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The Worst Part of Keeping a Secret
The Atlantic: The average person is keeping 13 secrets right now. Five of them are secrets they’ve never told another living soul. These stats come from a new paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which looked at more than 13,000 secrets over 10 different studies. The researchers asked participants if they were keeping any of 38 different common categories of secrets which ranged from infidelity to financial secrets to secret hobbies. The most common secrets that people shared with no one else were: extra-relational thoughts (thinking something romantic or sexual about someone other than your partner), romantic desire, sexual behavior, and lies. ...
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How Not to Step on That Banana Peel
The Wall Street Journal: Growing up in Manhattan in the 1940s and ’50s, I climbed the Palisades across the Hudson, rode between subway cars, took 15- and 20-mile bike rides along busy highways, bodysurfed the breakers at Long Beach in the summers, played hardball on lumpy playgrounds with my glasses on, swam in pools during polio season, flicked my switchblade, set off cherry bombs and had BB guns fired at me. And I never suffered more than a scuffed knee and a cut lip.
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Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool
A study examining the cost-effectiveness of nudges and typical policy interventions shows that nudges often yield high returns at a low cost.
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McKee Presents Research on ADHD
Hamilton: ssociate Professor of Psychology Tara McKee presented a poster at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston on May 26. The poster, titled “Socio-Emotional and Academic Correlates of ADHD Symptomatology Across Four Years of College,” was co-authored with Kyndal Burdin ’18 and Isabel O’Malley ’18.
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10,000 New Yorkers. 2 Decades. A Data Trove About ‘Everything.’
The New York Times: Your phone, in all likelihood, knows more about you than your doctor. Your credit card company knows your likes and dislikes better than your closest friend. Google knows your thoughts, and even completes your sentences. Your telephone service provider knows where you are at all times. Facebook, for many, knows more than the rest combined. But Paul W. Glimcher, a neuro-economist at New York University, looks at all that data and sees a “train wreck.” For all of Silicon Valley’s cheerleading of “big data,” Mr. Glimcher said it had yet to be used to effectively solve some of society’s most vexing problems.
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Racial ‘disparity’ in police respect
BBC: Scientists developed a way to measure levels of respect, based on the officers' language during routine traffic stops in Oakland City. The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It aims to use bodycam footage to help improve police-community relations. While bodycam footage has been used as evidence in criminal cases - including some where complaints have been made against police - the aim of this study was to turn this continuously gathered footage into data and use that to track and improve everyday policing.
