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Wisdom comes with age, study shows
The Telegraph: Two experiments designed to mirror realistic decision-making scenarios showed that older people were far better at making choices that led to long-term gain. While university-age participants were quicker to make choices which led to immediate rewards, another group aged 60 to 80 were much more adept at taking strategic decisions which took future stages into account. Previous studies had indicated that our ability to make decisions declines as we get older, but these had focused on people's capacity to make choices one at a time.
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Psicologia: Gli Anziani Sono Davvero Piu’ Saggi. Studio Spiega Perche’
Agenzia Stampa Quotidiana Nazionale: Prendere decisioni giuste? Con l'avanzare degli anni si acquista la capacita' di decidere per il meglio, almeno per quanto riguarda le scelte sul lungo termine. A sostenerlo e' uno studio pubblicato su Psychological Science da un gruppo di studiosi della Texas A&M University di Austin (Usa) da cui emerge che, mentre da giovani si e' piu' istintivi e in grado di effettuare scelte convenienti nel breve termine, da adulti si e' piu' posati e capaci di creare strategie in base all'ambiente circostante, e di prendere decisioni che porteranno a un vantaggio nel lungo periodo. Leggere più/Read the full story: Agenzia Stampa Quotidiana Nazionale
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Who’s the daddy? Men also suffer from ‘baby fever’, the desperate desire to be a parent
Daily Mail: A new study has revealed that men - as well as women - suffer from 'baby fever', the overwhelming desire to have children. The emotional and physical phenomenon is usually associated with women, who can be subject to sudden and extreme maternal urges. Gary Brase, associate professor of psychology at Kansas State University, and his wife Sandra, a project co-ordinator with the university's College of Education, have spent nearly 10 years researching baby fever. After releasing their findings yesterday Professor Brase said: 'Baby fever is this idea out in popular media that at some point in their lives, people get this sudden change in their desire to have children.
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Once Ridiculed, Male Bisexuals Are for Real
ABC: First, there was the time that Kenneth Minick was turned away from a nightclub when word got out that he was bisexual. Then, a co-worker, assuming he was gay jeered, "I hear you're coming out of the closet." His gay friends were just as bad. They, too, were baffled, making him feel like something was wrong with him because he couldn't "pick a team" -- Minick was attracted to both men and women. Now, Minick, a 36-year-old heating and air conditioning specialist from Laguna Niguel, Calif., is an advocate as part of the "It Gets Better Campaign.", and said he feels vindicated.
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In Remembrance of William K. Estes
National Medal of Science recipient William K. Estes passed away on August 17th at the age of 92. His long and productive career encompassed the science of learning and memory from behaviorism to cognitive science, with seminal contributions to both. He was also an active member of APS and was the founding editor of the journal Psychological Science. Estes (born June 17, 1919) began his graduate studies under the tutelage of B. F. Skinner during the early 1940s. Together, Estes and Skinner developed a conditioning paradigm, called conditioned suppression, which represented a new technique for studying learned fear (Estes & Skinner, 1941).
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50th Anniversary of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
Stories of torture, corporate greed, fraud, and misconduct are regular features of daily news coverage. For years, psychological scientists have tried to understand why ordinary and decent people are driven to commit such atrocious acts. Much of what we know on this topic can be traced to the work of one man: Stanley Milgram. Fifty years ago, Milgram, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University, began a famous and controversial series of experiments to test the boundaries of people’s obedience to authority and determine how far normal people would go in inflicting pain on others just because they were told to.
