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8th Annual RCIO Conference
The 8th Annual River Cities Industrial-Organizational Psychology Conference will be held October 26-27, 2012 at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN. For more information visit: www.utc.edu/Academic/Industrial-OrganizationalPsychology/RCIO2012.htm
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Respect Matters More Than Money for Happiness in Life
New research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status that comes from how much money you have stashed in your bank account. Psychological scientist Cameron Anderson of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and his co-authors explore the relationship between different types of status and well-being in a new article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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‘Color Blind’ Policies Could Make Diversity Harder to Achieve
Whether it be growing concerns about bias or recognition of the value of diversity, many organizations and institutions have elected to deemphasize race or remove it entirely from their decision-making processes. Yet new evidence from psychological science research suggests that this color-blind approach may not be as effective as people believe it is. Color blindness offers a seemingly simple way to deal with race: If individuals and institutions do not even notice race, then they cannot act in a biased manner on that basis. But according to a new article published by Evan Apfelbaum of the MIT Sloan School of Management and colleagues, efforts to ignore race can backfire.
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America Needs to Study Fractions
Scientific American: What part of math was most intimidating when you were in grade school? Maybe it was fractions. Or even worse, long-form division. Somehow splitting numbers really seemed complicated. And the U.S. might be paying for kids’ inability to overcome those early challenges: a new study finds that Americans are falling significantly behind in math aptitude compared with China, Finland, the Netherlands and Canada. And the root cause is deficiencies in knowledge of fractions and division. Nearly 600 children were tested once when they were 10 to 12 years old and again five years later.
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Parents Especially Dads Are Happier than their Childless Pals. (Happy Father’s Day.)
TIME: Consider it an early Father’s Day present, guys: your kids — yes, the ones who wake you up in the middle of the night and demand to be fed three meals a day — are actually making you really happy. Really. Being a parent, especially a dad, appears to confer greater levels of happiness, positive emotion and meaning than being childless, according to new research to be published in Psychological Science. “If you have a dinner party, are parents at that party happier than non-parents at that dinner party?” says Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor of psychology at University of California, Riverside, and the paper’s senior author.
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Männer mit harten Gesichtszügen sind Softies
Bild: Von wegen gefühlsarmer Macho! Männer mit herben, breiten Gesichtszügen haben oft ein weiches Wesen, viele sind sogar fürsorgliche Softies. Zu diesem Ergebnis kamen jetzt Psychologen der schottischen Universität St. Andrews. Demnach sind Männer mit einem groben, harten Erscheinungsbild eher bereit, ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse in den Hintergrund zu stellen, um Freunden und Kollegen zu helfen. Bisher wurde Männern mit breiten Gesichtern oft unterstellt, sie seien aggressiv und unehrlich. Außerdem galten sie als unkooperativ und kalt. So lief die Untersuchung: Die Wissenschaftler gaben Probanden Geld für ein Spiel.
