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
A blog by Prof. Dante Pirouz, a consumer behavior researcher at the Ivey Business School - University of Western Ontario, who specializes in understanding why our brain and body drive us to consume what we do and what we consumers can do about it.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Helicopter Parenting? Maybe Not Such A Bad Thing...
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