We often can’t rely on ourselves to act rationally. We know this, but much social science has a bad habit of ignoring it. A more realistic role for rationality is needed to grasp the unhidden but unmodeled relationship between decisions and actions. We evolved to frequently act without deciding. The widely used Rational Actor Model rests on ...
Date Posted: June 15, 2013
GOCommunities that stick together and do good for others cope better with crises and are happier for it, according to a new study by John Helliwell, from the University of British Columbia in Canada, and colleagues¹. Their work suggests that part of ...
Jun 14
Categories: Happiness
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Not long ago I reported on a study which found that guitar cases have considerable power over women when they are asked on a date.
The French psychologist who conducted that study, Nicolas Gueguen, has been up to his old tricks again on the ...
Jun 14
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If policy-makers want to do something about falling birth rates, they may want to take a look at improving how people are treated at work when they step outside of traditional family roles at home.
New studies show that middle-class men who take ...
Jun 14
Categories: Parenting
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Smile and the world smiles with you — but new research suggests that not all smiles are created equal. The research shows that people actually anticipate smiles that are genuine but not smiles that are merely polite. The differing responses may ...
Jun 13
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My experiences as a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor have made it evident to me that we all seek to discern a deeper meaning in our human existence by connecting with a higher spiritual sense of life, on personal and collective levels. There ...
Jun 13
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Facebook is a mirror and Twitter is a megaphone, according to a new University of Michigan study exploring how social media reflect and amplify the culture's growing levels of narcissism.
The study, published online in Computers in Human Behavior, ...
Jun 13
Categories: Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem
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Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player's hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers.
"Gamers see ...
Jun 12
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“Reading and sending e-mails,” reports The Daily Telegraph, “prompts telltale signs of stress including elevated blood pressure, heart rate and levels of the hormone cortisol, a study found. Researchers who followed a group of 30 government ...
Jun 12
Categories: Stress Management
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In the first prospective study of its kind, Seaver Autism Center researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provide new evidence of the severity of intellectual, motor, and speech impairments in a subtype of autism called ...
Jun 12
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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A few weeks ago, while staying with my in-laws, my four-month-old son woke up at two-thirty in the morning. He was hungry, and, knowing that he would not be coaxed back to sleep without a bottle, I brought him downstairs to the kitchen, where his ...
Jun 11
Categories: Mindfulness
GOSandra Yuen MacKay, an artist and author, speaks about the impact of creativity on her life with mental illness.
Jun 11
Categories: Bipolar, Schizophrenia
GOWhen Dr. David Yusko speaks with people who've suffered traumatic experiences -- roadside explosions, gunshot wounds, rape -- he sometimes has difficulty coaxing people to open up. Patients will shrug off questions, give one-word answers or decline ...
Jun 11
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Pink is for girls. Blue is for boys. Of course our society allows exceptions now and again, but imagine showing up to a boy’s baby shower with a pink bib and matching pink shoes. There would be whispers that either you’re nuts or you must not ...
Jun 8
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By activating a brain circuit that controls compulsive behavior, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can block a compulsive behavior in mice - a result that could help researchers develop new treatments for diseases such as obsessive-compulsive ...
Jun 8
Categories: Obsessions & Compulsions (OCD)
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Some call it neurological diversity, others see it as autism's fight back. People diagnosed as "on the spectrum" are suddenly in demand by employers seeking a competitive advantage from autistic workers more used to being considered disabled than ...
Jun 8
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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