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Why some stay-at-home mothers choose to opt out of the workplace
Journal and Courier - Lafayette: Valerie Wininger recently left her full-time job as a Web master in the entomology department at Purdue University to become a stay-at-home mom. Now, she is caring for her three children, Brianna, 8, Eli, 5, and 11-month-old Fiona. "Financially, it was almost not even worth it for me to work with day care costs and everything," the 30-year-old said. "I got so few hours in the day with them, and it was always so stressful and chaotic." Wininger felt like her decision to leave work and stay at home full-time was her choice, she said. "I'm very happy," she said. "There are days that are hard, but mostly I just love it.
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Saber el final no arruina la historia
BBC Mundo: Saber el final de un libro, o de una narración (spoilers, en inglés), no sólo no arruina el placer de la historia, sino que puede contribuir a intensificarlo, afirma un estudio llevado a cabo en la Universidad de California San Diego, Estados Unidos. No hay lector de novela policial que no tema que el lugar común de "el asesino es el mayordomo" le venga a echar a perder las horas consagradas a Mickey Spillaine o Agatha Christie. Read more: BBC Mundo
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Money can’t buy generosity, study finds
Calgary Herald: Turns out the rich really are different. But not necessarily in the ways we assume. Though economically privileged, people from upper-class backgrounds consistently display deficits in empathy, social engagement, generosity and sensitivity as compared to those from the lower classes. The differences in behaviour are so marked, in fact, that naive observers are able to detect a person's socioeconomic background based on 60 seconds of interaction. The findings, published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, have researchers concluding that wealth comes at considerable personal cost - and that being poor isn't without its wages.
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Frauen sind anders mutig als Männer
Berliner Morgenpost: Frauen sind nicht grundsätzlich weniger risikofreudig als Männer, wie eine Studie der Columbia Business School in New York zeigt. So seien sie zum Beispiel eher bereit als Männer, auch noch mit Mitte 30 eine neue berufliche Karriere zu starten. Auch sprächen sie eher als Männer bei geschäftlichen Treffen unangenehme Themen an, erklären die Forscher um die Sozialwissenschaftler Elke Weber und Bernd Figner im Fachblatt "Current Directions in Psychological Science". Männer sind demgegenüber risikobereiter, was Finanzfragen betrifft. Lesen Sie mehr/Read the whole story: Berliner Morgenpost
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Yes, love really IS blind! Rose-tinted glasses aren’t just for foolish romantics – they’re the key to lasting bliss, say scientists
Daily Mail: When my friend Emma invited me to meet her new boyfriend, Jerry, I was keen, but a bit intimidated. For weeks, she’d been going on about him. I knew all about his brilliant legal career, wit and, most of all, physique. As far as Emma was concerned, he was Brad Pitt with a brilliant brain. So when they walked in together, my jaw dropped — because he was so short that he barely came up to her waist. There is something irritating about the utter blindness of a man or woman in love. It takes a will of steel not to snigger as your friend rhapsodises about her Prince Charming who, to the eyes of the rest of the world, is all too clearly a frog.
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Spoilers ‘do not ruin stories’, study says
BBC: Knowing how a book ends does not ruin its story and can actually enhance enjoyment, a study suggests. Researchers at the University of California San Diego gave participants 12 short stories where two versions were spoiled and a third unspoiled. In all but one story, readers said they preferred versions which had spoiling paragraphs written into it. Although the study could not explain why, it suggested the brain may find it easier to process a spoiled story. "You get this significant reverse-spoiler effect," study author and professor of social psychology Nicholas Christenfeld said.
