Neurophilosophy. The Danger of Hypersexual Disorder. Psychology of Color « Miss Centsible. Economy tracker: Unemployment. 19 March 2014Last updated at 06:42 ET Continue reading the main story Latest news: The number of people out of work fell by 63,000 to 2.33 million in the three months to January, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The unemployment rate of the economically active population is 7.2%, and the number of people in work is 30.19 million. Mind = Blown. 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself. Talking to Yourself Makes You Smarter. One Per Cent: Twitter reveals effects of the recession on public mood.
Jacob Aron, technology reporter (Image: Geoffrey Robinson/Rex Features) Social media such as Twitter and the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) network were partially to blame for the riots which swept across the UK last summer, but now a new analysis of British tweets reveals that the public mood was turning long before the first riot took place.
Thomas Lansdall-Welfare and colleagues at the University of Bristol measured the emotional content of 484 million tweets from between July 2009 and January 2012, organising them into four lists: joy, fear, anger and sadness. It is not the first time researchers have analysed tweets in this way, but the Bristol team wanted to see if particular events were reflected in the emotions on Twitter, rather than just general sentiments. Their analysis found that certain annual events always result in a spike of emotion each year.
The researchers also found other changes connected to one-off events. Conservative Politics, 'Low-Effort' Thinking Linked In New Study. Conservatives and liberals don't seem to agree about much, and they might not agree about recent studies linking conservatism to low intelligence and "low-effort" thinking. As The Huffington Post reported in February, a study published in the journal "Psychological Science" showed that children who score low on intelligence tests gravitate toward socially conservative political views in adulthood--perhaps because conservative ideologies stress "structure and order" that make it easier to understand a complicated world.
Ouch. And now there's the new study linking conservative ideologies to "low-effort" thinking. "People endorse conservative ideology more when they have to give a first or fast response," the study's lead author, University of Arkansas psychologist Dr. Scott Eidelman, said in a written statement released by the university. Does the finding suggest that conservatives are lazy thinkers? "Not quite," Dr. For the study, a team of psychologists led by Dr. What women really want (wowzone.com) WOW Stories Wish Only Well. Why Adele's 'Someone Like You' Makes Everyone Cry. Shame on the Rich. 10 common gestures easily misunderstood abroad. Feature Photo : Striatic Photo: Marcusrg Frequent travelers must be great at charades.
When you need to communicate and you don’t have the luxury of a shared language, body language is invaluable. A skilled traveler can negotiate a taxi, buy food in a market, and get directions from a stranger through hand motions alone. Things can get lost in translation, though, when a typical gesture from your country means something completely different in other parts of the world. Below are ten common North American gestures that can cause offense abroad. The Picture Overflow at Kontraband - Page 35 - StumbleUpon. Effective Ways To Get Out of a Negative Mindset. Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Mind. Psychology Tests & Surveys.
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The top 5 regrets people have on their deathbeds - Lifehacks. When Ms.
Bronnie Ware, a woman who worked for years with the dying, wrote a list of the top 5 regrets people say aloud on their deathbed, we teared up a little bit here at TNW. She posted the top 5 regrets along with her commentary on her website, and we’ve recopied them for you here below. But instead of just the grandmotherly bits of advice about dreams having gone unfulfilled, we’ve supplemented each regret with some rockstar advice on how to not have these regrets in the digital age. Connecting sound and meaning in words. For more than 100 years the standard view among traditional language theorists was that, with the exception of onomatopoeia like "fizz" and "beep," the sound of a word tells us nothing about how it is used.
This seemingly arbitrary relationship between words and their meaning in human language is hailed as singular to our species. A new Cornell study takes that view to task. How willpower works - Health & wellness. DISCERN Artificial Neural Network - How to Build a Schizophrenic Computer. Schizophrenia is one of the most infamous and mysterious mental disorders.
Attempting to get to the root of the problem, scientists recently came up with an extraordinary solution: They built a schizophrenic computer. In a study published in the online version of Biological Psychiatry in March, researchers altered an artificial neural network capable of learning language and stories, to the point where it started "acting" schizophrenic. Psychology. Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours. Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Mind.
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