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Fatherhood can be the birth of positive change
Los Angeles Times: Ten tiny fingers and 10 tiny toes may be enough to change men's lives in ways they never thought possible. A recent study found that some men dropped their delinquent ways when they went from "hood" to fatherhood. The research, conducted by scientists in Oregon and Texas, tracked 206 males from a medium-size metropolitan city in the Pacific Northwest. Participants were recruited at age 12 and assessed annually over 19 years, until age 31. Read the full story: Los Angeles Times
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Babies Picky About Who They Imitate
LiveScience: Babies are famous for copying adults, but a new study shows that little ones carefully choose whether to imitate an adult's actions based on how credible they think the adult is. For example, if an adult has previously displayed unreliable or dishonest behavior, the baby is less likely to mimic them, according to the study. Researchers divided 60 babies between 13 months and 16 months into two groups. In the first group, "unreliable" experimenters looked inside a container while expressing excitement, and invited the babies to discover whether the box contained a toy or was empty. For that group's experiment, the box was empty.
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Sound and vision work hand in hand
Yahoo! India: A new study has revealed that our senses of sight and hearing work closely together, perhaps more than people realize. In the study of how one sense can affect another, Ladan Shams, aUCLA associate professor of psychology and her colleagues showed 63 participants a large number of dots on a screen in two separate phases, with a break between the phases. In one phase, the dots moved around randomly; in the other, some of the dots moved together from right to left. In both phases, the dots were accompanied by sound. Participants were divided into three groups.
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Why all parents have a favourite child
The Telegraph: In front of me I have two so-called “baby books”, both given to me as presents, in which I was supposed to chronicle the infant achievements of my sons, George and Johnny. George’s has been meticulously filled in: everything from the names of the midwives who delivered him, to the order in which his teeth came through, his first illness (conjunctivitis) and an account of his first Christmas so overwrought with emotion that it makes the Nativity itself seem like the warm-up act. And Johnny’s baby book? Empty. Not a thing. Not even a record of his birth weight, or his middle names — which, I must admit, I am struggling to remember. That’s not all.
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The Canadian Psychological Association’s 73rd Annual Convention
CPA’s 73rd Annual Convention will be held June 14-16, 2012 at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For more information visit: http://www.cpa.ca/convention/
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38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held June 21-24 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information visit: http://www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html
