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‘Queen Bee’ Bosses Often Victims of Sexist Workplace
LiveScience: Some female bosses get a bad rap for their "queen bee" behaviors, including the cold shoulder they give to other women in the office. But new research suggests we should blame the sexist work environment, not the bosses themselves, for the behavior. To determine whether queen bee behavior is actually a response to a difficult, male-dominated environment, researchers at the Leiden University in the Netherlands gave an online questionnaire to 63 senior women working at police departments in three Dutch cities.
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Solstice Psychology: How We ‘See’ Nature
Imagine that you arrive by bus at a vacation spot you’ve never been to before. You get out and look around. What do you notice at first glance? Well, you can’t miss the large lake right in front of you; should be some good water skiing there. There’s a snow-capped mountain rising in the distance, and a copse of hemlock trees just to the left. The lodging must be in that chalet down to the right. The screened porch looks inviting, and the weather’s perfect. Now imagine you’re a criminal on the lam, and you step off the same bus. What do you see? Well mostly you see a vast open space. Other than that small stand of trees, there is very little place to hide. You feel exposed, vulnerable.
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How Do We Recognize Faces?
How do we recognize a face? Do we pick out “local” features— an eye or a mouth— and extrapolate from there? Or do we take in the “global” configuration—facial structure, distance between the features—at once? Now, a group of psychologists— Sébastien Miellet and Philippe G. Schyns at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Roberto Caldara at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland—have settled the longstanding debate between scientists who hold to the “local” strategy and those who favor the “global” one. “Face processing does not rely on a rigid system or a unique and mandatory information sampling strategy,” said Miellet.
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Riots in Vancouver are the latest connected to high-profile championship sporting events
Los Angeles Times: The morning after rioters made their mark on the city that he loves, Al Cyrenne made his. Cyrenne, who lives close enough to downtown Vancouver that he could see the smoke rising from cars that vandals set aflame, made his way into the destruction zone Thursday with a push broom and a felt-tipped marker. He spent three hours sweeping up glass and debris, then used his marker to scrawl a message on a boarded-up store window: "The real people of Vancouver are here today." The ugliness from the night before lingered.
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Understanding the gift of endless memory
CBS News (60 Minutes): Enter Dr. James McGaugh, a professor of neurobiology at the University of California Irvine, and a renowned expert on memory. Dr. McGaugh is the first to discover and study superior autobiographical memory, and he is quizzing Owen - his fifth subject - to find out. "Let's move back in time now to 1990. It rained on several days in January and February, can you name the dates on which it rained?" McGaugh asked. Believe it or not, she could. "Let's see. It was slightly rainy and cloudy on January 14th, 15th. It was very hot the weekend of the 27th, 28th, no rain," she replied. Read more: CBS News (60 Minutes)
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Viewing negative emotion-laden images can boost memory
Yahoo Singapore: Washington, June 19 (ANI): A new research has suggested that witnessing a negative and shocking image enhances the retention of everything that one learns before seeing them. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that viewing emotion-laden images such as, a menacing drill sergeant, a gory slaughterhouse or a devastating scene of a natural disaster, immediately after taking a test actually increases people's retention of the tested material. "Memory is labile and dynamic - after you retrieve something, you're still engaged in processing that information in some way," said Bridgid Finn, PhD, postdoctoral researcher in psychology in Arts and Sciences.
