If you’re experiencing an attention deficit, you’re far from alone.
Month: March 2015
Self-Loathing Wins Championships
A video of a German tennis star berating himself is the key to understanding sports psychology.
Study Challenges Popular Perception of New ‘Hookup Culture’ On College Campuses
A University of Portland study challenges the popular perception that there is a “new and pervasive hookup culture” among contemporary college students.
The messiahs of marriage?
A counsellor may offer insights into a relationship, but saving the marriage? That’s the couple’s job.
Why do girls check out other girls?
Admit it, many straight women spend more time checking each other out than they do the opposite sex. Julia Oliphant asks why we’re so obsessed with analysing what she wears, how she dances, what she eats … (the list could go on).
Schools try new strategies to battle college drinking
Colleges have been under pressure to keep students safe since the early 1980s, when the national drinking age was increased to 21, making it illegal for half of the undergraduate population to drink.
The Real Neuroscience of Creativity
So yea, you know how the left brain is really realistic, analytical, practical, organized, and logical, and the right brain is so darn creative, passionate, sensual, tasteful, colorful, vivid, and poetic?
No.
Just no.
Stop it.
Please.
Playing Video Games Can Boost Brain Power
Certain types of video games can help to train the brain to become more agile and improve strategic thinking, according to scientists from Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL).
More Siblings Means Less Chance of Divorce as Adult
Growing up with siblings may provide some protection against divorce as an adult, a new nationwide study reveals.
And the more siblings, the better: Each additional sibling a person has (up to about seven) reduces the likelihood of divorce by 2 percent.
Preschoolers Inability to Estimate Quantity Relates to Later Math Difficulty
Preschool children who showed less ability to estimate the number of objects in a group were 2.4 times more likely to have a later mathematical learning disability than other young people, according to a team of University of Missouri psychologists. Parents may be able to help their children develop their skills at approximating group sizes by emphasizing numerals while interacting with young children.