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Health Buzz: Why Being Mean to People Might Actually Help Them in the Future
U.S. News & World Report: Being mean to someone isn't typically seen as something to be proud of – but what if you were doing it in order to help someone else? Though a roundabout way of doing so, people might try and make someone feel bad in a situation where they think it will be helpful to someone in the future, a new study says. Previous studies have found people look to make others feel bad with personal gain in mind, though researchers for this study wanted to find out whether people would do it altruistically. ...
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring perceived misalignment between limb and body movement and links between schooling and children’s cognitive control.
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Alan Alda on the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
The Psychology Podcast: Today we have Alan Alda on the podcast! Alan has earned international recognition as an actor, writer, and director. He has won seven Emmy Awards, has received three Tony nominations, and is an inductee of the Television Hall of Fame. Many people know of his groundbreaking role as Hawkeye Pierce on the classic television series M*A*S*H, but what many people may not realize is that Alda is also ravenously curious about science, and is a wonderful science communicator!
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Teens at elite high schools at higher risk of addiction, study finds
CBS: Privilege doesn't necessarily offer protection from drug addiction, new research suggests. Teens at elite U.S. high schools seem to face a higher risk of addiction as young adults, the study found. "We found alarmingly high rates of substance abuse among young adults who we initially studied as teenagers," said study author Suniya Luthar, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University.
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The Worst Part of Keeping a Secret
The Atlantic: The average person is keeping 13 secrets right now. Five of them are secrets they’ve never told another living soul. These stats come from a new paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which looked at more than 13,000 secrets over 10 different studies. The researchers asked participants if they were keeping any of 38 different common categories of secrets which ranged from infidelity to financial secrets to secret hobbies. The most common secrets that people shared with no one else were: extra-relational thoughts (thinking something romantic or sexual about someone other than your partner), romantic desire, sexual behavior, and lies. ...
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How Not to Step on That Banana Peel
The Wall Street Journal: Growing up in Manhattan in the 1940s and ’50s, I climbed the Palisades across the Hudson, rode between subway cars, took 15- and 20-mile bike rides along busy highways, bodysurfed the breakers at Long Beach in the summers, played hardball on lumpy playgrounds with my glasses on, swam in pools during polio season, flicked my switchblade, set off cherry bombs and had BB guns fired at me. And I never suffered more than a scuffed knee and a cut lip.
