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La douleur renforce la cohésion dans le groupe
Slate France: Partager une expérience douloureuse peut créer un sentiment de solidarité au sein d’un groupe, rapporte une étude publiée dans Psychological Science. En effet, la douleur pourrait avoir des conséquences sociales positives car elle agit «comme une sorte
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A Feeling of Control: How America Can Finally Learn to Deal With Its Impulses
Pacific Standard: The children’s television show Sesame Street has always had a way of reflecting the zeitgeist in shades of Muppet fur. Consider, for instance, the evolution of Cookie Monster. For his first few decades on air
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NSF Proposals for I/UCRCs in Areas Relevant to the Forensic Sciences
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) have partnered as co-sponsors to welcome proposals for establishment of Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers in areas relevant to the forensic sciences. With permission
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The Bonding Power of Shared Suffering
Pacific Standard: Managers: Are you having trouble melding your employees into a cohesive group? Is getting them to trust and cooperate with one another proving to be a challenge? Well, newly published research offers an effective, if
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Learning How to Exert Self-Control
The New York Times: PARIS — NOT many Ivy League professors are associated with a type of candy. But Walter Mischel, a professor of psychology at Columbia, doesn’t mind being one of them. “I’m the
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A Parrot Passes the Marshmallow Test
Slate: Can your kid pass the “marshmallow test”? And what does it mean if he can’t, but a parrot can? The marshmallow test is pretty simple: Give a child a treat, such as a marshmallow, and promise
