Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Helicopter Parenting? Maybe Not Such A Bad Thing...

The new adulthood: Extended parental support as a safety net

ScienceDaily (2011-03-15) -- A new study shows that contrary to popular anxieties about slacker young adults who refuse to grow up, or indulgent parents who stifle their adult children’s development by continuing to support them, there is evidence that parental assistance in early adulthood promotes progress toward autonomy and self-reliance. ... > read full article

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Text Message Interruptions Can Curb That Crave

Text messaging helps smokers break the habit: Studies demonstrate brain activity link and use a new technology to monitor smoking

ScienceDaily (2011-03-07) -- New studies have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness of text-messaging to measure and intervene in those urges. ... > read full article

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Cross-Gender Comparisons Can Bring You Down!?

Social Comparisons In Early Childhood

ScienceDaily (2008-10-30) -- Previous research has shown that preschoolers maintain positive self-evaluations and high levels of performance even when they see that their peers have out-performed them. However, new research suggests that preschoolers are very sensitive to gender information. These findings reveal that when preschoolers see that they have performed more poorly than a peer of the other gender -- even just one time -- there are lasting negative consequences on behavior and self-concept. ... > read full article

Abstract vs. Concrete Thoughts Make the Difference in Whether We Procrastinate

Why We Procrastinate And How To Stop

ScienceDaily (2009-01-12) -- Psychologists wanted to see if there might be a link between how we think about a task and our tendency to postpone it. It turns out, the students who thought about the questions abstractly were much more likely to procrastinate. By contrast, those who were focused on the how, when and where of doing the task e-mailed their responses much sooner, suggesting that they started the assignment right away rather than procrastinating. ... > read full article

Should We Teach Honesty and Humility in B-Schools? Link to Better Performance

Higher job performance linked to people who are more honest and humble

ScienceDaily (2011-03-01) -- The more honesty and humility an employee may have, the higher their job performance, as rated by the employees' supervisor. A new study that found the honesty-humility personality trait was a unique predictor of job performance. ... > read full article