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Desktop Diaries: Daniel Kahneman
NPR: Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is the latest subject in our Desktop Diaries series, although he has no desk. Kahneman, professor emeritus at Princeton University, won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2002 for his research with the late Amos Tversky on our sometimes irrational intuitions and how they affect decision-making. Read the whole story: NPR See Daniel Kahneman at the 25th APS Annual Convention.
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation
The Atlantic: Millennials are the "ME ME ME GENERATION," writes Joel Stein for the cover of Time magazine, which is apparently a marked departure from the Baby Boomers, who were the plain old "Me Generation" (one me, no caps) and who created the "Me Decade" in the 1970s, and who coined the phrase, "But enough about me… what do you think about me?" in the 1980s when they were raising the next narcissists, Generation X.
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Trauma Survivors Deserve Therapy That Actually Works
The Huffington Post: The mind-boggling events of the past month -- the Boston Marathon bombings, the fertilizer plant explosion near Waco, a deadly collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh -- will undoubtedly leave in their wake a host of survivors suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Many victims will get over the short-term trauma of those events, but others -- in the coming weeks and months --will begin experiencing the chronic bad dreams, flashbacks, sleep difficulties, and frightening thoughts that characterize PTSD. Those individuals will likely avoid places, events or objects that remind them of the experience.
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Psychologie: Druck kann leistungssteigernd wirken (pressure can help improve performance)
Der Spiegel: Der Druck, mehrere Aufgaben gleichzeitig erledigen zu müssen, kann unter bestimmten Bedingungen die Leistung steigern. Das haben Forscher der Universität Basel herausgefunden. Der Grund dafür ist, dass Berufstätige unter Druck ihre Arbeitsweise wechseln. Sie entscheiden eher mit Hilfe von Ähnlichkeitsstrategien als anhand von Regeln. Muss ein Arzt in einem Krankenhaus etwa anhand von Symptomen bei einem Patienten eine Diagnose stellen, greift er unter Druck eher auf seinen Erfahrungsschatz zurück und zieht Parallelen zu ähnlichen Fällen.
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Study Shows How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages
Individuals who learn two languages at an early age seem to switch back and forth between separate "sound systems" for each language, according to new research conducted at the University of Arizona. The research, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, addresses enduring questions in bilingual studies about how bilingual speakers hear and process sound in two different languages.
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Study: Men’s Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies
The Atlantic: The pre-societal, animal model of conflict resolution is simple, brutal, and effective. Leaving aside political gambles, moral considerations, and the like, the strong are more willing to fight for their self-interest, while the weak find it more advantageous not to assert themselves. Extrapolated to a fairly simple conflict of interest -- wealth redistribution -- do modern humans operate under the same logic? Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and UC Santa Barbara collected from several hundred men and women in Argentina, the U.S., and Denmark.
