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Av en bok blir du klok
Helsingborgs Dagblad: En mässa för böcker och bibliotek är förstås en god sak. Tycker vi. Men på vilka grunder? Föreställningen att läsning i allmänhet, och skönlitteratur i synnerhet, gör oss till bättre människor är närmast att betrakta som en doktrin bland intellektuella. Den ilska och oro som utbryter varje gång en biblioteksfilial läggs ned eller när det rapporteras att barn läser mindre, bestörtningen när höga politiker förråder sin likgiltighet inför skönlitteratur, beklämningen när idrottsstjärnan himlar med ögonen och flinar åt frågan vilken bok de läste senast … allt bottnar i samma grundmurade uppfattning.
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‘Cheating’ Study Claims Men Resent Sexual Infidelity, Women Jealous Of Shared Love
The Huffington Post: How would you react if you found out that your partner had cheated? Would the emotional betrayal outweigh the physical one, or would the sexual infidelity hurt more than the undermining of your love? A new study says that the answer might have a lot to do with your gender. According to evolutionary psychologist Barry Kuhle's recent study, which was published in Personality and Individual Differences, while men are more likely to interrogate their partners about the sexual nature of an affair, a woman will often ask her partner whether he is in love with the other woman. How did Kuhle discover which aspect of infidelity bothered men and women most?
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Evitar los cambios bruscos de temperatura y seguir hábitos saludables es clave para prevenir catarros otoñales
Qué: En septiembre comienzan a bajar las temperaturas por lo que los expertos recomiendan evitar corrientes de aire y empezar a protegerse del frío por las mañanas y por las noches para esquivar los catarros típicos del otoño. "Para prevenir los catarros basta con evitar cambios bruscos de temperatura, protegerse del frío, no fumar, seguir una alimentación sana y variada y realizar ejercicio físico", recomienda el médico de familia y miembro de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria (SEMFyC), Francisco Camaralles. En opinión del experto, es importante distinguir entre el catarro y la gripe.
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How Not to Cope With Personal Insult
The Huffington Post: Humans have always had to cope with threats, both big and small. The physical and life-threatening threats that our ancestors faced have largely been replaced by social threats, but they are nonetheless an emotional menace. Insults, rejections and criticism can undermine our integrity and self-esteem. Sometimes we cope with these threats smoothly, and other times awkwardly -- sometimes disastrously. Is there a single, most effective strategy for dealing with life's constant battering?
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OppNet Request for Applications for Three-year Research Projects: Basic Research on Decision Making(R01)
OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network, released a new RFA for three-year research projects: Basic research on decision making: Cognitive, affective, and developmental perspectives (R01). Basic research on decision making: Cognitive, affective, and developmental perspectives (R01) Deadlines Letter of intent: December 18, 2011 Application: January 18, 2012 This OppNet Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages research grant applications that propose to increase understanding of the basic cognitive, affective, motivational, and social processes that underlie decision making across the lifespan.
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When feeling good isn’t good enough: Self-control, not self-esteem, is the key to success
New York Daily News: Psychology has identified two different prescriptions for how to solve the personal problems that people face today: self-esteem and self-control. Both have been touted as ways to reduce crime, obesity, school underachievement, teen pregnancy, drug abuse and domestic violence. After conducting dozens of studies and reading hundreds of others, I have concluded that one prescription is snake oil while the other is as close to penicillin as psychology is going to get. Here's my takeaway: Forget bolstering self-esteem. Concentrate on building self-control. Self-control is good for the person who has it, for the people around him or her and, in fact, for society as a whole.
