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Darkness increases dishonest behavior - 0 views

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    "Darkness can conceal identity and encourage moral transgressions; thus Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in "Worship" in The Conduct of Life (1860), "as gaslight is the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity." New research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that darkness may also induce a psychological feeling of illusory anonymity, just as children playing "hide and seek" will close their eyes and believe that other cannot see them, the experience of darkness, even one as subtle as wearing a pair of sunglasses, triggers the belief that we are warded from others' attention and inspections."
thinkahol *

Positive well-being to higher telomerase: Psychological changes from meditation trainin... - 0 views

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    ScienceDaily (Nov. 4, 2010) - Positive psychological changes that occur during meditation training are associated with greater telomerase activity, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of California, San Francisco. The study is the first to link positive well-being to higher telomerase, an enzyme important for the long-term health of cells in the body.
thinkahol *

Video games: Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills - 0 views

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    According to a new study in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, regular gamers are fast and accurate information processors, not only during game play, but in real-life situations as well.
Erich Feldmeier

Kiley Hamlin: wissenschaft.de - Nicht wie ich = blöd Babys Ausgrenzung - 0 views

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    "Schon Kleinkinder bevorzugen Individuen, die ihnen möglichst ähnlich sind" Kiley Hamlin (University of British Columbia) et al.: Psychological Science, Online-Vorabveröffentlichung, doi: 10.1177/0956797612457785
Erich Feldmeier

Adam Corner | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "Adam Corner is a research associate at Cardiff University. His interests include the psychology of communicating climate change"
Erich Feldmeier

Noise and Signal - Nassim Taleb | Farnam Street - 0 views

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    "There is a biological story with information. I have been repeating that in a natural environment, a stressor is information. So too much information would be too much stress, exceeding the threshold of antifragility. In medicine, we are discovering the healing powers of fasting, as the avoidance of too much hormonal rushes that come with the ingestion of food. Hormones convey information to the different parts of our system and too much of it confuses our biology. Here again, as with the story of the news received at too high a frequency, too much information becomes harmful. And in Chapter x (on ethics) I will show how too much data (particularly when sterile) causes statistics to be completely meaningless. Now let's add the psychological to this: we are not made to understand the point, so we overreact emotionally to noise. The best solution is to only look at very large changes in data or conditions, never small ones"
Erich Feldmeier

Jonah Lehrer: The Psychology of Nakedness | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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    "We are a superficial species. And this brings me to a fascinating new paper by an all star team of psychologists, including Kurt Gray, Joshua Knobe, Mark Sheskin, Paul Bloom and Lisa Feldman Barrett.. we automatically assume that the capacity to think and the capacity to feel are in opposition. It's a zero sum game. What does all this have to do with nakedness? The psychologists demonstrated it's quite easy to shift our perceptions of other people from having a mind full of agency to having a mind interested in experience: all they have to do is take off their clothes."
Erich Feldmeier

Sarah Gervas: Neue Untersuchungen: Frauen werden primär als Sexobjekte wahrge... - 0 views

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    "Das Ergebnis: Die Teilnehmer erkannten die ursprünglichen Männerfotos viel schlechter, wenn sie falsch herum gezeigt wurden. Bei den Frauenfotos war das nicht der Fall. Tatsächlich machte es kaum einen Unterschied, ob die Frauen auf dem Kopf standen oder nicht. Männer werden eher als Personen wahrgenommen Die Schlussfolgerung der Forscher: Männer werden eher als Personen, Frauen hingegen eher als Objekte wahrgenommen, schreiben sie im Fachmagazin "Psychological Science". Das Erstaunliche: "Wir können das nicht nur auf die Männer schieben. Frauen nehmen andere Frauen auf die gleiche Weise war", erläutert Sarah Gervais, Professorin für Psychologie an der amerikanischen University of Nebraska und Mitautorin der Studie."
Janos Haits

Kismet - 0 views

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    The Sociable Machines Project develops an expressive anthropomorphic robot called Kismet that engages people in natural and expressive face-to-face interaction. Inspired by infant social development, psychology, ethology, and evolution, this work integrates theories and concepts from these diverse viewpoints to enable Kismet to enter into natural and intuitive social interaction with a human caregiver and to learn from them, reminiscent of parent-infant exchanges.
Erich Feldmeier

@brainpicker #neurobiology Maria Popova The Science of Dreams and Why We Have Nightmare... - 0 views

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    "The Science of Dreams and Why We Have Nightmares by Maria Popova The psychology of our built-in nocturnal therapy."
John Gray

Psychology Calendar: Events and Seminars for 2013 - 0 views

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    Psychologists are often referred to as social, behavioural and cognitive scientists because of the nature of their profession. By studying the role of mental functions in the behaviour of people, and the society as a whole, they are able to know how to deal with issues facing the community today.
thinkahol *

