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Training Can Increase Empathy
Scientific American: Can you train someone to be a nicer person? A recent study using meditation techniques shows that it might be possible. The research is published in the journal Psychological Science. [Helen Y. Weng
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Microbleeding in Brain May Be Behind Senior Moments
Science: People may grow wiser with age, but they don’t grow smarter. Many of our mental abilities decline after midlife, and now researchers say that they’ve fingered a culprit. A study presented here last week
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Compassion Can Be Cultivated
Pacific Standard: Can people be taught to act more altruistically? Newly published research, measuring both brain activity and behavior, suggests the answer just may be yes. “Our findings support the possibility that compassion and altruism
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Brain Can Be Trained in Compassion, Study Shows
A study shows that training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior.
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Fear, Happiness, and Sadness Share Common Neural Building Blocks
Diverse emotions are based on common building blocks of pleasure, displeasure, and arousal, according to new research
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science. The Curse of Planning: Dissecting Multiple Reinforcement-Learning Systems by Taxing the Central Executive A. Ross Otto, Samuel J. Gershman, Arthur B. Markman, and Nathaniel D. Daw Under
