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Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program aims to equip troops mentally
Los Angeles Times: Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum found out what combat stress was in the back of a pickup during the first Gulf War in 1991 when one of her Iraqi captors unzipped her flight suit and, as she lay there with two broken arms and an injured eye, sexually assaulted her. The reed-thin Army physician, whose Black Hawk helicopter had been shot down, became a symbol of everything America was worried about in sending women to war. Her successful return home — sane and not that much the worse for her ordeal — became a powerful argument for the irrelevance of gender in conditions of indiscriminate violence.
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Aarti Iyer
University of Queensland, Australia http://www.psy.uq.edu.au/directory/index.html?id=1239 What does your research focus on? In one line of research, I investigate people’s emotional responses to inequality and injustice, and the ways in which these emotions predict distinct political attitudes and behaviors. I also study institutional efforts to address inequality (e.g. affirmative action), focusing on beneficiaries’ and non-beneficiaries’ emotional and political responses to these programs. In a third line of work, I examine the ways in which identity change processes shape people’s experiences of life transitions. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you?
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Yong He
National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, China http://psychbrain.bnu.edu.cn/teachcms/heyong.htm What does your research focus on? Much of my research focuses on the methodology and applications of the human brain connectome by using non-invasive neuroimaging techniques, including structural MRI, diffusion MRI and resting-state fMRI. Specifically, I am interested in (1) exploring the relation between brain structural and functional connectivity and personal behaviors, and (2) studying abnormal connectivity patterns in neurological and psychiatric diseases. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you?
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Karen Gonsalkorale
The University of Sydney, Australia http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/staff/kareng/ What does your research focus on? My research interests are in the areas of social cognition, intergroup relations, and stereotyping and prejudice. I’m currently exploring the ways in which people think about their social groups and how these cognitions influence intergroup relations. Other research focuses on intergroup biases that people may not personally endorse or even be aware of having. I’m interested in what causes these biases, whether people can control them, and how they influence behaviour toward members of other groups. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you?
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Hal E. Hershfield
Stern School of Business, New York University, USA http://people.stern.nyu.edu/hhershfi/ What does your research focus on? Broadly, I study the ways that thinking about time can transform the emotions people feel and alter the judgments and decisions that they make. Within this framework, I have carried out two related lines of research. First, I study the role that considerations of the future play in guiding emotional experience and directing decision-making. In this vein, I have studied how an awareness of imminent endings (a) gives rise to a mixture of happiness and sadness and (b) directs one’s attention and even one’s gaze toward positive information.
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How to function after a sleepless night
Men's Health: Every week a fresh tranche of research detailing the necessity of a solid eight hours sleep per night streams into the MH inbox. But at the end of the day (literally), getting your recommended quota of kip isn’t always possible. And sometimes, for reasons fun or foul, you can pass the whole night without a wink. So, when you need to be productive, but feel like a particularly decrepit zombie, what can you do to fire up your synapses and wring the best from your exhausted body? We have a remedy for every consequence of your stare-off with the sandman… Read the whole story: Men's Health
