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Intelligenz und Erbgut (Intelligence and Genes)
Süeddeutsche Zeitung: Die Bedeutung einzelner Genabschnitte für den IQ wird überschätzt Wie erblich ist Intelligenz? Diese Frage treibt Wissenschaftler seit vielen Jahrzehnten um. Zuletzt tauchten oft simple Antworten auf diese komplexe Frage auf. Dieser oder jener Baustein im Genom eines Menschen übe einen starken Einfluss auf dessen generelle Intelligenz aus, heißt es in einzelnen Studien. Ein internationales Team von Psychologen um Christopher Chabris vom New Yorker Union College weist diese Aussagen nun zurück. Die Forscher überprüften die Auswirkungen von zwölf DNA-Bausteinen auf den IQ, die in Studien bislang als relevant galten.
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Investigadores completan una definición precisa sobre el aburrimiento (a precise definition of boredom)
ABC España: Investigadores canadienses han conseguido un nuevo estudio que revela con mayor precisión el proceso mental que produce el aburrimeinto. Según una nota de prensa de la Universidad de Guelph, muchas personas ven el aburrimiento como una cuestión trivial y temporal, pero en realidad está vinculado con problemas psicológicos, sociales y de salud. Esto lo explica el profesor de psicología Mark Fense, uno de los autores principales del estudio Perspectives on Psychological Science publicado por la Asociación para las ciencias de la psicología. El aburrimiento en el trabajo puede conducir a graves accidemtes.
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Looking Out for #1 Can Make You Happy, If You Have No Choice
We are, at our core, social creatures and we spend considerable time and effort on building and maintaining our relationships with others. As young children, we’re taught that “sharing means caring” and, as we mature, we learn to take others’ point of view. If we make a decision that favors self-interest, we often feel guilt for prioritizing ourselves over others. In prioritizing others, however, we sometimes forego the things that we know will make us happy. This raises an intriguing question: Is there any way to pursue self-interest without feeling bad about it? Can we have the proverbial cake and it eat it, too?
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Testing Can Be Useful for Students and Teachers, Promoting Long-Term Learning
Pop quiz! Tests are good for: (a) Assessing what you’ve learned; (b) Learning new information; (c) a & b; (d) None of the above. The correct answer? According to research from psychological science, it’s both (a) and (b) – while testing can be useful as an assessment tool, the actual process of taking a test can also help us to learn and retain new information over the long term and apply it across different contexts. New research published in journals of the Association for Psychological Science explores the nuanced interactions between testing, memory, and learning and suggests possible applications for testing in educational settings.
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Därför skrattar vi åt hemska saker (That’s why we laugh at terrible things)
Sveriges Television: Humorns beståndsdelar Kan man skämta om vad som helst? Den frågan har komiker ställt sig i alla tider. Nu visar ny forskning att det funkar att gå över gränsen. Men bara lite. Komikern Özz Nujen vet hur det känns att ta ett skämt för långt. - Det har jag gjort tusentals gånger. Men det värsta var nog när jag skämtade om elfte september i New York. Jag berättade att en av mina släktingar dog i attacken. När jag sen sa att det var han som körde planet då blev det knäpptyst. - Och mitt skämt om att man inte direkt ställde sig upp och gjorde vågen efter tsunamikatastrofen gick inte heller hem hos alla.
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The Unexpected Impact of Coded Appeals
The New York Times: After signing into law the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously told an aide, “we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come.” Indeed, the Johnson-Goldwater contest was notable in two important respects related to race: it featured the first appearance in almost a century of racial animus as a central dimension of partisan conflict in a presidential election, and it was the last time a Democrat received a majority of the white vote. Attention to matters of race has surged in recent weeks with the appearance of a pair of purportedly race-coded ads.
