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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
The Atlantic: Despite its immense popularity, or more likely because of it, Facebook has, from the beginning, been under something of a cloud of suspicion. The depiction of Mark Zuckerberg, in The Social Network, as a bastard with symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome, was nonsense. But it felt true. It felt true to Facebook, if not to Zuckerberg. The film’s most indelible scene, the one that may well have earned it an Oscar, was the final, silent shot of an anomic Zuckerberg sending out a friend request to his ex-girlfriend, then waiting and clicking and waiting and clicking—a moment of superconnected loneliness preserved in amber.
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Does Being Black Make Leadership Easier For Women?
Forbes: Black women in leadership roles are judged less harshly for behaving assertively than are white women or black men, says a new study by three academics. The researchers asked 84 online participants (none black; 64% women) to evaluate a written description of a fictional supervisor who gave a negative performance review to an employee.
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Crew Schedules, Sleep Deprivation, and Aviation Performance
Night-time departures, early morning arrivals, and adjusting to several time zones in a matter of days can rattle circadian rhythms, compromise attention and challenge vigilance. And yet, these are the very conditions many pilots face
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Do anti-tobacco ads work? Ask a ‘neural focus group’
While watching TV this weekend, I happened on a gruesomely powerful anti-smoking advertisement. It featured former smokers who were missing body parts—a woman with missing fingers and a handsome young man with two prosthetic devices where his lower legs used to be. Both talked matter-of-factly about their permanent disabilities, which were direct consequences of their long-time cigarette habits. This ad is part of a new, $54 million campaign by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the most ambitious and starkest anti-tobacco campaign ever undertaken by the government. Other ads in the campaign show ex-smokers who have had their larynx removed, or a jaw or a lung.
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That Impulsive, Moody Preschooler May Grow Up to Be a Problem Gambler
Give me the child at 3 and I will give you the adult compulsive gambler. That is the striking finding of a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. Based on tests of over 900 individuals beginning in toddlerhood, the study found that “people who were rated at age three as being more restless, inattentive, oppositional, and moody than other three-year old children were twice as likely to grow up to have problems with gambling as adults three decades later,” says psychologist Wendy S. Slutske of University of Missouri, who conducted the study with Terrie E.
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Does being needy in a relationship make you feel colder?
Yahoo! Canada: The next time you reach for that warm sweater, or pine for some hot comfort food, you might wonder whether you suffer from attachment anxiety. In a report called "Warm Thoughts: Attachment Anxiety and Sensitivity to Temperature Cues," published in Psychological Science, Ohio University psychology professor Matthew Vess, shows how people with attachment issues are especially sensitive to temperature cues. In the first of two studies outlined in the report, a group of 56 people tested to measure their levels of anxiety in relationships.
