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- 1From:Inc. (Vol. 44, Issue 4)Our species adopted a host of cogn itive strategies to survive and thrive. These lessons can help you avoid their pitfalls. WHEN I WAS a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, doing...
- 2From:Psychology Today (Vol. 54, Issue 3)Mental health doesn't just happen. Like physical fitness, it takes effort. Three principles spell the difference between just surviving and outright thriving. LIFE, GOES THE SAYING, is like a diamond--hard and...
- 3From:Men's Health (Vol. 32, Issue 4)Q: Hey, doc, I feel smarter in the morning. What's up with that? A: Like around 11 a.m.? That's when most people reach peak cognition. Your brain worked on unsolved problems while you slept, and some toxins got...
- 4From:Public Management (Vol. 99, Issue 4)A 2016 PM commentary ("Why College Students Need Managers to Teach" by Raymond Cox, September 2016) stressed the importance of managers in the classroom. Justifications for bringing them into the classroom included the...
- 5From:The Economist (Vol. 422, Issue 9023)As people age, the brain changes in both good ways and bad IF YOU ARE over 20, look away now. Your cognitive performance is probably already on the wane. The speed with which people can process information declines...
- 6From:The Economist (Vol. 325, Issue 7788)Skinner's experiments with rats and pigeons in boxes were designed to measure learning and behavior modification. His work differed significantly from Ivan Pavlov's. Despite criticism from peers, Skinner made important...
- 7From:SuccessA racing heart, sweaty palms and shortness of breath: The familiar symptoms of anxiety can strike anytime. Giving a speech to a packed auditorium can leave you queasy and lightheaded, but so can less significant...
- 8From:Training: the Magazine of Human Resources Development (Vol. 26, Issue 5)Cognitive ability and general intelligence are once again hot topics in the field of human resources development. Intelligence in the work environment is often defined as the ability to think abstractly, solve problems,...
- 9From:Spirituality & Health MagazineByline: Monika Rice p>What would your favorite perfume smell like if it came in a plastic bottle labeled bug spray? Probably not as sweet, says a team of researchers from the Department of Experimental Psychology at...
- 10From:Technology Review (Vol. 99, Issue 2)Knowledge from ergonomics, cognitive and ecological psychology can provide valuable approaches to make interactive products easier to use. Animators and dramatists can also contribute in the design process especially in...
- 11From:The Hearing Review (Vol. 20, Issue 11)Bioengineers at the University of Utah have discovered our understanding of language may depend more heavily on vision than previously thought: under the right conditions, what you see can override what you hear. These...
- 12From:Technology Review (Vol. 92, Issue 1)Mind Meets Brain Scientists in two of psychology's major branches traditionally have had little to say to each other. Cognitive psychologists focus on processes like seeing and thinking without caring much about how...
- 13From:GPIron deficiency in infancy leads to cognitive problems that persist into adulthood, research from Costa Rica has shown. A study of 185 individuals followed-up from birth to the age of 19 years showed that those with...
- 14From:The Economist (Vol. 371, Issue 8380)Bilingual bright old things Bilingualism may protect the mind from deterioration in old age IT IS certainly useful to be able to speak more than one language. But, according to a paper by Ellen Bialystok, of York...
- 15From:Rock Products (Vol. 118, Issue 8)A popular "big picture" management recommendation suggests that management focus should be on the highly critical issues that have potentially broad effect and if not addressed properly may have potentially catastrophic...
- 16From:New Statesman (Vol. 141, Issue 5122)An intellectual pestilence is upon us. Shop shelves groan with books purporting to explain, through snazzy brain-imaging studies, not only how thoughts and emotions function, but how politics and religion work, and what...
- 17From:Illinois Bar Journal (Vol. 98, Issue 6)A tired brain, preoccupied with its problems, is going to struggle to resist what it wants, even when what it wants isn't what we need. --Jonah Lehrer (1) Can I have another piece of chocolate cake --Crowded...
- 18From:Psychology Today (Vol. 45, Issue 4)WHEN IT COMES time for a job interview, most of us know to dress the part. But it's not only the effect on our potential employers we should be thinking about. Recent research suggests that our clothes don't influence...
- 19From:Psychology Today (Vol. 36, Issue 5)Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, comes out swinging in defense of Darwin with his latest book, The Blank Slate (in paperback this September from Penguin USA). This Harvard-based proponent of evolutionary psychology...
- 20From:Prepared Foods (Vol. 117, Issue 4)One of the key contributing characteristics that appear in aging and age-related health conditions is a loss of the membrane integrity making up human tissue, particularly in the brain and cardiovascular system. These...