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  • Empathy — minus reason?
    Empathy — minus reason?
    October 3, 2014 1 Comment on Empathy — minus reason?

    The Week

    “Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes,” writes author and prominent business-world thinker Daniel Pink. “Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”

    A lovely thought. But new research suggests it isn’t always true.

    A paper just published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin provides evidence that feelings of empathy toward a distressed person can inspire aggressive behaviour.

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  • What predicts a happy and fulfilled life?
    What predicts a happy and fulfilled life?
    September 4, 2014 Comments Off on What predicts a happy and fulfilled life?

    Art of Manliness –

    Nothing quite like the Grant Study has ever been attempted; as Vaillant puts it, this research represents “one of the first vantage points the world has ever had on which to stand and look prospectively at a man’s life from eighteen to ninety.” The mountains of data collected over more than seven decades have become a rich trove for examining what factors present in a man’s younger years best predict whether he will be successful and happy into old age.

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  • The impact of homework on children
    The impact of homework on children
    April 4, 2014 Comments Off on The impact of homework on children

    PsyBlog

    The authors conclude by saying:

    “Given the negative outcomes we find associated with more time spent on homework, our study calls into question the desirability of such diligence and the utility of assigning large quantities of homework in high-performing schools. […] any homework assigned should have a purpose and benefit, and it should be designed to cultivate learning and development.”

    It seems the horrible, wasteful, idiotic culture of pointless ‘busywork’ is alive in well in some high schools.

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  • What video games have to teach us about compulsive gambling.
    What video games have to teach us about compulsive gambling.
    April 1, 2014 Comments Off on What video games have to teach us about compulsive gambling.

    Guardian

    This strategy is known as a variable ratio schedule of reinforcement and is the same tactic used in slot machines; you can never predict when you’re going to win, but you win just often enough to keep you coming back for more.

    Steve Sharman, a Ph.D. student in psychology at the University of Cambridge researching gambling addiction, explains that the impression that we are in control of a game is key to its addictive nature and is vital when playing a slot machine, for example. “The illusion of control is a crucial element in the maintenance of gambling addiction … [as it] instills a feeling of skill or control,” he says.

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  • How to avoid loosing your mind…
    How to avoid loosing your mind…
    March 12, 2014 Comments Off on How to avoid loosing your mind…

    Science 2.0

    Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy of Gothenburg University previously analyzed Swedish men’s conscription results and were able to show a correlation between cardiovascular fitness as a teenager and health problems in later life. In a new paper based on data from 1.1 million young Swedish men, the Gothenburg researcher team shows that those with poorer cardiovascular fitness and/or lower IQ in their teenage years more often suffer from early-onset dementia.

    “Previous studies have shown the correlation between cardiovascular fitness and the risk of dementia in old age.

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  • The haunting scars of emotional neglect
    The haunting scars of emotional neglect
    February 25, 2014 Comments Off on The haunting scars of emotional neglect

    NPR

    Researchers began studying the children in Romanian orphanages after the nation’s brutal and repressive government was overthrown in 1989. At the time, there were more than 100,000 children in government institutions. And it soon became clear that many of them had stunted growth and a range of mental and emotional problems.

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  • The family that prays together…?
    The family that prays together…?
    November 2, 2013 Comments Off on The family that prays together…?

    Salon

    I was questioned earlier this week over a comment I made to a client that going to church alone would do little to protect marriage and that divorce rates were higher in the pews. That statement was both desperately right – and yet, the more I look at it, somewhat wrong.

    Now that I’ve done the research, I may as well post it…

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  • The real cost of your cute little bundle of joy.
    The real cost of your cute little bundle of joy.
    October 1, 2013 Comments Off on The real cost of your cute little bundle of joy.

    Yet even such huge figures are “woefully insufficient,�? says John Ward, a Kansas economist who consults on economic damages for legal disputes, including wrongful death cases involving children. For one thing, Ward says, most of these analyses do not take into account societal costs, such as the property taxes all homeowners pay to support public education.

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  • When legalism dies, people don’t…
    When legalism dies, people don’t…
    June 22, 2013 Comments Off on When legalism dies, people don’t…

    NY Times

    The magnitude of the decline in HPV infections surprised public health experts because only about a third of teenage girls in the United States have been vaccinated with the full course of three doses. By comparison, vaccination rates in countries like Denmark and Britain are above 80 percent.

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