Category: Studies
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Empathy Endangered?
Read more: Empathy Endangered?Headline: Shocker: Empathy Dropped 40% in College Students Since 2000. Without unstructured free time with playmates, children simply don’t get to know each other very well. And you can’t learn to connect and care if you don’t practice these things. Free play declined by at least a third between 1981 and 2003–right when the kids…
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Brain Weight Regained
Read more: Brain Weight RegainedPsychCentral again: Brain Changes with Anorexia Can Be Reversed. [With anorexia,] the excessive weight loss occurs from all human tissues, including the brain. A new study discovers that with appropriate treatment, adult brain volume can be regained.
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Kids See, Kids Do
Read more: Kids See, Kids DoA study at PsychCentral: Modeling Behavior for Children Has Long-Lasting Effects. For the experiments, the children were shown how to open a box — but in a complicated way, with impractical actions thrown in. For example, the adult would drag a stick across a box, then use a stick to open the box by pulling…
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Forgiveness v. Procrastination
Read more: Forgiveness v. ProcrastinationFrom PsyBlog: Procrastinate Less By Forgiving Yourself: Because we tend to avoid things that make us feel bad, pent up guilt about a task will make us avoid that task in the future. Self-forgiveness, though, may reduce guilt and so make us more likely to approach the task.
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Exercise and Sleep
Read more: Exercise and SleepFrom the NYT: Does Exercise Help You Sleep Better? Maybe, maybe not. [T]he most practical advice that science can offer at the moment about exercise and sleep is not to fret too much about whether you’re getting enough of either. Worrying, as the Swiss study showed, is what will keep you awake long into the…