You can't fight violence with violence - opinion - 13 July 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    The psychology of vengeance explains much about the state of the world and suggests the war on terror can never succeed, says Metin Basoglu
Charles Daney

Dogs: Kids in Fur Coats? -- ScienceNOW - 0 views

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    Dog owners often compare their pets to toddlers; many even treat their pooches like kids. It's easy to label such comparisons sentimental. But a new study suggests that the owners are right. A team of scientists has discovered that dogs behave surprisingly like 10-month-old infants on a classic psychological test--though there is one important difference.
Charles Daney

Will Power: You Grow With The Task -- Ingenious Monkey - 20 two 5 - 0 views

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    Following Baumeister et al.'s widely cited work on self-regulation, many psychologists view will-power as a depletable resource. According to this view, whenever we perform acts of self-regulation (e.g. resisting a delicious piece of cake) we tap into our individual will-power reservoir (think of it as a bank account), and thereby reduce the amount of will-power left for subsequent tasks. According to a study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, however, this plausible intuition does not necessarily seem to hold true entirely.
Erich Feldmeier

Tamir DI, Mitchell JP. Disclosing information about the self is intrinsically rewarding. - 0 views

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    Tamir DI, Mitchell JP. Disclosing information about the self is intrinsically rewarding. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. dtamir@fas.harvard.edu Abstract Humans devote 30-40% of speech output solely to informing others of their own subjective experiences. What drives this propensity for disclosure? Here, we test recent theories that individuals place high subjective value on opportunities to communicate their thoughts and feelings to others and that doing so engages neural and cognitive mechanisms associated with reward. Five studies provided support for this hypothesis. Self-disclosure was strongly associated with increased activation in brain regions that form the mesolimbic dopamine system, including the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area. Moreover, individuals were willing to forgo money to disclose about the self.
Erich Feldmeier

Kate Morgan: wissenschaft.de - Kaugummi als Lernhilfe - 0 views

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    ""Dieses Ergebnis deutet darauf hin, dass Kaugummikauen uns dabei hilft, uns auf Aufgaben zu konzentrieren, die ständige Aufmerksamkeit über längere Zeit erfordern", sagt Morgan. Da auch das Kurzzeitgedächtnis für diese Aufgabe wichtig war, widerspreche der Befund denen der früheren Studie, bei denen sich Probanden Buchstaben merken mussten. Die Forscher räumen zwar ein, dass es methodische Unterschiede zur dieser Studie gab, dennoch ist ihrer Ansicht nach damit die These nicht haltbar, nach der Kaugummikauen generell einen negativen Einfluss auf das Kurzzeitgedächtnis hat. Wer also im Büro oder der Schule wegen seines Kaugummikauens kritisiert wird, hat künftig neben der Zahnpflege ein Argument mehr zur Verteidigung: Es erhält die Konzentration und fördert damit letztlich auch die geistige Leistung. Kate Morgan (University of Cardiff) et al., British Journal of Psychology, doi: 10.1111/bjop.12025"
Erich Feldmeier

Mirjam Tuk: wissenschaft.de - Was Toiletten mit Spontankäufen zu tun haben - 0 views

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    "Die Forscher selbst sind von den Ergebnissen etwas überrascht - sie hatten genau den umgekehrten Effekt erwartet. So zeigten viele frühere Forschungsarbeiten, dass Selbstkontrolle offenbar eine begrenzte Ressource ist. Es ist zum Beispiel schwieriger ist, nicht über eine Tüte Chips herzufallen, wenn man sich bereits darauf konzentriert, einem anderen Verlangen zu widerstehen. Tuk ist jedoch der Meinung, dass bei der Blasenkontrolle ein anderer Mechanismus wirkt, weil diese großenteils automatisch und unbewusst abläuft. Mirjam Tuk (Universität Twente) et al: Psychological Science, Online-Vorabveröffentlichung vom 1. März"
Erich Feldmeier

Faculty Profile - Norbert Schwarz : University of Michigan PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT - 0 views

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    "Metacognitive experiences and the intricacies of setting people straight" decision making by few arguments better than more cognitive greed, info overload http://ed.iiqii.de/gallery/Science-TheOnlyNews/FrontalCortex_wired_com warum wir nur bis 3 zählen können
Erich Feldmeier

Leonard Guarente Longevity Proteins Also May Be Linked To Mood Control - 0 views

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    "Over the last 10 years, MIT biologist Leonard Guarente and other researchers have demonstrated that very-low-calorie diets provoke a comprehensive physiological response, which promotes survival due to a set of proteins called sirtuins. A new report by Guarente published online in Cell has now demonstrated that sirtuins may also have a key part in the psychological response to dietary restriction. "
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