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Understanding and Promoting Mental Health – Insights From Psychological Science
Thanks to advances in many areas of psychological science, from addiction to zoophobia, scientists can evaluate existing treatments for mental health issues, design new and better approaches to intervention, and discover which biological factors promote mental health. Scientists will discuss the current state and future questions in clinical psychological science at the Association for Psychological Science’s 24th annual meeting in Chicago, May 24-27, 2012. News Items Facial Behavior in Diverse Contexts: Emotion, Deception, and Psychopathology What’s in a face?
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This Is Your Mind on Music – Insights From Psychological Science
Music is just sound - structured, organized sound. Yet it has surrounded us, moved us, and echoed in our memories throughout the history of our species. Three of the world's leading psychologists and neuroscientists in the study of music, and one of the world's leading musicians, will discuss the psychological systems and "orchestra of brain regions" through which music enriches our lives at the Association for Psychological Science’s 24th annual meeting in Chicago, May 24-27, 2012. Why Our Minds Groove to a Beat Whether it’s reggaeton, house, salsa, or bluegrass, one thing is clear: people love moving to the beat of music.
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When You’re Evil, the Whole World Looks Dark
The Wall Street Journal: Is it dark in here, or is it me? In the latest example of the study of “embodied cognition” — the notion that metaphors don’t just help us express abstract ideas but can also shape basic perception — researchers had 40 students recall and describe either an ethical or unethical deed from their past. On a 7-point scale, the students then judged the brightness of the room they were in. “As predicted, participants in the unethical condition judged the room to be darker than did participants in the ethical condition,” write the authors of the study, which is forthcoming in Psychological Science. Read the whole story: The Wall Street Journal
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Gender Roles in the Workplace — Who Wins Praise for Assertiveness?
Research studying the effects of agentic behavior on women has focused almost exclusively on White women, with few studies examining the effect on Black females. A recent study by Livingston, Rosette, and Washington aims to fill this gap in the literature. The scientists found that Black women get social approval for being assertive and aggressive leaders. But the researchers suggest that Black women may face additional barriers to advancement, and that more research is needed to better understand the complex interaction of gender, race, and the workplace.
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Black Women Leaders Approved for Assertiveness in the Workplace
While black men and white women are often jeered for being assertive and aggressive leaders, black women are expected to adopt dominant leadership styles usually associated with white men.
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Is Psychology About to Come Undone?
The Chronicle of Higher Education: If you’re a psychologist, the news has to make you a little nervous—particularly if you’re a psychologist who published an article in 2008 in any of these three journals: Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, or the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Because, if you did, someone is going to check your work. A group of researchers have already begun what they’ve dubbed the Reproducibility Project, which aims to replicate every study from those three journals for that one year.