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A Thief That Robs the Brain of Language
The New York Times: Steve Riedner of Schaumberg, Ill., was a 55-year-old tool-and-die maker, a job that involves difficult mental calculations, and a frequent speaker at community meetings when he found himself increasingly at a loss for words and unable to remember numbers. He even began to have difficulty reading his own written comments. The neurologist he consulted thought Mr. Riedner had suffered a stroke and for three years treated him with cholesterol-lowering medication. But instead of his language ability stabilizing or improving, as should happen following a stroke, it got worse. A second neurologist concluded after further testing that Mr.
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Plus les hommes ont du pouvoir, moins ils sont fidèles
Yahoo France: Le pouvoir et la libido sont-ils étroitement liés? La question mérite d'être posée. Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich. Eliot Spitzer. Mark Sanford. Le Time s'amuse à citer les hommes politiques dont le point commun n'est pas le parti ou la philosophie, mais l'infidélité. Les probabilités [d'infidélité] augmentent avec le pouvoir de la personne», affirme Joris Lammers, auteur d'une étude qui se penche sur les liens entre sexe et pouvoir. Publiée dans Psychological Science, l'étude se fonde sur l'analyse des résultats d'un sondage mené sur 1.561 lecteurs d'une revue d'affaires néerlandaise.
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Erfolge machen männlich
Men's Health Germany: Männlichkeit ist offenbar kein biologisches Phänomen, sondern sie hängt von der Wahrung der Ehre und Erfolgen ab, so eine US-Studie. Männern sei es wichtig vor anderen gut da zu stehen und als stark und furchtlos gelten, erklären die Studienleiter Jennifer K. Bosson und Joseph A. Vandello von der University of South Florida. Männlichkeit sei ein sozialer Status, den man sich schwer verdienen müsse und leicht wieder verlieren könne, so die Psychologen. Ein gedemütigter Mann beispielsweise, reagiere mit Aggression, um vor seinen Geschlechtsgenossen keine Schwäche zu zeigen. Die Forscher bezeichnen männliche Aggressionen als "Männlichkeitswiederherstellungs-Taktik".
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“The Young Ones” nominated for BAFTA
Harvard Gazette: “The Young Ones,” a BBC series filmed with Harvard Professor of Psychology Ellen Langer, which replicates her Counterclockwise study using British celebrities, has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) Award. The BAFTAs are the British equivalent of the Emmy Awards. The awards ceremony will be held May 22. Read the whole story: Harvard Gazette
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Think it’s easy to be macho? Psychologists show how ‘precarious’ manhood is
Manhood is a “precarious” status—difficult to earn and easy to lose. And when it’s threatened, men see aggression as a good way to hold onto it. These are the conclusions of a new article by University of South Florida psychologists Jennifer K. Bosson and Joseph A. Vandello. The paper is published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “Gender is social,” says, Bosson. “Men know this. They are powerfully concerned about how they appear in other people’s eyes.” And the more concerned they are, the more they will suffer psychologically when their manhood feels violated.
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Powerful Women as Likely to Cheat as Men, Study Finds
Bloomberg Businessweek: Women in powerful positions are just as likely as men to cheat on their spouses, according to new research. It's widely believed that men are more likely than women to cheat on their spouses, but power appears to be a more important factor than gender, according to the study published April 28 in the journal Psychological Science. "There has been a lot of research in the past that indicates that gender is the strongest predictor of infidelity, but none of these studies have been done on powerful women," Joris Lammers, of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, said in a journal news release. Read the whole story: Bloomberg Businesweek
