The Guardian: Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw4fHexjU https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/25/no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child-einstein-iq Eye-opening spin-off research, which looked in detail at 24 of the 3,000 individuals being studied who were succeeding against the odds, found something remarkable about what was going in at home. Half were on free school mealsContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/93310922/the-psychology-of-climate-change-denial-why-sceptics-refuse-to-believe-the-science Some sceptics will never be convinced – and the scientists say they may be best ignored. “There are the extreme views where nothing you say makes any difference, and they’ll just make up reasons to believe what they want to believe. That’s what we find. And it’s just pointlessContinue Reading
http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/inside-mind-troll-psychology-behind-vicious-trolling-women-face-online-61147 In 2014, three Canadian researchers ran online personality assessments on 1200 people through a survey to examine their internet commenting styles. It was found that trolling strongly associates with seeking pleasure from an act of cruelty. We call it sadism, but here we’d call it ‘everyday sadism’, giving itContinue Reading
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/former-afp-psychologists-call-for-agency-to-reinstate-peer-support-program-20170331-gvb3o4.html Former Australian Federal Police psychologists are calling on the agency to reinstate a peer support program they say was crucial to internal mental health support. The push is supported by mental health experts and the federal police union. Lacey Clews and Heidi Horvath were psychologists with the AFP forContinue Reading
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/uber-drivers-psychological-tricks.html?_r=1 To keep drivers on the road, the company has exploited some people’s tendency to set earnings goals – alerting them that they are ever so close to hitting a precious target when they try to log off. It has even concocted an algorithm similar to a Netflix feature thatContinue Reading
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nurturing-self-compassion/201703/the-psychology-hate Lack of self-compassion The antidote to hate is compassion—for others as well as ourselves. Self-compassion means that we accept the whole self. “If we find part of ourselves unacceptable, we tend to attack others in order to defend against the threat” says Reedy. “If we are okay with ourselves,Continue Reading
How being creative feels to us and the actual progress we’re making can be two different things. https://t.co/sBYnZRHrMk — Psychology Today (@PsychToday) March 7, 2017 The studies demonstrated under-prediction of the “creative yield” that might be achieved through persistence across many different types of creative tasks. Why do we showContinue Reading
Sound-meaning similarities found across thousands of languages https://t.co/2bW7we9Cei — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) February 19, 2017 “These sound symbolic patterns show up again and again across the world, independent of the geographical dispersal of humans and independent of language lineage,” said Morten H. Christiansen, professor of psychology and director of Cornell’s CognitiveContinue Reading
Simple test tells you if you’re racist http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11702669 Even when the applicant is not there in person, discrimination can happen. A 2011 study into discrimination quotes a woman from Sydney who was called Ragda Ali. “After completing TAFE in 2005 I applied for many junior positions where no experience inContinue Reading
Anti-torture reforms opposed within psychology group after damning report http://t.co/yFqxEnvVpl — Kyle MacDonald (@kylemacd) August 13, 2015Continue Reading
