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To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science
Scientific American: Women and girls are historically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and much has been written lately about why girls in school seem disinterested in these areas. As STEM becomes more
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Survey: Young people who use social media seek fame
USA Today: Tweens and young teens who use social media place a higher value on fame than kids who don’t use it or use it infrequently, according to a new survey of media use among
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Stop and See Milgram’s ‘Shock Box’
It’s been more than 50 years since Yale psychology professor Stanley Milgram began his groundbreaking experiments on obedience to authority when ordered to harm others. His infamous “shock box” embodies one of the most famous
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Feeling Powerful Will Make You Smarter
Business Insider: Successful leaders often seem to have sharper minds than the rest of us—isn’t that how they got to the top in the first place? While we often assume that people become powerful because
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Seeing Happiness In Facial Expressions, Instead Of Anger, Can Lessen Aggression
The Huffington Post: How you perceive emotions in others can have a real impact on how you feel yourself, according to a new study. The new research, published in the journal Psychological Science, shows that
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Recycled Emotions
The Wall Street Journal: Rage, I’ve discovered, encourages writing. A couple of years ago I wrote a column about collecting trash along my road upstate. Or rather I wrote a column where I tried, unsuccessfully
