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Faces of Black Children as Young as Five Evoke Negative Biases
A new study suggests that people are more likely to misidentify a toy as a weapon after seeing a Black face than a White face, even when the face in question is that of a five-year-old child. The research is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “Our findings suggest that, although young children are typically viewed as harmless and innocent, seeing faces of five-year-old Black boys appears to trigger thoughts of guns and violence,” said lead study author Andrew Todd, an assistant professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa.
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When your football team wins, you eat healthier food
The Washington Post: By the time the Super Bowl is over Sunday night, you may have munched on a few too many nachos and chicken wings, and you might be almost as sick of cheap beer as you are of expensive TV ads. But if you’re a fan of the Denver Broncos or the Carolina Panthers, the game’s effect on what you eat could linger into Monday, too. Our research has found that people eat worse than they normally do on the day after their football team loses, and better than usual on the day after their team wins. They eat even more junk food if their team loses a close game. ...
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How high-fives boost team performance
Sports Illustrated: Can the number of high-fives, hugs and chest-bumps a team exchanges impact its win-loss record? Michael Kraus, a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, joins the show to discuss his study on the correlation between physical touch and performance among NBA teams, and how lessons from those findings can be taken off the court and into our business and personal relationships. Read the whole story: Sports Illustrated
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: The Economics of Losing a Loved One: Delayed Reward Discounting in Prolonged Grief Fiona Maccallum and George A. Bonanno Prolonged grief (PG) is a syndrome marked by intense and prolonged bereavement and is accompanied by significant impairment. Researchers still have much to learn about PG, including how it influences decision making. People who had lost a parent, partner, or sibling in the past 1 to 3 years were assessed for prolonged grief, life experiences, depression, and life orientation (whether they were more optimistic or pessimistic in their expectations).
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A Stanford scientist says we’re all suffering from ‘successaholism’ — and it needs to stop
Business Insider: In her new book, "The Happiness Track," Emma Seppala explains why happiness often paves the way for professional success. Unfortunately, she says, many workers have it backward, thinking that they need to be successful before they can ever be happy. That logic results in what she calls a fruitless "chase" for one achievement after another, thinking that the next one will finally make them happy. Call it workaholism or "successaholism" — Seppala, the science director for Stanford University's Center for Altruism and Compassion Research and Education, says it's a problematic cycle because it eventually leads to burnout and worse job performance.
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Bosses: Are You Too Gritty for Your Own Good?
The Wall Street Journal: Grit is great, most of the time. But some leaders may be too gritty for their own good. Long a hallmark of overachievers, grit is trendy nowadays—largely due to research byAngela Duckworth, a psychology professor at University of Pennsylvania. She finds that grit, defined as passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, better predicts success than talent or intelligence. Her 2013 TED talk about building grit has been watched nearly eight million times. “Gritty executives excel at their jobs and have the greatest potential to be promoted,” says Dean Stamoulis, head of the Center for Leadership Insight at recruiters Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.
