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This Is Your Mind on Music – Insights From Psychological Science
Music is just sound - structured, organized sound. Yet it has surrounded us, moved us, and echoed in our memories throughout the history of our species. Three of the world's leading psychologists and neuroscientists in the study of music, and one of the world's leading musicians, will discuss the psychological systems and "orchestra of brain regions" through which music enriches our lives at the Association for Psychological Science’s 24th annual meeting in Chicago, May 24-27, 2012. Why Our Minds Groove to a Beat Whether it’s reggaeton, house, salsa, or bluegrass, one thing is clear: people love moving to the beat of music.
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How to Be a Better Test-Taker
The New York Times: THE REALITY Many capable, hard-working students perform poorly on exams because they’ve overtaxed their “working memory” — the mental scratchpad on which we combine information from our long-term memory with the specifics of the problem in front of us, in the service of finding a solution. THE PROBLEM “When students are anxious about how they’ll do on an exam,” says Sian Beilock, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, “their worries use up some of their working memory capacity, leaving less of this cognitive horsepower to apply to the task at hand.” HOW TO Dr.
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Sind Sie risikointelligent?
20 Minuten Online: Kritisch und gleichzeitig kreativ mit Risiken umzugehen - das wird von vielen, insbesondere von Menschen in höheren Positionen im Arbeitsalltag verlangt. Vielfach wähnen sich die Betroffenen während des Entscheidungsprozesses am Roulette-Tisch: Rot oder doch lieber schwarz, alles auf eine Karte oder auf Beständigkeit und Sicherheit setzen? Wie gut wir darin sind, Entscheidungen unter Risikoeinfluss zu treffen, liess sich bislang nur schwerlich bemessen. Herkömmliche Tests sind lediglich in der Lage, Hinweise über die Aufmerksamkeitskontrolle oder die Intelligenz eines Menschen zu liefern.
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When You’re Evil, the Whole World Looks Dark
The Wall Street Journal: Is it dark in here, or is it me? In the latest example of the study of “embodied cognition” — the notion that metaphors don’t just help us express abstract ideas but can also shape basic perception — researchers had 40 students recall and describe either an ethical or unethical deed from their past. On a 7-point scale, the students then judged the brightness of the room they were in. “As predicted, participants in the unethical condition judged the room to be darker than did participants in the ethical condition,” write the authors of the study, which is forthcoming in Psychological Science. Read the whole story: The Wall Street Journal
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Black Women Leaders Approved for Assertiveness in the Workplace
While black men and white women are often jeered for being assertive and aggressive leaders, black women are expected to adopt dominant leadership styles usually associated with white men.
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Is Psychology About to Come Undone?
The Chronicle of Higher Education: If you’re a psychologist, the news has to make you a little nervous—particularly if you’re a psychologist who published an article in 2008 in any of these three journals: Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, or the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Because, if you did, someone is going to check your work. A group of researchers have already begun what they’ve dubbed the Reproducibility Project, which aims to replicate every study from those three journals for that one year.
