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If you want your kid to get a good job, let them play more
Fears about automation displacing workers around the world ranked high on the list of Things to Be Very Worried About at the World Economic Forum in January. “At the end of the day, we have to fire a lot of people,” said Ursula Burns, chairman of the supervisory board at telecom group VEON, and former CEO of Xerox—which, indeed, recently had to fire a lot of people. Most of the remedies on offer were the usual high-level suggestions: re-train workers, offer some kind of universal basic income, design a “new social contract” that requires companies to factor in the needs of workers along with maximizing shareholder value.
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In a Fight Against Depression, UCLA Relies on Technology
In what amounts to a research moonshot, the University of California at Los Angeles aims to "cut the burden of depression in half" by 2050 and to eliminate it by the end of the century. But before the university starts treating the world, it’s begun treating its own students. In a study conducted since last year as part of the Depression Grand Challenge — an interdisciplinary research project that adopts the popular "grand challenge" format to solve major social or scientific problems — UCLA researchers have used an online program to measure the anxiety and depression levels of nearly 4,000 students.
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John T. Cacioppo, scientist of loneliness who expanded psychology’s reach, dies at 66
John T. Cacioppo, whose research into human bonds and connections expanded the horizons of psychology, generating an entirely new discipline — social neuroscience — and key insights into loneliness, died March 5 at his home in Chicago. He was 66. The cause was not immediately known, said his wife, Stephanie Cacioppo, a fellow University of Chicago scholar with whom he shared an office desk and strikingly divergent research interests. While he studied loneliness, examining its neural, hormonal, cellular and genetic roots, she studied love and its effects on human health. An unlikely academic who became the first member of his family to graduate from college, Dr.
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Adults’ Political Leanings Linked With Early Personality Traits
Data from 16,000 individuals in the UK reveal links between early conduct problems and economic and political discontent 25 years later.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring hormones and externalizing behavior in adolescents, source information and working memory, language exposure and brain development, and the gender-equality paradox in STEM.
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The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases
Are you racist? It's a question that makes most of us uncomfortable and defensive. Harvard University psychologist Mahzarin Banaji says while most people don't feel they're racist, they likely carry unfavorable opinions about people of color — even if they are people of color themselves. Banaji is one of the creators of the Implicit Association Test, a widely-used tool for measuring a person's implicit biases. She says it's important to acknowledge that the individual mind sits in society.
