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How Your Brain Reacts To Mistakes Depends On Your Mindset
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t—you’re right,” said Henry Ford. A new study, to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who think they can learn from their mistakes have a different brain reaction to mistakes than people who think intelligence is fixed. “One big difference between people who think intelligence is malleable and those who think intelligence is fixed is how they respond to mistakes,” says Jason S. Moser, of Michigan State University, who collaborated on the new study with Hans S. Schroder, Carrie Heeter, Tim P. Moran, and Yu-Hao Lee.
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Goldie Hawn Plunges into Brain Science
Scientific American: Aspen, Colorado. When I arrived at the Aspen Meadows Resort for the Second Annual Aspen Brain Forum last Thursday evening, Goldie Hawn was getting out of a vehicle near the entrance. I knew she was about to give the keynote address, but I was startled to practically run into the actress. A grandmother now, Hawn looked fabulous in over-the-knee black leather boots and a chunky silver belt strung around a black miniskirt. It wasn’t so much her looks, though, that made her instantly recognizable. Her trademark laugh and general effervescence mark her like a strobe light, quite visible even in the bright Colorado sun.
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Les babouins apprennent l’analogie
La Marseillaise: Une équipe du laboratoire de psychologie cognitive (CNRS/Université de Provence), dirigée par Joël Fagot associée au chercheur américain Roger Tompson du Franklin & Marshall College est parvenue à prouver la capacité au « raisonnement » par analogie. « Cette publication dans la revue Psychological Science est une grande avancée, puisque jusque-là cette manifestation d’intelligence abstraite n’avait pu être démontrée de manière aussi claire que chez des chimpanzés ayant auparavant appris de l’homme une forme de langage. Nous avons obtenu ce résultat avec des babouins », explique Joël Fagot.
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Newly divorced
Democrat and Chronicle: Researchers took a look at several positive characteristics people might have — self-esteem, optimism, ease with relationships. They found that self-compassion is the one that can help newly divorced people the most. Self-compassion — a combination of kindness toward oneself, recognition of common humanity and the ability to let painful emotions pass — "can promote resilience and positive outcomes in the face of divorce," say the University of Arizona researchers. "This study opens a window for how we can potentially cultivate self-compassion among recently separated adults," says David Sbarra, co-author of the study published in the journal Psychological Science.
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Brain continues learning while asleep, scientists find
The Telegraph: Even after people have gone to bed for the night their brains can carry on processing information according to the study by researchers at Michigan State University in the US. The findings are highlighted in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. "We speculate that we may be investigating a separate form of memory, distinct from traditional memory systems," said Kimberly Fenn, assistant professor of psychology and lead researcher on the project. "There is substantial evidence that during sleep, your brain is processing information without your awareness and this ability may contribute to memory in a waking state." Read the whole story: The Telegraph
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«Mi distraggo o ci ragiono?» Come si affrontano le emozioni negative
Corriere della Serra: A volte la miglior difesa è la fuga, e in questo caso si scappa un po' da se stessi. Quando siamo travolti da un'emozione molto negativa, la reazione spontanea è cercare di distrarci, non pensarci; se invece l'emozione è meno forte scegliamo di affrontarla in maniera più razionale, riflettendoci e trovando un modo per sostenerla. Siamo umani, e ci comportiamo proprio così: lo ha dimostrato una ricerca sulla rivista Psychological Science, condotta da un gruppo di psicologi dell'università di Stanford.
