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Will Doctors Soon Be Prescribing Video Games For Mental Health?
NPR: Developers of a new video game for your brain say theirs is more than just another get-smarter-quick scheme. Akili, a Northern California startup, insists on taking the game through a full battery of clinical
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Innovative Assessment of Collaboration 2014
Double tree Hilton Hotel Crystal City, Arlington VA Monday, Nov. 3 – Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 I) Evaluation of Team Performance in Organizations – This panel will discuss methods and findings for evaluating collective performance
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Perfect, It Turns Out, Is What Practice Doesn’t Make
The Huffington Post: We’ve long been eager to believe that mastery of a skill is primarily the result of how much effort one has put in. Extensive practice “is probably the most reasonable explanation we
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Actually, Practice Doesn’t Always Make Perfect — New Study
The Washington Post: We’ve long been eager to believe that mastery of a skill is primarily the result of how much effort one has put in. Extensive practice “is probably the most reasonable explanation we
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Practice makes… some difference
The Boston Globe: IN HIS BEST-SELLING BOOK “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion—based on a 1993 article in a psychology journal—that top performers were mainly differentiated by extensive practice (10,000+ hours), and not innate ability. However
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Is Malcolm Gladwell wrong? Scientists debate the “10,000-hour rule”
Salon: A new study, published in the journal Psychological Science, is fueling the practice-versus-talent debate. The study was co-authored by Zach Hambrick, of Michigan State University, Brooke Macnamara, who is currently at Case Western Reserve University, and Rice
