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Discarding Ideas (Literally)
The Wall Street Journal: Plagued by unwanted thoughts? Try writing them down and throwing the paper away. A new study finds that this trick works. First, students were asked to write down positive or negative
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The Science Behind Gifting
The Wall Street Journal: To be a really successful giver of gifts, a person usually needs to get inside the head of the intended recipient. Unfortunately, psychological studies reveal that givers and receivers have a
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Simple Strategy Helps You Learn from Mistakes
Yahoo: A new study in Psychological Science bears out this benefit of self-affirmation. Volunteers were first asked to rank six values in order of importance to them. Then half spent five minutes writing about why
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Feeling Disgust May Enhance Our Ability to Detect Impurities
Disgust – it’s an emotion we experience when we encounter things that are dirty, impure, or otherwise contaminated. From an evolutionary standpoint, experiencing the intense, visceral sense of revulsion that comes with disgust presumably helps
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Babies learn to walk after dozens of falls per day
Asian News International: Infants learn new things and acquire new skills every day and researchers have suggested that the abilities that they demonstrate early on can shape the development of skills later in life, in
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To Clear Negative Thoughts, Physically Throw Them Away: Study
The Huffington Post: Bothered by negative thoughts? Clearing your mind of them could be as simple as writing them down and physically throwing them away, according to a new study, published in the journal Psychological
