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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Iconic Memories Die a Sudden Death Michael S. Pratte Iconic memory is the sensory memory system that produces and stores visual information (icons) immediately after encountering it. Iconic memory maintains large amounts of unaltered visual information for brief periods of time. But how do items disappear from iconic memory? The author investigated whether items disappear from iconic memory because they gradually decay or because they entirely vanish in a sudden death. Participants saw 10 colored squares arranged in a circle for 200 ms.
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Psychological Research Shows How Biased We Are When It Comes To Female Leadership
Whether we like to confront it or not, our culture has shared unconscious biases of what each gender looks like in terms of qualities and abilities and how each gender should or should not behave. Because of this, our work is perceived differently - for better or worse - and our career paths, happiness and fulfillment are affected. One woman who is at the helm of sex bias research in the workplace is Madeline Heilman, a social and organizational psychologist who is Professor of Psychology at NYU. Madeline has been researching this topic for her entire career, and what she has seen in her research has not shifted a lot even with the incredible strides women have made in the workplace.
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Speaking a Second Language May Give Low-Income Kids a Boost
Children growing up in low-income homes score lower than their wealthier peers on cognitive tests and other measures of scholastic success, study after study has found. Now mounting evidence suggests a way to mitigate this disadvantage: learning another language. In an analysis published online in January in Child Development, Singapore Management University researchers probed demographic data and intellectual assessments from a subset of more than 18,000 kindergartners and first graders in the U.S.
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How romance can protect gay and lesbian youths from emotional distress
When Alexis Pegues came out to her relatives on her father’s side of the family, at age 16, they were shocked and upset and wouldn’t accept that she had a girlfriend. Her life was in turmoil. Even when she lived with her more-accepting mother’s side of the family, a few years later she had to deal with outside prejudice. Today, at 25 and living in Chicago with her girlfriend, Pegues still faces the stress of coming out to colleagues at work. What’s helped her feel better in each of these cases has been the loving support of a girlfriend.
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[Retracted] Giving Employees ‘Decoy’ Sanitizer Options Could Improve Hand Hygiene
This story was removed on June 7, 2019 because the research report on which it is based has been retracted. The full retraction notice is available online: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797619858006
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Will We Still Be Relevant ‘When We’re 64’?
A gnawing sense of irrelevancy and invisibility suddenly hits many aging adults, as their life roles shift from hands-on parent to empty nester or from workaholic to retiree. Self-worth and identity may suffer as that feeling that you matter starts to fade. Older adults see it in the workplace when younger colleagues seem uninterested in their feedback. Those who just retired might feel a bit unproductive. New research suggests this perception of becoming irrelevant is very real. And that’s why some seniors are determined to stay social, remain relevant and avert the loneliness often linked with aging.
