Category: Studies
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Study: Video Games Are Good For You
Read more: Study: Video Games Are Good For YouVideo Games Boost Brain Power, Multitasking Skills (NPR) Pratt says playing these video games changes your ability to learn, and to find and integrate new information. “Video game players are able to pick up very subtle, statistical irregularities in environments and use them to their advantage,” Pratt says. “And these same irregularities in environments are…
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Siblings Split
Read more: Siblings SplitTheories about how siblings develop such different personalities (NPR). “Children in the same family are more similar than children taken at random from the population,” Plomin says, “but not much more.” In fact, in terms of personality, we are similar to our siblings only about 20 percent of the time.
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Mastery v. Performance
Read more: Mastery v. PerformancePsychCental: Personal Goal-Setting Strategy Affects Relationships According to investigators, goal-setting behavior may influence whether people will be comfortable in sharing and communicating. For example, people with “mastery goals” want to improve themselves. Maybe they want to get better grades, make more sales, or land that triple toe loop. On the other hand, people with what psychologists call “performance…
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Persuasion
Read more: PersuasionPsyBlog looks at thinking v. feeling when trying to persuade. [I]f you want to persuade someone, then it’s useful to know whether they are a thinker or a feeler and target your message accordingly. If you don’t already know then the easiest way to find out is listen for whether they describe the world cognitively…
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Living in the Moment
Read more: Living in the MomentA app-based study supports mindfulness as a route to happiness. “A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind,” wrote psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University who used an iPhone web app to gather 250,000 data points on people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions as they…