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Police photo lineups challenged after series of wrongful convictions
Rock Center with Brian Williams: Ruby Session’s guests filed in slowly, clasping each other in warm, familiar embraces. Many, who were there to attend her 75th birthday, shared a harrowing history both with each other and the woman they had come to celebrate. “She didn’t adopt us. We adopted her,” said Christopher Scott, who spent 13 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
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Post-Prozac Nation: The Science and History of Treating Depression
The New York Times: Few medicines, in the history of pharmaceuticals, have been greeted with as much exultation as a green-and-white pill containing 20 milligrams of fluoxetine hydrochloride — the chemical we know as Prozac. In her 1994 book “Prozac Nation,” Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote of a nearly transcendental experience on the drug. Before she began treatment with antidepressants, she was living in “a computer program of total negativity . . . an absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest.” She floated from one “suicidal reverie” to the next. Yet, just a few weeks after starting Prozac, her life was transformed.
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Using a Foreign Language Helps Decision-Making
If you think that decisions are based only on the evidence presented, think again. In fact, think about the question in a different language, assessing the risks inherent in making decisions. Your reactions may be surprising. In a study that appears in the current issue of Psychological Science, a publication of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers at the University of Chicago have found that people make more analytic decisions when they think through a problem in their non-native tongue. These findings have implications in many arenas but especially for people doing business in a global economy.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Names New Members
Congratulations to eleven APS members who were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Shari Seidman Diamond Northwestern University Edward Francis Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alice Hendrickson Eagly Northwestern University Thomas D. Gilovich Cornell University Shinobu Kitayama University of Michigan Kathleen McCartney Harvard Graduate School of Education Elizabeth Phelps New York University Robert M. Seyfarth University of Pennsylvania Yaacov Trope New York University Henry M. Wellman University of Michigan Luigi Zingales University of Chicago
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Crew Schedules, Sleep Deprivation, and Aviation Performance
Night-time departures, early morning arrivals, and adjusting to several time zones in a matter of days can rattle circadian rhythms, compromise attention and challenge vigilance. And yet, these are the very conditions many pilots face
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That Impulsive, Moody Preschooler May Grow Up to Be a Problem Gambler
Give me the child at 3 and I will give you the adult compulsive gambler. That is the striking finding of a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. Based on tests of over 900 individuals beginning in toddlerhood, the study found that “people who were rated at age three as being more restless, inattentive, oppositional, and moody than other three-year old children were twice as likely to grow up to have problems with gambling as adults three decades later,” says psychologist Wendy S. Slutske of University of Missouri, who conducted the study with Terrie E.
