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Curiosity + Diligence as Good as Plain Intelligence, Researchers Say
International Business Times: Curiosity and diligence are as important as intelligence for a student's success, according to research released Wednesday. A European trio analyzed 200 existing studies that included 50,000 students and found that curiosity influenced academic performance. Not only that, but throw in contientiousness, and average-intelligence students shone as brightly as those deemed intelligent. Put together, conscientiousness and curiosity had as big an effect on performance as intelligence.
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Tel maître, tel chien
Le Matin: Une étude scientifique menée il y a quelques années dans la revue américaine Psychological Science prétendait démontrer que l'homme a tendance à choisir un compagnon canin qui lui ressemble. Les chercheurs concluaient que les personnes achetant un chien de race, le choisissaient en fonction de ressemblances physiques ou de traits de comportement communs. C'est donc une merveilleuse excuse pour voir ou revoir une galerie photos de "Tel maître, tel chien" ou vice-versa! Read the full story: Le Matin
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Wat maakt een briljante schaker?
Metro Netherlands: Wat onderscheidt een goede van een briljante schaker? Moet je aanleg hebben of is het een kwestie van oefenen? Als we de bestseller auteur Malcolm Gladwell moeten geloven hoef je geen geniaal brein te hebben voor succes of een aangeboren talent. Hoe getalenteerd je ook bent, je moet tienduizend uur trainen om echt goed te worden, zo staan beschreven in zijn boek 'Blink'. Dat betekent tien jaar lang twintig uur per week oefenen. Zo veel tijd kost het de hersenen om alles te assimileren wat nodig is om een sport of instrument werkelijk te beheersen.
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Thinking Out of the Box: How Physical Experience Enhances Creativity
Huffington Post: When Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg was working on his 1977 hit movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," he spent long hours puzzling over the artistic texture of the film, trying to get just the right feel. Late one night, he decided to put his work aside and take a drive to clear his head. He headed up Hollywood Hill to one of the vistas overlooking Los Angeles and -- impulsively, for no reason at all -- he did a hand-stand on the roof of his car. With his perspective on the illuminated LA cityscape turned topsy-turvy, he "saw" what would become the alien visitors' spacecraft. This Hollywood legend may be apocryphal, but creativity gurus love it anyway.
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The 2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize: Honoring Dr. Brenda Milner for her pioneering work in cognitive neuroscience
Scientific American: Tragic it is when a young mother never gets to meet her newborn child; however, it is also awe-inspiring to see a victim of this circumstance rise above and honor his mother’s sacrifice. On December 11th, 1925, the complications surrounding Paul Greengard’s birth resulted in the death of his mother, nee Pearl Meister. Almost 75 years later, the Nobel laureate and Rockefeller University professor and his wife, Ursula von Rydingsvard, paid homage to his late mother – and to women in science – by launching the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. This year’s recipient is Dr. Brenda Milner, the Dorothy J.
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Curiosity Doesn’t Kill The Student
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it's good for the student. That's the conclusion of a new study published in Perspectives in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The authors show that curiosity is a big part of academic performance. In fact, personality traits like curiosity seem to be as important as intelligence in determining how well students do in school. Intelligence is important to academic performance, but it's not the whole story. Everyone knows a brilliant kid who failed school, or someone with mediocre smarts who made up for it with hard work.