psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles/2013-10250-001.pdf Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Social Neuroscience Trouble Understanding Others? Read More Fiction | Head Smart | Global Cognition Looking for an excuse to read more fiction? Fiction reading can help with understanding others. A recent study shows that children who read more fiction stories are better at inferring what other people are thinking and feeling. Being good at understanding others is important, not just for psychologists. Think about this. What does a preschooler bringing their pet rock to class for show and tell have in common with a defense attorney making a closing argument to a jury, a branch manager presenting an idea about how to increase next quarter’s profits, and a creative director pondering a slogan for a new product line? They all fare better if they can predict their audience’s reactions. Understanding Others and Fiction Understanding others is not something we’re taught in school. Unfortunately, merely being exposed to people doesn’t automatically help you understand them. Luckily, there is one way you can see and experience what other people are thinking and feeling; by reading fiction books.
Communication Skills Course in an Indian Undergraduate Dental Curriculum: A Randomized Controlled Trial Sunila B. Sangappa, M.D.S., P.G.D.H.P.E.⇑ and Ara Tekian, Ph.D., M.H.P.E. + Author Affiliations Direct correspondence and requests for reprints to Dr. This study assessed the impact of a course on communication skills for third-year undergraduate dental students at a dental institute in India. PsycARTICLES - Subjective responses to emotional stimuli during labeling, reappraisal, and distraction. Method Overview Study 2 was similar to Study 1 except for two additions. First, there was an added reappraisal condition in which participants actively tried to diminish their emotional responses to the target images by generating new, less distressing ways of thinking about the content of the images. Adding this condition allows for a comparison of affect labeling and reappraisal in three ways: (a) what are the relative magnitudes of their effects? (b) are the effects of each, relative to attending to the images, correlated with one another? The second change to this design involved adding another group of predictors. Participants Forty-six right-handed undergraduates (20 males, mean age = 20.3, SD = 1.69) at the University of California, Los Angeles participated for class credit. Procedure “Experiencers” in Study 2 (N = 31) viewed neutral and unpleasant pictures in blocks of five trials as described in Study 1. Label and watch trials were identical to those in Study 1. Figure 3.
PsycARTICLES - Happiness is best kept stable: Positive emotion variability is associated with poorer psychological health. Happiness is best kept stable: Positive emotion variability is associated with poorer psychological health. By Gruber, June; Kogan, Aleksandr; Quoidbach, Jordi; Mauss, Iris B. Emotion, Vol 13(1), Feb 2013, 1-6. Abstract Positive emotion has been shown to be associated with adaptive outcomes in a number of domains, including psychological health. However, research has largely focused on overall levels of positive emotion with less attention paid to how variable versus stable it is across time.
Using Money to Buy Happiness We live in America with two bits of contradictory received wisdom — that you’d be a lot better off if you made more money, and that money can’t buy you happiness. Now two scholars suggest another way of thinking about the relationship between cash and joy: To a large degree, how you spend is just as important as how much you spend. Michael Norton, an associate professor at Harvard Business School and coauthor – with Elizabeth Dunn – of Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. Gareth Cook: What is the biggest misconception people have about the relationship between money and happiness? Michael Norton: One of the things that my coauthor Liz Dunn and I hear again and again when we ask people about money and happiness is a simple phrase: more is better. Cook: You write that people should “buy experiences.” Buying experiences, in comparison, does seem to create more happiness for every dollar spent.
A Year of Research Blogging One of the best parts about my job as editor of ResearchBlogging.org is working with a dedicated group of editors who help identify the best research blogging on the internet. In addition to fourteen editors who verify that each registered blog meets our standards, we also have four content editors—specialists to select the most notable individual blog posts in their areas of expertise each week—Jarrett Byrnes, Vincent Racaniello, Travis Saunders, and the anonymous “Dr. SkySkull.” After their first six months of culling out the very best work of research bloggers across the disciplines, I thought it would be worthwhile to ask our content editors for their thoughts about the past year in research blogging, and what they see as emerging trends in the future. Please tell me a bit about yourself, your blog, and your research interests.Vincent Racaniello: I’ve been Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University since 1982. Dr. Racaniello: Blogging has increased.
