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May
27
2011

  • “Our results indicate that beliefs about free will can change brain processes related to a very basic motor level,” wrote researchers led by psychologist Davide Rigoni of Italy’s University of Padova in a study published in May’s Psychological Science.
  • Tested on when they decided to press the button, the non-free-will group reported doing so a fraction of a second before their counterparts. To lose confidence in free will seemingly introduced a lag between conscious choice and action.
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  • 1) at least one of the tasks is so well learned as to be automatic, meaning no focus or thought is necessary to engage in the task (e.g., driving) and 2) they involve different types of brain processing. For example, you can read effectively while listening to classical music because reading comprehension and processing instrumental music engage different parts of the brain. However, your ability to retain information while reading and listening to music with lyrics declines significantly because both tasks activate the language center of the brain.
  • A recent article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by three Stanford University researchers offers perhaps the most surprising result: those who consider themselves to be great multitaskers are in fact the worst multitaskers. Those who rated themselves as chronic multitaskers made more mistakes, could remember fewer items, and took longer to complete a variety of focusing tasks analogous to multitasking than those self-rated as infrequent multitaskers.
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Feb
23
2011

  • Our results show that memory consolidation during sleep indeed involves a basic selection process that determines which of the many pieces of the day's information are sent to long-term storage. Our findings also indicate that information relevant for future demands is selected foremost for storage.
Feb
7
2011

  • Einschlafkrise in Amerikas Babybettchen: Als der Kabelanbieter, der den Sender BabyFirst in seinem Repertoire hat, letztes Jahr für ein paar Stunden in der Nacht sein Programm aussetzen musste, kam es in vielen Familien zum Ausnahmezustand.
Nov
30
2010

  • Our findings show that oxytocin, a neuropeptide functioning as both a neurotransmitter and hormone, plays a critical role in driving in-group love and defensive (but not offensive) aggression toward out-groups. Perhaps offensive forms of out-group hate have their biological roots elsewhere, or perhaps these tendencies are primarily grounded in perceived in-group love and protectionism in competing out-groups. After all, if competing out-groups become strong and powerful, they become a threat to the in-group, and this in and of itself not only motivates in-group members to display in-group love but also motivates protectionism and preemptive strike. As shown here, this “tend and defend” form of parochial altruism is precisely what oxytocin modulates.

  • humans are successful as a species precisely because of our nurturing,  altruistic and compassionate traits
  • One recent study found compelling evidence that many of us are genetically  predisposed to be empathetic.
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  • New insight comes from a study published in Personality and Social Psychology, which  suggests that leaders emerge through a combination of their own outspoken  behaviour, and how this outspoken behaviour is perceived by others.
  • Anderson and Kilduff's research showed is that there is a big gap between the  actual competence of leaders and the way in which they are perceived by the  others.
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  • When we're in a  group other people have an incredibly powerful effect on us. Groups can  kill our creativity, inspire us to work harder, allow us to slack off, skew our  decision-making and make us clam up.
  • Once we are in a group it starts to shape us through conformity,  pulling our attitudes and behaviour in line with others, threatening us with  ostracism if we dare to rebel and, when facing rival groups, firing our  competitive spirit
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  • "Our research indicates that excessive internet use is associated with  depression, but what we don't know is which comes first – are depressed people  drawn to the internet or does the internet cause depression?" the article's lead  author, Dr Catriona Morrison, said.
  • They also discovered that addicts spent proportionately more time browsing  sexually gratifying websites, online gaming sites and online communities.

  • ◊ For insight: Try imagining your creative task as distant and  disconnected from your current location. This should encourage higher level  thinking.
  • ◊ For insight: Project yourself forward in time; view your  creative task from one, ten or a hundred years distant.
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  • They found that distraction leads to boredom (not the other way around). This  displays that we must cut out distraction in order to get focused; or else,  we’ll get bored.
  • Scientists also found that we can only focus on one thing at once.
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  • 1. Counterfactual mindset
  • In a counter-intuitive study, however, Kurtz and Lowenstein  (2007) found that having two problems rather than one made it more likely  that participants would recall problems they'd solved before, which helped them  solve the current problem.
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