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There’s a test that can tell you if you unconsciously have negative bias towards a race or group of people! - Facts - Mar 21, 2012 - OMG Facts
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a new method of testing. It converges our conscious and unconscious minds better than any other previous tests. The thing is, we don’t always speak our minds, but we also don’t always know our minds. In other words, we don’t realize how we really feel or think about something always. Scientific psychologists developed IAT to understand this divergence.
The answer hinges on gender. Via Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb: And 333 Other Surprising Facts That Will Make You Wealthier, Healthier and Smarter Than Everyone Else : About 75 percent of marriages survive if the male is cheating, and about 65 percent survive if the female is having an affair. Marriages in which males cheat are more likely to survive, therapists say, because men are less likely than women to have an emotional attachment with their mistresses.
What percentage of marriages survive infidelity? What percentage survive cancer? - Barking up the wrong tree
ScienceDaily (Mar. 14, 2012) — Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain (in a good way) and strengthens the connections between brain cells. Now a further report by UCLA researchers suggests yet another benefit. Eileen Luders, an assistant professor at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and colleagues, have found that long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification ("folding" of the cortex, which may allow the brain to process information faster) than people who do not meditate. Further, a direct correlation was found between the amount of gyrification and the number of meditation years, possibly providing further proof of the brain's neuroplasticity, or ability to adapt to environmental changes. The article appears in the online edition of the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue.
Evidence builds that meditation strengthens the brain
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Is it the big things or little things in life that most determine out happiness? - Barking up the wrong tree
If I replaced your girlfriend with someone else, would you even notice? - Barking up the wrong tree
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The always interesting Psyblog brings the answers -- make specific plans to address the issues before you leave the office: In a series of studies researchers found that while trying to enjoy reading a novel (amongst other tasks), participants were frequently interrupted by intrusive thoughts about an unfinished everyday task (Masicampo & Baumeister, 2011). But when researchers told participants to make very specific plans about that unfinished goal, while reading they experienced less intrusive thoughts about the other activity. In fact the intrusive thoughts lessened to the same level as a control group.
How can you stop worrying about projects at work? - Barking up the wrong tree
Noise and music are more distracting to introverts at work
Many workplaces allow the playing of radio or recorded music during working hours, providing a chance to personalise and brighten the working climate. But how does music affect our ability to perform tasks at work? And does this depend on the kind of person we are? A recent study by a team from University College London sheds more light on this topic. Stacey Dobbs, Adrian Furnham and Alastair McClelland worked with 118 female schoolchildren (aged 11-18) to investigate how tasks that demand focus are influenced by different kinds of auditory distraction administered over headphones.
Can touching improve team performance? - Barking up the wrong tree
bakadesuyo ~ 1 year ago from Tweet Share Top Tweets Rating: ( +1 )Quand l'enfant acquiert « la théorie de l'esprit » - Jean-François Dortier, article Psychologie
La « théorie de l'esprit », soit la capacité à comprendre les intentions d'autrui, apparaît bien plus tôt chez l'enfant qu'on le pensait jusqu'alors. Une expérience récente semble le prouver et relance un débat vieux de trente ans. Face à un petit garçon, âgé de 15 mois, assis sur un tapis, une jeune femme manipule un jouet : une tranche de pastèque en plastique. Elle enferme le jouet dans l'une des deux boîtes, verte ou jaune, posées devant elle, puis s'absente.
How not to spot personality test fakers
Personality tests are an effective recruitment tool: higher scorers on conscientiousness and lower scorers on neuroticism tend to perform better in the job. But a major weakness of such tests is people's tendency to answer dishonestly. A study now shows that a popular approach to spotting cheaters is likely to be ineffective. This approach, which has gained momentum in the research literature, is to focus on applicants' response times. Honest test-takers show an inverted U-shaped response profile, being fast when they strongly agree or disagree with test items (these come in the form of statements about the self, such as "I pay attention to details"), and slower when they answer more equivocally.When is losing the route to winning? When you're losing by just a little. That's according to Jonah Berger and Devin Pope who think the paradoxical effect works because losing by a whisker is highly motivating. Berger and Pope began by studying over 18,000 NBA basketball games.
How losing can increase your chances of winning
What simple thing can help you communicate better, learn more and even enhance problem solving? - Barking up the wrong tree
We explored how speakers and listeners use hand gestures as a source of perceptual-motor information during naturalistic communication. After solving the Tower of Hanoi task either with real objects or on a computer, speakers explained the task to listeners. Speakers’ hand gestures, but not their speech, reflected properties of the particular objects and the actions that they had previously used to solve the task.Homme ou femme ? Jetons un œil !
Nos yeux seraient-ils capables de nous trahir au point de confondre un homme et une femme ? Et bien oui, d’après une étude très sérieuse. Tout dépendrait de la position de la personne dans notre champ de vision…santé
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Clown-doctors Could Help Dementia Sufferers
Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry ; Mental Health Article Date: 15 Apr 2010 - 4:00 PDT email to a friend printer friendly opinions 5 (1 votes) Bringing smiles and humour into hospital settings through clown doctors could help dementia sufferers. Dr Bernie Warren will present this and his other recent findings on the benefits of 'clown doctors' at the British Psychological Society's Annual Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon on 15th April 2010.After decades of seeing plants as passive recipients of fate, scientists have found them capable of behaviors once thought unique to animals. Some plants even appear to be social, favoring family while pushing strangers from the neighborhood. Research into plant sociality is still young, with many questions unanswered. But it may change how people conceive of the floral world, and provide new ways of raising productivity on Earth’s maxed-out farmlands.