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UA study: Divorce can raise risk of early death
USA Today: Be careful. Your health could plummet as if you had taken up smoking, become overweight or started drinking excessively. A new review by the University of Arizona of more than 30 published studies found divorced adults have a significantly higher risk of early death compared with married adults. The risk of dying early was 23 percent greater among divorced adults than married couples tracked by researchers for an average of 11 years.
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Transitions, Controlling Your Narrative
WHYY Radio: What do you want for your life? Many of us choose one path, then want another. Perhaps something that's more creative, altruistic, or legacy making. Making this switch can be scary and complex; but by digging deeply, we can gain clarity and confidence -- and ultimately a new purpose. On the next Voices in the Family with Dan Gottlieb: transitioning...seriously looking at what's next at any stage in life. Dan will be joined by Jonathan Adler, Ph.D., Nancy Schlossberg, Ph.D., and Vicki Solot. Listen to the story: WHYY Radio
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Kinder mit geringerem IQ neigen später eher zum Rassismus
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Die Einstellungen eines Menschen lassen sich bereits im Kindesalter vorhersagen. Wer als Zehnjähriger in Intelligenztests schlecht abschneidet, pflegt als Erwachsener eher rassistische Vorurteile, berichten Psychologen um Gordon Hodson von der Brock University in Kanada (Psychological Science, online). Rechts-konservative politische Anschauungen spielten dabei die Rolle als Katalysator, argumentieren die Psychologen: Menschen mit geringeren kognitiven Fähigkeiten neigten eher politischen Meinungen vom rechten Rand zu, "weil diese Stabilität und Ordnung im psychologischen Sinne bieten".
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Positive shrinking: Writing about the things that mean most can help us lose weight
Daily Mail: The secret to slimming could be as simple as picking up a pen and writing. In a remarkable indication of the potential power of positive thinking in dieting, researchers found that women who wrote about what meant most to them each day lost significantly more weight than those who didn’t. A study by America’s Stanford University and Renison University College in Canada recruited 45 undergraduates, none of who were thin and about 60 per cent of them technically overweight or obese. Read the full story: Daily Mail
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Who’s Wealthy? Beyond Net Worth, Asset and Debt Levels Change Our Perceptions
Will borrowing money to buy a new car make you feel richer? It depends on your net worth, says a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. “People’s perceptions of wealth vary not only as a function of their net worth, but also of the amount of assets and debt they have,” says Princeton University psychology graduate student Abigail B. Sussman, who wrote the study with Princeton professor Eldar Shafir. In fact, increasing your assets by taking on debt affects perceived wealth in opposite ways for people who are in the red (their debt outweighs their assets), or in the black (their assets outweigh their debt).
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Study finds drunken people aware of poor decisions
Toronto Star: A new study says that people who commit blunders while under the influence of alcohol know they’re doing it; they just don’t care. This means buzzed or drunken people who engage in embarrassing or harmful behaviour can’t blame it on not having control, said researcher Bruce Bartholow, associate professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. While this isn’t the first study that shows alcohol alters the behaviour of those who consume it, “it’s the first to show they don’t care that they’re making mistakes,” said Bartholow, chief researcher on the study. Read the full story: Toronto Star
