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Psychopathy Conference: Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychopathy
The Psychopathy Conference will be held May 3, 2012 at Congress Centre London. For more information visit http://www.medineo.org/products/24-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-psychopathy.aspx.
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Notre carte intérieure est orientée vers le nord
Yahoo France: Les géographes occidentaux ont finalement bien raison d'orienter leur carte routière ou touristique en faisant correspondre le haut de ces cartes avec le nord. En tout cas, ce choix s'est ancré dans notre cerveau, au point de nous permettre de ne pas nous perdre, comme l'a constaté une équipe allemande de l'Institut Max-Planck de Tübingen dans la revue Psychological Science mise en ligne le 29 décembre. Read the whole story: Yahoo France
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Decisions: We’re maxed out say Montreal researchers
The Montreal Gazette: One has to wonder whether Liberal MP Justin Trudeau might have been suffering from a bout of decision fatigue when he launched an s-bomb on Environment Minister Peter Kent during Question Period in mid-December. Parliament was in its final days of a five-week session and Trudeau had recently been under attack for his views on abortion and the long-gun registry. The mental work of parliamentarians can wear them down, leading to slip-ups in self-control. It's a form of mental distress recently labeled by psychologists as decision fatigue.
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Good Reason to Dwell on What Might Have Been
Don’t beat yourself up for daydreaming about what would have happened if you’d chosen a different career, bought a different house, or committed to a different partner. Research suggests that thinking about what might have been helps us find meaning in past events we can no longer change. Laura Kray of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley is an expert in counterfactual research. In this clip from the Haas School, Kray discusses some of the research she will present at the 24th APS Annual Convention. In one experiment, Kray and her coauthors asked participants to write about a turning point in their lives.
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Early Diagnosis and Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Geraldine Dawson’s research has contributed greatly to the growing body of evidence about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), especially in young children. Dawson has approached ASD from all angles, from conducting studies of early brain and behavioral development to genetic research. She pioneered the use of event-related potentials to study early brain function in very young children with ASD. Her main focus, however, lies in early diagnosis and intervention. She was one of the first researchers to demonstrate that autism symptoms could be recognized in young infants.
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Yes, It Is Possible To Be Happy With Spending Less
Business Insider: Increased consumer spending has become an obsession with the economic-recovery crowd. Such spending accounts for 70 percent of the U.S. economy, as measured by the gross domestic product, or GDP. Therefore, the thinking goes, consumer spending must rise if the economy and stubbornly high unemployment rate are to recover. Some pundits even muse about consumer spending being a particularly American form of patriotism. Read the whole story: Business Insider
