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Politics, Civility, and Ideology – Insights from Psychological Science
We are political animals and it all starts in our brains. Psychological science gives us unique insights into an election year’s intensity and questions of political incivility, political ideology, political attitudes and brain structure, our genes and our political orientation, and emotional influences on decision making will be explored by leaders in the field at the Association for Psychological Science annual convention. These and many more panels, lectures, workshops and symposia will be featured throughout the convention in Chicago, held May 24-27, 2012. ********** Incivility and partisan gridlock are not unique to our time, but they have gotten worse since the early 1990s.
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Autism, ADHD, and Children’s Learning – Insights from Psychological Science
Critical issues in learning, ADHD and autism will be explored during the Association for Psychological Science annual convention in Chicago, from May 23 to the 27th. Leaders in the field studying attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorders, learning, and childhood development will present the latest in psychological science research that will shed light on treatment options, disorder management, memory and school performance. ********** There will be two major offerings in ADHD research. Four experts on ADHD will present current research, and discuss future directions for treating and assessing the disorder.
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Understanding and Promoting Mental Health – Insights From Psychological Science
Thanks to advances in many areas of psychological science, from addiction to zoophobia, scientists can evaluate existing treatments for mental health issues, design new and better approaches to intervention, and discover which biological factors promote mental health. Scientists will discuss the current state and future questions in clinical psychological science at the Association for Psychological Science’s 24th annual meeting in Chicago, May 24-27, 2012. News Items Facial Behavior in Diverse Contexts: Emotion, Deception, and Psychopathology What’s in a face?
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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.
