychopaths than being murderous. They aren't all as smart as Hannibal Lecter, or evil, and they can change, say researchers. Victoria University Associate Professor Devon Polaschek, one of four authors of research about to be published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, says psychopaths of the popular imagination give the personality disorder a bad name. Patrick Bateman in the film American Psycho inserts a chainsaw into a prostitute. Alex in A Clockwork Orange fantasises about torture and slaughter while listening to music. But psychopaths can wreak havoc in workplaces without stabbing, or eating, their colleagues.
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Research States That Prejudice Comes From a Basic Human Need and Way of Thinking
Where does prejudice come from? Not from ideology, say the authors of a new paper. Instead, prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need, associated with a particular way of thinking. People who aren’t comfortable with ambiguity and want to make quick and firm decisions are also prone to making generalizations about others. In a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Arne Roets and Alain Van Hiel of Ghent University in Belgium look at what psychological scientists have learned about prejudice since the 1954 publication of an influential book, The Nature of Prejudice by Gordon Allport.
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26th Conference of the EHPS
The 26th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society will be held August 21st-25th, 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. For more information visit: http://www.ehps.net/index.php/Conferences/ehps-conferences.html
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Ergonomics & Human Factors
Ergonomics & Human Factors 2012 will be held April 16-19, 2012, Blackpool, UK. For more information visit: http://www.ergonomics.org.uk/events/ehf2012
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Lauri Nummenmaa
Aalto University, Finland http://users.utu.fi/latanu What does your research focus on? I study the brain basis of emotions and social cognition. Using the multimodal brain-imaging approach, I aim to understand the neural circuitry that enables us to navigate the social and physical world unharmed. In particular, I am interested in how the brain automatically processes the emotional and social cues conveyed by other people, and how this enables our brains to tune our behavior and mental processes to manage, for example, social interactions. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you? I simply stumbled upon brain imaging.