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Greater Performance Improvements When Quick Responses Are Rewarded More Than Accuracy Itself
ScienceBlogs: Last month’s Frontiers in Psychology contains a fascinating study by Dambacher, Hübner, and Schlösser in which the authors demonstrate that the promise of financial reward can actually reduce performance when rewards are given for
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Do boys and their toys have a ‘technical’ smarts advantage over girls?
Metro News: Compared to girls, boys are more enthralled by technical things such as taking apart a bike, which is why they score higher in technical aptitude tests, scientists claim in a new study. Psychologists
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Practice Doesn’t Always Make Perfect, Study Suggests
U.S. News & World Report: Practice is an essential part of gaining excellence in a specific skill, but to become truly great other qualities must come into play, such as IQ or working memory, according
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Psychologists’ Golf Trick Shows Superstition Boosts Performance
WIRED: How can you make people better at sports? Tell them they’re using equipment that previously belonged to a professional athlete. No, really. A new study finds that golfers significantly improved their putting ability when
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Practice necessary, but not enough to master chess
Yahoo News India: There is a theory in psychology that the more you practice; the better you’ll do in areas like sports, music, and chess. But, a psychological scientist has claimed that practice is necessary
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Bonus tötet Arbeitsfreude
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Staaten sind von der Pleite bedroht, Banken stehen nach nur drei Jahren vor der nächsten Rettungsaktion durch die resignierenden Steuerzahler – aber die Boni fließen weiterhin, vor allem die für Banker, die mit
