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Age and Cultural Differences in Discrimination of Emotion
My name is Dave Forman from Morehead State University, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC.
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Praise Is Fleeting, but Brickbats We Recall
The New York Times: MY sisters and I have often marveled that the stories we tell over and over about our childhood tend to focus on what went wrong. We talk about the time my older sister got her finger crushed by a train door on a trip in Scandinavia. We recount the time we almost missed the plane to Israel because my younger sister lost her stuffed animal in the airport terminal. Since, fortunately, we’ve had many more pleasant experiences than unhappy ones, I assumed that we were unusual in zeroing in on our negative experiences. But it turns out we’re typical. “This is a general tendency for everyone,” said Clifford Nass, a professor of communication at Stanford University.
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Facebook May Not Be So Friendly For Those With Low Self-Esteem
NPR: Posting on Facebook is an easy way to connect with people, but it also can be a means to alienate them. That can be particularly troublesome for those with low self-esteem. People with poor self-image tend to view the glass as half empty. They complain a bit more than everyone else, and they often share their negative views and feelings when face to face with friends and acquaintances. Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, wondered whether those behavior patterns would hold true online. They published their findings in the journal Psychological Science.
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Lo que una persona piense de su enfermedad influye en cuánto se puede curar, o no
Yahoo! Noticias: Lo que una persona piensa de su enfermedad afecta la evolución de la patología, al punto que puede determinar la curación y como queda su estado de salud. Polémica, si se tiene en cuenta que no todas las enfermedades tienen un origen psicosomático, es la conclusión a la que llegaron los psicólogos Keith Petrie de la Universidad de Auckland (Australia) y John Weinman del King's College de Londres (Reino Unido). Es que ellos aseguran haber hallado en sus investigaciones que la percepción que tienen las personas de su propia enfermedad afecta muchas decisiones, como por ejemplo si van a seguir el tratamiento asignado por su médico.
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Winning Streak, Really?
Peter Ayton studies our judgment and decision making processes, especially where those processes often go wrong. He has investigated judgment errors like the hot-hand fallacy, in which people tend to expect that recent positive successes within a random sequence will continue—like a basketball player on a “hot” shooting streak—and the related gambler’s fallacy, in which people expect that such a positive or negative streak will eventually be balanced out.
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Imaging study reveals differences in brain function for children with math anxiety
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time how brain function differs in people who have math anxiety from those who don’t. A series of scans conducted while second- and third-grade students did addition and subtraction revealed that those who feel panicky about doing math had increased activity in brain regions associated with fear, which caused decreased activity in parts of the brain involved in problem-solving.