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Newcombe Awarded Rumelhart Prize in Cognitive Science
APS William James Fellow Nora S. Newcombe, a distinguished researcher at Temple University and Editor of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, is the recipient of the 25th David E. Rumelhart Prize in Cognitive Science from the Cognitive Science Society.
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Confidence Is Key to Well-being. Here Are 5 Ways to Boost Yours
Everyone has encountered them: people who always appear to know what they are doing. They gladly take control of a situation, express their opinions as if they were established facts or plunge into a project believing they are going to succeed — with or without the required experience. “Confidence — it is probably the most important resource in human well-being and human performance, I believe,” neuroscientist and psychologist Ian Robertson told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently on his podcast Chasing Life. Robertson is a professor emeritus of psychology and the codirector of the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and the T.
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Can Money Buy Happiness? 5 Tips to Turn Bucks Into Bliss
Can money buy happiness? It’s an age-old question with which many — including philosophers, economists and psychologists — have wrestled. ... “This notion that money cannot buy happiness is just, like, patently false,” social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn recently told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on his podcast Chasing Life. Dunn, a professor in the department of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Canada, conducts research that focuses, in part, on getting the most enjoyment out of money.
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Unhappy at Work? How to Plan Your Next Move
To find a job you actually enjoy, figure out what's making you unhappy and move forward from there, says Tessa West, author of the new book Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You. West offers practical exercises to help assess your strongest skill sets, your stressors and what you need next from your career. ... SEGARRA: I wonder if you've ever had a moment like this. You're brushing your teeth or driving your car or riding the subway, getting ready for work, and you think, what am I doing? I hate this job. Is this what I signed up for? TESSA WEST: It's a little like looking over at your spouse in bed and thinking, who are you? You aren't the person I married.
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Social Prescribing: Why Purpose Is Good for Your Health
In a bid to improve health and wellbeing, social prescriptions can cover everything from volunteering and art classes to support with household bills. But do they really work? ... Perhaps counterintuitively, prescribing "service" is proving to be one particularly effective form. Early studies have shown that those in nursing homes who are given choices and responsibilities to serve their surrounding environment (such as taking care of a houseplant) can thrive more than those who are simply there to be taken care of, not to do the caring.
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A New Development in the Debate About Instagram and Teens
The teens are on Instagram. That much is obvious. A majority of teens say they use the app, including 8 percent who say they use it “almost constantly,” according to the Pew Research Center. And yet a lot is still unknown about what such extensive use might do to kids. Many people believe that it and other social-media apps are contributing to a teen mental-health crisis. ... Candice Odgers, a psychologist at UC Irvine who studies the effects of technology on adolescent mental health and has written on the subject for The Atlantic, said the pilot program is a decent, if limited, first step.
