AUTHOR: John Tierney
PUBLICATION NAME:The New York Times.
DATE OF PUBLICATION: November 15, 2010
SUMMARY: This article is about the study that humans stating that when their minds wander off a lot, it is a sign of unhappiness. In this study, they analyzed 2,200 people and recorded over 250,000 of their thought processes and times when they are most happy. Psychologists did studies on iPhones of the people's moods at certain times and it came up as when people are happiest the most, they don't wander off at all. The time where people were happy the most is when they were having sexual intercourse. During then, noone wants to daydream about something else. But when commuting or working, people daydream about something better that they want to do over 40% of the time. When people wander, they want to be somewhere better because they are unhappy, but get even more depressed when they come back to reality. These results don't pose an important role in our society but gives us new evidence of people's daily lives and how much of us daydream in times of unhappiness. So if you see someone daydreaming in class, they are most likely sad about something going on. This article will help psychologists study a new breakthrough of something more genetic as many psychologists befor have written stories and articles about the human mind and day dreaming, but none has any clear cut evidence of their expectations. Hopefully, with the help of the iPhone, psychologists can help lengthen their research on this experiment. Over time, psychologists will be more advanced in this technology, and if you are intereested in this type of studies, this will be an interesting thing to look out for later in the future.
LINKS TO STUDY: None
ARTICLE: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/science/16tier.html?_r=1&ref=psychology_and_psychologistsThe
SUBMITTED BY: Matthew Menezes
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Sleep Makes Your Memories Stronger, and Helps With Creativity
AUTHOR: Science Daily Staff/Association for Psychological Science
PUBLICATION NAME: Science Daily
DATE OF PUBLICATION: November 12, 2010
SUMMARY: Scientists have proven that humans spend about a third of their lives sleeping. According to the authors of an article in “Current Directions in Psychological Science,” sleeping seems to reorganize memories by picking out certain memories, such as the emotional ones and reconfiguring them to help create and produce fresh and innovative ideas. Sleep makes memories become stronger and restructure. According to Payne and Kensinger’s studies about what happens to memories during sleep, they have proven and found that if a person is asleep, they have a tendency to hang on to the most emotional and affecting part of a memory. For instance, if someone were to be tested after a night of sleep and were shown a scene or a picture of an emotional and disturbed object, such as a burning house, wrecked car, or an injured person or animal, they are more likely to respond and expected to remember the emotive object in the scene or picture than the non-emotive object(s) in the background. Payne and Kensinger have also measured people’s brain activity during their sleep. According to Payne and Kensinger’s brain activity research and results, they have found that certain areas and regions of the brain that are involved with memory and emotion consolidation are dynamic and active. During our sleep, our brains are full of activity. They are not only strengthening and stabilizing our memories, but also organizing them. Our brains are also selecting out the most noticeable, significant, and striking information we have. As a result, it is making it possible for us to come up with new and innovative ideas.
LINKS TO STUDY: None
ARTICLE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101113165441.htm
SUBMITTED BY: Arielle Calara
PUBLICATION NAME: Science Daily
DATE OF PUBLICATION: November 12, 2010
SUMMARY: Scientists have proven that humans spend about a third of their lives sleeping. According to the authors of an article in “Current Directions in Psychological Science,” sleeping seems to reorganize memories by picking out certain memories, such as the emotional ones and reconfiguring them to help create and produce fresh and innovative ideas. Sleep makes memories become stronger and restructure. According to Payne and Kensinger’s studies about what happens to memories during sleep, they have proven and found that if a person is asleep, they have a tendency to hang on to the most emotional and affecting part of a memory. For instance, if someone were to be tested after a night of sleep and were shown a scene or a picture of an emotional and disturbed object, such as a burning house, wrecked car, or an injured person or animal, they are more likely to respond and expected to remember the emotive object in the scene or picture than the non-emotive object(s) in the background. Payne and Kensinger have also measured people’s brain activity during their sleep. According to Payne and Kensinger’s brain activity research and results, they have found that certain areas and regions of the brain that are involved with memory and emotion consolidation are dynamic and active. During our sleep, our brains are full of activity. They are not only strengthening and stabilizing our memories, but also organizing them. Our brains are also selecting out the most noticeable, significant, and striking information we have. As a result, it is making it possible for us to come up with new and innovative ideas.
LINKS TO STUDY: None
ARTICLE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101113165441.htm
SUBMITTED BY: Arielle Calara
No prosecutions in Spence Labs break-in
AUTHOR: B.A. Morelli
PUBLICATION NAME: Iowa City Press-Citizen
PUBLICATION DATE: November 30, 2010
SUMMARY: The Spence Laboratories at the University of Iowa were vadolized but no one was prosecuted for these wrong-doings. The perpetrators spilt chemicals and freed the test mice and the lab animals. These perpetrators caused $450,000 in damages to the labs and basically got away with it. Some of the professors at the University were even said to have psycological damages because of the break-ins. They feel as though they are no longer safe in the labs.
One of the berglars were discovered and were taken to court but because the young man agreed to a plead bargain, he was only given a misdeminer. Many of the professors thought that this wasn't fair enough because what they did was wrong and they are only getting off with a misdeminer.
