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Psicologia: Gli Anziani Sono Davvero Piu’ Saggi. Studio Spiega Perche’
Agenzia Stampa Quotidiana Nazionale: Prendere decisioni giuste? Con l'avanzare degli anni si acquista la capacita' di decidere per il meglio, almeno per quanto riguarda le scelte sul lungo termine. A sostenerlo e' uno studio pubblicato su Psychological Science da un gruppo di studiosi della Texas A&M University di Austin (Usa) da cui emerge che, mentre da giovani si e' piu' istintivi e in grado di effettuare scelte convenienti nel breve termine, da adulti si e' piu' posati e capaci di creare strategie in base all'ambiente circostante, e di prendere decisioni che porteranno a un vantaggio nel lungo periodo. Leggere più/Read the full story: Agenzia Stampa Quotidiana Nazionale
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Who’s the daddy? Men also suffer from ‘baby fever’, the desperate desire to be a parent
Daily Mail: A new study has revealed that men - as well as women - suffer from 'baby fever', the overwhelming desire to have children. The emotional and physical phenomenon is usually associated with women, who can be subject to sudden and extreme maternal urges. Gary Brase, associate professor of psychology at Kansas State University, and his wife Sandra, a project co-ordinator with the university's College of Education, have spent nearly 10 years researching baby fever. After releasing their findings yesterday Professor Brase said: 'Baby fever is this idea out in popular media that at some point in their lives, people get this sudden change in their desire to have children.
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In Remembrance of William K. Estes
National Medal of Science recipient William K. Estes passed away on August 17th at the age of 92. His long and productive career encompassed the science of learning and memory from behaviorism to cognitive science, with seminal contributions to both. He was also an active member of APS and was the founding editor of the journal Psychological Science. Estes (born June 17, 1919) began his graduate studies under the tutelage of B. F. Skinner during the early 1940s. Together, Estes and Skinner developed a conditioning paradigm, called conditioned suppression, which represented a new technique for studying learned fear (Estes & Skinner, 1941).
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50th Anniversary of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
Stories of torture, corporate greed, fraud, and misconduct are regular features of daily news coverage. For years, psychological scientists have tried to understand why ordinary and decent people are driven to commit such atrocious acts. Much of what we know on this topic can be traced to the work of one man: Stanley Milgram. Fifty years ago, Milgram, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University, began a famous and controversial series of experiments to test the boundaries of people’s obedience to authority and determine how far normal people would go in inflicting pain on others just because they were told to.
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Spoilers: une brève réflexion
Le Nouvelliste: Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat… college.» – Annie Hall Les spoilers c’est mal. C’est là une des idées reçues les plus tenaces qui soient. Pourquoi lire 1984 ou regarder The Usual Suspects en connaissant d’avance la choquante et fascinante surprise finale? Mais encore, pourquoi pas? En effet, une nouvelle etude de la University of California at San Diego révèle que les spoilers, au contraire, augmentent le plaisir! Lire plus: Le Nouvelliste
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Kate Winslet and Ryan Gosling have the stuff of heroes. How about the rest of us?
Los Angeles Times: It's the stuff movies are made of, but this time it was real life: Actress Kate Winslet reportedly rescued billionaire Richard Branson's elderly mother from a burning home on Branson's private island in the Caribbean. And actor Ryan Gosling allegedly put himself in the middle of a heated New York City street fight, breaking it up. Should we consider these two celebrities heroes? And are most other people capable of the same -- of putting themselves in harm's way to help someone else?