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Mindfulness May Improve Test Scores
Scientific American: There’s a meditation practice called “mindfulness” that is about actively focusing on the present moment and increasing one’s attention span. Recently scientists analyzed whether such a practice could help improve undergrads’ test scores
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Verschwörungstheorien: Was Faktenleugner bewegt (Conspiracy: Fact Deniers)
Der Spiegel: Die überwältigende Mehrheit der Klimaforscher ist sich einig, dass sich das Klima verändert und dass vom Menschen verursachte Kohlendioxidemissionen diesen Prozess beeinflussen. Trotzdem wird in der Öffentlichkeit heftig darüber gestritten – und so
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Mindfulness Training Boosts Test Scores
Pacific Standard: Studies reporting the benefits of mindfulness training keep rolling in—not quite with the regularity of those distracting thoughts that keep popping up in your head, but at a good clip nonetheless. The latest
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Derek Evan Nee
University of California, Berkeley http://despolab.berkeley.edu/denee/ What does your research focus on? My research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms of working memory and cognitive control. These are means to a broader understanding of the higher-level cognitive
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Kurt Gray
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www.mpmlab.org What does your research focus on? I study 1) how people perceive the minds of others 2) how people make moral judgments and 3) the link between
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Marcela Tenorio D.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile www.cedeti.cl What does your research focus on? My primary interests are in cognitive development across the lifespan and how to develop proper instruments to assess cognitive trajectories. My current research
