Monthly Archives: April 2009
Bullies Beware, Girls Will Kick Your Heiny
A new study from the University of Florida indicates that girls are a schoolyard victim’s best protection against bullies. Turns out that while boys are more likely to be bullies, girls are more likely to defend those being bullied, contrary … Continue reading
Filed under About Research
How a Checklist Can Postpone Your Bucket List
Filed under the category ”humans make bigtime mistakes” is a study that came out earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine about the results of using surgery safety checklists at major urban hospitals around the world. The results, in … Continue reading
Filed under About Research
Eating, Emotions and Control…with Mom in the Middle
A study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health suggests that mom is going to be blamed for something else when the kids get old enough to complain about their upbringing. In the first research project in the world to analyze children’s eating … Continue reading
Filed under About Research
Does Your TV Give You the Warm Fuzzies?
Do you ever look forward to cuddling up with your television and spending a nice, quiet evening together – just the two of you? Turns out, the relationships you have with characters in your favorite shows may be giving you … Continue reading
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Riding the Self-Regulation See Saw
by David DiSalvo The April issue of Psychological Science includes an interesting paradoxical study on moral self-regulation. Building on previous research that examines why people act altruistically even when such action is costly, researchers wanted to take a closer look at the … Continue reading
Filed under About Morality, About Research
Can You Outsmart Your Genes? An Interview with Author Richard Nisbett
While the debate over intelligence rages on many fronts, the battle over the importance of heredity rages loudest. It’s easy to see why. If the camp that argues intelligence is 75 to 85 percent genetically determined is correct, then we’re … Continue reading
Filed under About Intelligence, Interviews
Who Are Really the Loneliest People?
Social neuroscientist John Cacioppo recently gave a talk on the topic of loneliness for the Zócalo Public Square Lecture Series. Cacioppo was interviewed here on Neuronarrative not long ago about his research and had several interesting things to say, especially about the physiological effects of … Continue reading
Filed under About Neuroscience, Videos
David DiSalvo is a science, technology and culture writer whose work appears in Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today and a variety of other places.
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