This Examined Life: The Upside of Self-Knowledge for Interpersonal Relationships Although self-knowledge is an unquestioned good in many philosophical traditions, testing this assumption scientifically has posed a challenge because of the difficulty of measuring individual differences in self-knowledge. In this study, we used a novel, naturalistic, and objective criterion to determine individuals’ degree of self-knowledge. Specifically, self-knowledge was measured as the congruence between people’s beliefs about how they typically behave and their actual behavior as measured with unobtrusive audio recordings from daily life. We found that this measure of self-knowledge was positively correlated with informants’ perceptions of relationship quality. Figures Citation: Tenney ER, Vazire S, Mehl MR (2013) This Examined Life: The Upside of Self-Knowledge for Interpersonal Relationships. Editor: Tricia A. Received: February 2, 2013; Accepted: June 10, 2013; Published: July 31, 2013 Copyright: © 2013 Tenney et al. Introduction What good is self-knowledge? The Current Study
BMC Psychiatry | Abstract | Neuropsychological functioning in inpatients with major depression or schizophrenia Research article Annette Schaub1*, Nicole Neubauer2, Kim T Mueser3, Rolf Engel1 and Hans-Jürgen Möller1 * Corresponding author: Annette Schaub annette.schaub@med.uni-muenchen.de Author Affiliations 1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Munich, Nußbaumstr 7, D-80336, Munich, Germany 2 Psychological Psychotherapy, Rheinstr 30, 80803, Munich, Germany 3 Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University, 940 Commonwealth Avenue West, Boston, MA 02215, USA For all author emails, please log on. BMC Psychiatry 2013, 13:203 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-13-203 Published: 2 August 2013 Abstract Background Studies that compare neuropsychological functioning in inpatients with mood disorder or schizophrenia come to heterogeneous results. Method We were interested in evaluating impairment in specific areas of cognitive functioning in patients with schizophrenia or depression. Results Conclusions Keywords: close Sign up to receive new article alerts from BMC Psychiatry
Mark Granovetter Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Mark Granovetter est un sociologue américain, né en 1943 à Jersey City, de l’université Stanford[1], considéré comme l'un des principaux représentants de la sociologie des réseaux sociaux. Idées majeures[modifier | modifier le code] Liens forts et Liens faibles[modifier | modifier le code] Son apport à la recherche le plus connu concerne la diffusion de l'information dans une communauté : Sa théorie est connue sous le nom de la « force des liens faibles » (Strength of weak ties, 1973)[2]. Cet article de 1973 sur la "force des liens faibles" est l'un des plus cités de la littérature sociologique. Les liens forts sont ceux que l'on a avec des amis proches (il s'agit de relations soutenues et fréquentes). Les liens faibles sont faits de simples connaissances. Les liens absents sont eux caractérisés par une absence d'interaction. Triade impossible[modifier | modifier le code] Concept d'encastrement[modifier | modifier le code]
How Not Talking About Conflict Could Help a Marriage Last It’s a familiar mantra that marriage counselors rely upon in advising their couples — talk about conflicts and try to resolve them, rather than letting suppressed feelings fester until they poison a relationship beyond repair. But is that such good advice? Most spouses are familiar with what marriage experts call the demand-withdraw cycle — one spouse blames or pressures his partner for some kind of change and the partner avoids the discussion, either by changing or distracting attention from the subject (avoiding) or by leaving the room or refusing to talk (withdrawing). (MORE: Is There Hope for the American Marriage?) This dynamic can become an unhealthy cancer in a relationship that only tends to grow and further separate spouses from communicating. But a new study suggests that the avoidance part of the pattern may not be as damaging as counselors once thought — at least not for long-married couples over age 60. (MORE: Why Marriage Is Good for Your Health — Until You Get Sick)
Reading facial expressions of emotion David Matsumoto, is Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University and Director of Humintell, LLC. He has studied culture, nonverbal behavior, and emotion for over 30 years and has published over 120 journal articles in peer-reviewed, scientific journals. His books include Culture and Psychology, the Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology, and Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology. He is the recipient of many awards and honors in the field of psychology, including being named a G. Hyi Sung Hwang, is a Research Scientist at Humintell, LLC. Emotions are an incredibly important aspect of human life and basic research on emotions of the past few decades has produced several discoveries that have led to important real world applications. Two Important Scientific Discoveries The Universality of Facial Expressions of Emotion Arguably the most important contribution basic science has made to our understanding of emotion concerns the universality of facial expressions of emotion.