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America Needs More Geeks: How to Make Science Cool
TIME: A white lab coat. An unsmiling expression. Thick glasses and unkempt hair. In one hand, a device replete with dials and gauges; in the other, a beaker bubbling over with a toxic-looking liquid. This image, which owes more to the movies than to the laboratory, is nevertheless what many students think of when they hear the word “scientist.” It shows up with striking regularity, for example, in the drawings made by a class of seventh graders from Illinois who were asked their impressions of the scientific profession. The captions underneath their pictures tell the same story: “When I think of a scientist I think of brainy and very weird people,” wrote a boy named James.
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Mom-child bonding affects adult relationships: Study
MSN India: The bonding between a baby and the mother may affect the child''s romantic relationships later in adulthood, a new study has found. The more a baby is attached to his mom during childhood, the better he is at resolving relationship conflicts and enjoying stable, satisfying ties with their romantic partners in early adulthood, the researchers found. "It''s often very difficult to find the lingering effects of early life being related to adult behaviour, because life circumstances change," said study author Jeffry Simpson, a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota.
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Beetje ellende? Daar wordt u hard van!
Scientias: Het is een bekend gezegde. Maar klopt het ook? Onderzoek toont aan van wel. Zolang de ellende maar niet te erg wordt. “Negatieve gebeurtenissen hebben negatieve gevolgen,” zo benadrukt onderzoeker Mark Seery. Hij wil heus niet beweren dat ellende alleen maar goed is. Wat hij wel heeft aan kunnen tonen is dat ellende soms toch nog iets positiefs oplevert: mensen worden er sterker van. “Omdat iets slechts is gebeurd, wil dat nog niet zeggen dat iemand vanaf dat moment gedoemd is om beschadigd door het leven te gaan.” Onderzoek Hij baseert zijn conclusies op onderzoek onder verschillende mensen. Zo bestudeerde hij mensen die heel veel traumatische ervaringen mee hadden gemaakt.
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‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ explores brain processes
USA Today: Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is not only a best seller, it's making many best-books-of-the-year lists, including those from The New York Times and Amazon. It entered USA TODAY's list at No. 28 on Nov. 3 and, after eight weeks, is No. 45. Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for economics, is a psychologist and Princeton professor. Despite the author's academic pedigree, Thinking is aimed at the lay reader. The book, with 190,000 copies in print, explores how the brain processes information both rationally and through intuition. Read the whole story: USA Today
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Bebês guardam lembranças mesmo quando parecem esquecer, diz estudo
msn ESTADAO: Um estudo publicado na mais recente edição da revista Psychological Science afirma que os bebês de até 6 meses de idade podem conservar a noção de algo que viram, mesmo quando está fora de alcance. Essa descoberta derruba o antigo mito de que os bebês não teriam aguçado o sentido de 'permanência do objeto' - termo da Psicologia usado para descrever a crença da criança de que um objeto existe, ainda que esteja longe. Conduzido por um psicólogo especialista em desenvolvimento infantil da Universidade Johns Hopkins, em Baltimore, nos Estados Unidos, a pesquisa abre novos caminhos sobre a temática da memória infantil.
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Männer überschätzen ihre Anziehungskraft
Sueddeutsche Zeitung: Die Geschichte von Mann und Frau ist eine Geschichte voller Missverständnisse und Fehlinterpretationen. Einen möglichen Grund für die Kommunikationspannen zwischen den Geschlechter gibt nun eine neue Studie der US-Psychologin Carin Perilloux: Demnach neigen Männer oft dazu, ihre Anziehungskraft auf Frauen zu überschätzen. Die Wissenschaftlerin vom Williams College im US-Staat Massachusetts untersuchte mit Kollegen 96 Studenten und 103 Studentinnen beim Speed-Dating. Den Studienteilnehmern wurden jeweils fünf Personen des anderen Geschlechts als Gesprächspartner zugeteilt, die Begegnungen dauerten drei Minuten.
