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Boys Who Lack Empathy Don’t React to a Fearful Face
Scientific American: Psychopaths can't connect emotionally. Researchers have thought that trait may be connected with an outsized drive for reward and an inability to register fearful expressions in others’ faces. And that training them to pay attention to such expressions might help. Training, however, has not been successful, and a paper to be published in the journal Psychological Science suggests why. Read more: Scientific American
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Baby – I’m Taking you Around the World!
“Write a child-care manual for your society. Give Dr. Spock type advice about child care.” You might be rather confused as to what the above title might suggest. Well, it is an actual term paper assignment handed out by Judy S. DeLoache when she taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DeLoache, whose primary area of research is early cognitive development, asked her upper level undergraduate students to pick a traditional non-Western society and share their research about child caring beliefs and practices in that particular society.
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Older people not good liars
Otago Daily Times: A University of Otago study suggests the ability to recognise deceit may wear down with age, making older people less able to lie or recognise they are being lied to. University of Otago department of psychology researchers Ted Ruffman, Janice Murray and Jamin Halberstadt compared young and old adults' skills at deception as judged by listeners within and outside their age group. The results of the lie detection test showed both young and old listeners found it easier to differentiate truths and lies when the speaker was an older adult compared to a young adult, Associate Professor Halberstadt said. Read more: Otago Daily Times
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Assessing Propensity and Satisfaction as Predictors of Trust in Teamwork
My name is Nicole Thompson from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. The current study examines individuals’ propensities to and satisfactions in trust decisions when engaged in teamwork across multiple performance cycles. Findings showed satisfaction captured more variance in trust than propensity across all cycles. Poster Session II - Board: II- 076 Friday, May 27, 2011, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Columbia Hall Nicole J. Thompson Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Sarah F. Allgood Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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L’affetto dei nonni allunga la vita ai nipotini
Salute 24: Avere i nonni accanto fa vivere di più i nipoti: nelle famiglie in cui sono presenti più generazioni, infatti, anche in situazioni difficili la possibilità di sopravvivenza dei più piccoli è maggiore. È quanto emerge da uno studio pubblicato su Current Directions in Psychological Science dal team guidato da David A. Coall, ricercatore della Edith Cowan University di Perth (Australia). Read more: Salute 24
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Why we perceive death differently
Times of India: European-Americans get worried and try to protect their sense of self, while Asian Americans are more likely to reach out to others. Much of the research on what psychologists call "mortality salience" – thinking about death – has been done on people of European descent, and has found that it makes people act in dramatic ways. "Men become more wary of sexy women and they like wholesome women more. People like to stereotype more. You see all these strange and bizarre occurrences when people think about the fact that they aren't going to live forever," said Christine Ma-Kellams of the University of California Santa Barbara, who carried out the research with Jim Blascovich.
