Whether it's investing in stocks, bungee jumping or public speaking, why do we often plan to take risks but then "chicken out" when the moment of truth arrives? In a new paper in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder and Carnegie Mellon University argue that this "illusion of courage" is one ...
Date Posted: January 18, 2012
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As a rule of thumb, you’re operating within the realm of healthy perfectionism when your payoffs are greater than your costs, you are striving for and meeting standards you set for yourself, and you value organization. However, your unhealthy ...
Jan 18
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Why people are reluctant to exchange lottery tickets, but will happily exchange pens.
Regret might not make a list of the most powerful emotions. It would probably include things like anger, happiness, jealousy, sadness and especially for us ...
Jan 17
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Does depression have an upside? Is there some sort of evolutionary advantage for a person to become depressed, for instance, to re-evaluate their lives or perhaps a choice they made that led to their current depression?
Most people who are ...
Jan 17
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The psychological experience of power makes people feel taller than they are, according to research by ILR School associate professor of organizational behavior Jack Goncalo and a Washington University colleague.
"Although a great deal of ...
Jan 17
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Blackberries and iPhones are meant to help workers manage their workload by giving them access to messages and alerts while away from the office.
But people become so obsessive about checking their email accounts and social networking sites that ...
Jan 16
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A new study confirms that men's minds come from Mars and women's from Venus. In an article recently published in the online journal PLoS ONE, Italian cognitive psychologist Marco Del Giudice and his collaborators compared the personality traits of ...
Jan 16
GOWhile the value of friendship has been well established for individuals, little had been known about the impact of married couples' forming and keeping friendships with other couples. These relationships often make for happier marriages and also ...
Jan 16
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Ah yes, that perennial palliative aphorism for the broken-hearted and post-hoc rationalization for the ruthless: nice guys finish last. But is the old saying true? If size (of your financial statement) matters, then the answer just may be ...
Jan 14
GOOver the last few years I have been very busy working with teachers to create individualized behavior plans for several different elementary school students. There have been amazingly successful plans where some of the most significant behavior ...
Jan 14
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Internet addiction causes changes in the brain similar to that normally seen in people addicted to alcohol and drugs such as cocaine and cannabis, a study has found.
Researchers in China scanned the brains of 17 young web addicts and found that ...
Jan 13
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There are lots of career paths in psychology beyond some of the "typical" options like clinical or counseling psychology. In fact, some of the most interesting job options might be those that you do not hear much about such as aviation psychology or ...
Jan 13
GORacial discrimination may be harmful to your health, according to new research from Rice University sociologists Jenifer Bratter and Bridget Gorman. Approximately 18 percent of blacks and 4 percent of whites reported higher levels of emotional upset ...
Jan 13
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The most important thing to remember is that classical conditioning involves automatic or reflexive responses, and not voluntary behavior (that’s operant conditioning, and that is a different post). What does this mean? For one thing, that means ...
Jan 12
GODrinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, according to a study led by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San ...
Jan 12
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The Eastern view of parenting, as defined by best-selling author and self-described "tiger mother" Amy Chua, is that children should be pushed to excel at all costs. Parents needn't worry about their happiness, she argues, only their success. But ...
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