Why Wait? The Science Behind Procrastination
WEBMar 29, 2013 · The idea is that procrastinators calculate the fluctuating utility of certain activities: pleasurable ones have more value early on, and tough tasks become more important as a deadline approaches. Psychologists like Ferrari and Pychyl, on the other hand, see flaws in such a strictly temporal view of procrastination.
Harlow’s Classic Studies Revealed the Importance of Maternal …
WEBJun 20, 2018 · Harry Harlow’s empirical work with primates is now considered a “classic” in behavioral science, revolutionizing our understanding of the role that social relationships play in early development.
The Psychological Study of Smiling
WEBFeb 11, 2011 · In a more recent study, published this year in Psychological Science, Ernest Abel and Michael Kruger of Wayne State University extended this line of research from emotional outcomes to a biological one: longevity. Abel and Kruger rated the smiles of professional baseball players captured in a 1952 yearbook, then …
The Bias Beneath: Two Decades of Measuring Implicit Associations
WEBFeb 1, 2018 · Over the last 20 years, millions of people have used an online test to probe attitudes they didn’t know they had. Since its online debut in 1998, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) has allowed people to discover potential prejudices that lurk beneath their awareness — and that researchers therefore wouldn’t find through participant self-reports.
‘He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not…’: Women Are More Attracted to …
WEBFeb 7, 2011 · The easiest relationships I’ve ever had were the ones where I was not as into the girl in the beginning as she was into me. As a result, all I had to do was respond to their messages or answer the phone when they called.
The Littlest Linguists: New Research on Language Development
WEBDec 29, 2021 · How do children learn language, and how is language related to other cognitive and social skills? For decades, the specialized field of developmental psycholinguistics has studied how children acquire language—or multiple languages—taking into account biological, neurological, and social factors that influence linguistic developments and, in turn, can play a role in how children learn and ...
How Culture Affects the Way We Think
WEBAug 1, 2007 · Wang’s research shows that culture affects the amount of detail one recalls, the reference to individuals themselves or other people and social context, and the ability to retrieve the memory after an elapsed time period. Wang said that “the remembering of the self is a cultural process that gives rise to both commonality and diversity in ...
How Technology Shapes Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
WEBJul 17, 2018 · In a Cross-Cutting Theme Program at the 30 th APS Annual Convention, speakers presented interdisciplinary work on the ways technology shapes learning, attention, behavior, and our social lives from childhood through old age. Technology Meets Neuroscience. Technology is allowing neuroscientist Melina Uncapher of University of California, San ...
‘I Feel Your Pain’: The Neuroscience of Empathy
WEBDec 29, 2017 · In the past, this might have been explained simply as empathy, the ability to experience the feelings of others, but over the last 20 years, neuroscientists have been able to pinpoint some of the specific regions of the brain responsible for this sense of interconnectedness. Five scientists discussed the neuroscience behind how we process the ...
The Mechanics of Choice - Association for Psychological Science
WEBDec 28, 2011 · Psychological scientists have been interested in how people make decisions for several decades, but philosophers and economists have been studying decision making for centuries. The most famous scholarly consideration of making a decision in cases when all the facts aren’t on hand is that of Blaise Pascal. In 1670, in his Pensées, the French ...
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