"Have successful professionals always been successful? Take Francesca Gino. An Associate Professor at Harvard, she is considered by many to be a superstar.
But things did not always look so bright for her: two years in a row she gave job talks at a number of top 10 schools and universities, but got no offers from those schools. Yet, in 2009, ...
Date Posted: May 11, 2013
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The era is long gone when a romantic breakup meant ripped-up photos and burned love letters. Today, digital photos and emails can be quickly deleted but the proliferation of social media has made forgetting a bigger chore.
What about the ubiquitous ...
May 11
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Why do brands such as Manchester United and Apple capture hearts and minds? When consumers feel a strong emotional attachment to a brand, there is seemingly nothing we would not do–from paying more for it to defending it against detractors. For ...
May 10
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The Greek Stoic Epictetus wrote that "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." A new study involving 185 children and teenagers, 88 fathers and 97 mothers shows how this same principle applies to children's fear of ...
May 10
Categories: Fear
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he adult brain continues to grow with the challenges that it faces; its changes are linked to the development of personality and behavior. But what is the link between individual experience and brain structure? Why do identical twins not resemble ...
May 10
Categories: Individuation
GOMost of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we ...
May 9
Categories: Addictions, Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...
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Many parents' reasons for using controlled crying can be summed up in one word: work. Parents who want "routines" are keen on controlled crying, says Gina Ford, a famous British advocate of the system, and she comments that babies who have been ...
May 9
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Math and reading ability at age 7 may be linked with socioeconomic status several decades later, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The childhood abilities predict ...
May 9
Categories: Child Development, Learning Difficulties
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Students who did about an hour of "mindfulness training" for eight days subsequently did better on the GRE as well as tests of working memory and mind-wandering.
The Internet is probably destroying our attention spans and working memories, but ...
May 8
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Mindfulness ...
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Working on a team is always a challenge, but a new study highlights a particular challenge to women: how much they credit themselves in a joint success. Women will devalue their contributions when working with men but not with other women, according ...
May 8
Categories: Women's Issues, Workplace Issues
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Statistical logic means that your lover has probably had more sexual partners than you. Similarly, at the gym, most of the other users train more frequently than you. And your friends have more friends than you do - this last observation was ...
May 8
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Mothers who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences show an unwillingness to talk with their children about the child’s emotional experiences, a new study from the University of Notre Dame shows.
May 7
Categories: Child Development, Parenting, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / ...
GOFor those who are interested in Psychology and want to learn a little more about it without having to read the tons of books available on the subject, you can watch this series of online videos recorded from lectures from the University of ...
May 7
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It was suspiciously warm, the reception given to a study published a week ago in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. A survey of 4,600 young people in the Netherlands, aged 15 to 25, found the behavioral impact of pornography—most of it online ...
May 7
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Marvin Tolkin wasn't clinically depressed. But at 83, he said, he "struggled through a lot of things in my life" - the demise of a business partnership, the sudden death of his first wife 18 years ago. He worried about his children and ...
May 6
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Step into a class of 30 high school students and look around. Five of them have been victims of electronic bullying in the past year.
What's more, 10 of those students spend three or more hours on an average school day playing video games or using ...
May 6
Categories: Bullying
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