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Why do older people view life in a sunnier light than the young?
Examiner: Why do older people view life in a sunnier light than the young? Have older folks come to terms with loss, change, and the ability to let it go--at least when it comes to body images and family attachments? Are young people more or less attached to family than older people? Is it really the opportunities that existed with lower unemployment statistics between 1945 and 1965 and the cheaper prices of homes, cars, and college education or vocational training that makes the silent generation so much more happier than today's twenty-somethings?
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Seven Steps for Reinvention in 2012
The Huffington Post: I decided not to make any New Year's resolutions for 2012. Resolutions are changes we make based on what hasn't worked. Why not focus on what has worked and create from there? Clinical psychologist John Norcross agrees with this strategy in order to increase the odds for success. For example, if you want to double your first quarter sales compared to last year's first quarter, don't focus on the sales you didn't make. Instead, focus on the sales you did make and why you made them. From there, create action steps based on realistic, attainable goals.
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Law and Disorder: The Psychology of False Confessions
At 9:45 PM on November 10, 1984, 16-year-old Theresa Fusco finished up her shift at the roller skating rink in the Long Island village of Lynbrook. She never made it home that night. She was reported missing, but nearly a month passed before her body was found, naked, in a wooded area not far from the rink. She had been strangled and covered up with leaves and debris. There was semen in her vagina. Fusco was not the first young woman to disappear in the vicinity, and police were under tremendous public pressure to make an arrest.
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Liking yourself just the way you are
Los Angeles Times: You know it's tough out there when fashion and beauty executives think that even a model's body isn't good enough to sell clothes or that a celebrity's natural face isn't up to par, even with makeup. The website Jezebel reported in early December that Swedish retailing giant H&M featured images on its website of lingerie shown on "completely virtual" computer-generated bodies with real models' heads superimposed on top. Meanwhile the British Advertising Standards Authority banned two makeup ads in 2011 featuring Christy Turlington and Julia Roberts because they thought too much airbrushing made the ads misleading, and CoverGirl pulled a mascara ad after a U.S.
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Forget Being Grumpy…We Get Happier With Age
Express UK: Far from turning into grumpy old men and women, people become happier and more positive with age. Mature brains, as they age and lose memories, choose to retain happy ones and see the sunny side of life, according to a study. The over-50s also tended to cut out negative people from their life. Read the full story: Express UK
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People Mimic Each Other, But We Aren’t Chameleons
It’s easy to pick up on the movements that other people make—scratching your head, crossing your legs. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people only feel the urge to mimic each other when they have the same goal. It’s common for people to pick up on each other’s movements. “This is the notion that when you’re having a conversation with somebody and you don’t care where your hands are, and the other person scratches their head, you scratch your head,” says Sasha Ondobaka of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
