Author: Elizabeth Landau
Publication Name: CNN
Date of Publication: Feb. 10, 2009
Summary:
In a study made by Ryan Howell, assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State University, found that experience provides more happiness than possessions. Getting 154 people to answer questions about their recent purchase. The ones that wrote about an experience tend to show more satisfaction. The ones that talked about a experience also talked about the effects and impact it had on other people, for example being able to get closer to family. Life experience also has a positive react to other people because experiences are tending to shared with other people. People are able to fulfill a need of social bonding when they spend time together on a experience compared to buying a new item for their household.
Another reason why experiences tends to make peoples more happy is that, it makes people 'feel alive'. A item makes people happy for one to three months as they adapt to it. Once they have adapted to it, it becomes a part of the house and nothing more. Experience becomes memories and stays with the person for years to come. Some people also point out that people are less self-conscious about talking about their experience compared to their possessions. Since people would feel as bad when they are trips, than if they were compare their new tv.
However a gift can also be an experience on its own and can add to the feel as people look at it as a token of their experience. It is the memories that are important and make the sentimental value increase over time.
Links to Study: Cannot be found
Article: www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/10/happiness.possessions/index.html#cnnSTCText
Submitted By: Hai Vo
Showing posts with label 07 Memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 07 Memory. Show all posts
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Memory Problems more Common in Men?
AUTHOR: Science Daily/ American Academy of Neurology
PUBLICATION NAME: sciencedaily.com
DATE OF PUBLICATION: September 07, 2010.
SUMMARY:
Recent studies show that Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) affect men more than women. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a condition when people have troubles with memory or thinking clearly. In the study, 2,050 people between the ages of 70 to 89 in Olmstead County, Minn were tested on their memory and thinking skills. The results from the test concluded that MCI was founded 1.5 times higher in men than in women. Usually, MCI leads to Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer’s disease is usually found in elderly people and it is a brain disease that destroys memory and thinking skills. They also did a study on which gender was more likely to have Dementia. Dementia is a brain disease that affects memory, thinking, language, judgment and behavior. In the study, 14 percent of the participants had MCI, 10 percent had Dementia and 76 of the participants had normal memory and thinking skills. The study reflected that 19 percent of men had MCI when only 14 percent of women had it. The study also stated that people who are in low education have a higher chance of getting MCI. This was the first study that dealt with the community of both genders to find MCI. As the study of MCI progresses, Ronald Petersen, MD, PhD, with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn believe that other results of diseases have to do with gender.
The results of the tests made a public health impact because of these conditions. The conditions of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia resulted in finding new treatments.
LINKS TO STUDY: No Original Links to Study.
ARTICLE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100906202854.htm
SUBMITTED BY: Erikacamisse Diaz
PUBLICATION NAME: sciencedaily.com
DATE OF PUBLICATION: September 07, 2010.
SUMMARY:
Recent studies show that Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) affect men more than women. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a condition when people have troubles with memory or thinking clearly. In the study, 2,050 people between the ages of 70 to 89 in Olmstead County, Minn were tested on their memory and thinking skills. The results from the test concluded that MCI was founded 1.5 times higher in men than in women. Usually, MCI leads to Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer’s disease is usually found in elderly people and it is a brain disease that destroys memory and thinking skills. They also did a study on which gender was more likely to have Dementia. Dementia is a brain disease that affects memory, thinking, language, judgment and behavior. In the study, 14 percent of the participants had MCI, 10 percent had Dementia and 76 of the participants had normal memory and thinking skills. The study reflected that 19 percent of men had MCI when only 14 percent of women had it. The study also stated that people who are in low education have a higher chance of getting MCI. This was the first study that dealt with the community of both genders to find MCI. As the study of MCI progresses, Ronald Petersen, MD, PhD, with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn believe that other results of diseases have to do with gender.
The results of the tests made a public health impact because of these conditions. The conditions of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia resulted in finding new treatments.
LINKS TO STUDY: No Original Links to Study.
ARTICLE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100906202854.htm
SUBMITTED BY: Erikacamisse Diaz
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets
AUTHOR: Radio Host: Terry Gross, Interviewee: New York Times technology journalist Matt Richtel
PUBLICATION NAME: NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross (podcast)
PUBLICATION DATE: August 24, 2010
SUMMARY:
Because I'm the teacher, I cut and pasted the NPR summary. You will not do this.
"The average person today consumes almost three times as much information as what the typical person consumed in 1960, according to research at the University of California, San Diego.
And The New York Times reports that the average computer user checks 40 websites a day and can switch programs 36 times an hour.
"It's an onslaught of information coming in today," says Times technology journalist Matt Richtel. "At one time a screen meant maybe something in your living room. But now it's something in your pocket so it goes everywhere — it can be behind the wheel, it can be at the dinner table, it can be in the bathroom. We see it everywhere today."
Richtel has spent the past several months researching the toll technology and "information juggling" are taking on our lives — and our brains. His series "Your Brain On Computers" describes how multitasking on computers and digital gadgets affects the way people process information — and how quickly they can then become distracted."
LINKS TO STUDY: No studies, but the author's series at the New York Times can be found here.
ARTICLE: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129384107
SUBMITTED BY: Cummins
PUBLICATION NAME: NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross (podcast)
PUBLICATION DATE: August 24, 2010
SUMMARY:
Because I'm the teacher, I cut and pasted the NPR summary. You will not do this.
"The average person today consumes almost three times as much information as what the typical person consumed in 1960, according to research at the University of California, San Diego.
And The New York Times reports that the average computer user checks 40 websites a day and can switch programs 36 times an hour.
"It's an onslaught of information coming in today," says Times technology journalist Matt Richtel. "At one time a screen meant maybe something in your living room. But now it's something in your pocket so it goes everywhere — it can be behind the wheel, it can be at the dinner table, it can be in the bathroom. We see it everywhere today."
Richtel has spent the past several months researching the toll technology and "information juggling" are taking on our lives — and our brains. His series "Your Brain On Computers" describes how multitasking on computers and digital gadgets affects the way people process information — and how quickly they can then become distracted."
LINKS TO STUDY: No studies, but the author's series at the New York Times can be found here.
ARTICLE: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129384107
SUBMITTED BY: Cummins
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