Many of the enviromentalists were fightend of following these young mens exaples because of the long and hard hours the FBI spent on this case. Because the FBI spent these long hours, making the environmentalists afraid, made many of the Universities professors thankfull.
PUBLICATION NAME: Iowa City Press-Citizen
PUBLICATION DATE: November 30, 2010
SUMMARY: The Spence Laboratories at the University of Iowa were vadolized but no one was prosecuted for these wrong-doings. The perpetrators spilt chemicals and freed the test mice and the lab animals. These perpetrators caused $450,000 in damages to the labs and basically got away with it. Some of the professors at the University were even said to have psycological damages because of the break-ins. They feel as though they are no longer safe in the labs.
One of the berglars were discovered and were taken to court but because the young man agreed to a plead bargain, he was only given a misdeminer. Many of the professors thought that this wasn't fair enough because what they did was wrong and they are only getting off with a misdeminer.
Many of the enviromentalists were fightend of following these young mens exaples because of the long and hard hours the FBI spent on this case. Because the FBI spent these long hours, making the environmentalists afraid, made many of the Universities professors thankfull.
Does Adolescent Stress Lead to Mood Disorders in Adulthood?
AUTHOR: Science Daily Staff/Concordia University
PUBLICATION NAME: Science Daily
DATE OF PUBLICATION: November 4, 2010
SUMMARY: According to Concordia University’s recent research, stress may have a greater risk in our lives than we formerly thought. Over the years, there has been an increase in depression and stress rates and it has become a major health issue. The affect of depression on young people’s lives are gradually increasing and they are suffering earlier in life. Previous studies show that an early stage of stress can lead to depression or a bipolar disorder. According to the principle researcher Ellenbogen, children who have families that have been dealing with stress, depression, or a psychiatric disorder is said to have a much higher risk of battling with it in their lifetime. Not only are children inheriting these alarming traits from their parents, but also from their environment that they have been raised in. The environment could either be stressful and disordered and it is impacting the children's mental health in adolescence and adulthood. According to Ellenbogen’s recent findings, the cortisol, a stress hormone which is formed by the body in result to upsetting and stressful life events, has shown that the stress hormone can influence and develop a serious mood disorder in people’s lifetime. It has also shown that children of at-risk families have higher cortisol levels due to exposure to family stress and parenting style than children from families that are not battling with stress, depression, or disorders. Children that show high cortisol levels double their risk in developing and battling an alarming and major mood disorder in their adulthood.
LINKS TO STUDY: None
ARTICLE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101103135348.htm
SUBMITTED BY: Arielle Calara
PUBLICATION NAME: Science Daily
DATE OF PUBLICATION: November 4, 2010
SUMMARY: According to Concordia University’s recent research, stress may have a greater risk in our lives than we formerly thought. Over the years, there has been an increase in depression and stress rates and it has become a major health issue. The affect of depression on young people’s lives are gradually increasing and they are suffering earlier in life. Previous studies show that an early stage of stress can lead to depression or a bipolar disorder. According to the principle researcher Ellenbogen, children who have families that have been dealing with stress, depression, or a psychiatric disorder is said to have a much higher risk of battling with it in their lifetime. Not only are children inheriting these alarming traits from their parents, but also from their environment that they have been raised in. The environment could either be stressful and disordered and it is impacting the children's mental health in adolescence and adulthood. According to Ellenbogen’s recent findings, the cortisol, a stress hormone which is formed by the body in result to upsetting and stressful life events, has shown that the stress hormone can influence and develop a serious mood disorder in people’s lifetime. It has also shown that children of at-risk families have higher cortisol levels due to exposure to family stress and parenting style than children from families that are not battling with stress, depression, or disorders. Children that show high cortisol levels double their risk in developing and battling an alarming and major mood disorder in their adulthood.
LINKS TO STUDY: None
ARTICLE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101103135348.htm
SUBMITTED BY: Arielle Calara
Delay Sex to Strengthen Marriage Study
AUTHOR: Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD
PUBLICATION NAME: Delay Sex To Strengthen Marriage : Study
DATE OF PUBLICATION: January, 5th 2011
SUMMARY: A study done by the Journal of Family Psychology found that couples who wait until exchanging their vows to have sex are “happier with the quality of sex” and also enjoy their “stable” marriage. The researchers studied 2,035 married couples on an online survey and called it “relate”. The results showed that the couples who waited until marriage to have sex rated it 15% high than couples who didn’t wait. They also rated 22% high on relationship stability, and were satisfied with their relationships 20% higher than usual. Dean Busby a professor at Brigham Young University explained the results saying it represented how greater satisfaction and sexual quality if they had waited because the extra time gave them a longer amount of time to learn about each other and develop the skills for a good relationship. The Church of Latter-Day saints has a strict a new regarding premarital sex and the results could have been biased. They also came to a conclusion that religious belief often plays a role for couples who choose to wait.
LINK:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20110105/Delay-sex-to-strengthen-marriage-Study.aspx
PUBLICATION NAME: Delay Sex To Strengthen Marriage : Study
DATE OF PUBLICATION: January, 5th 2011
SUMMARY: A study done by the Journal of Family Psychology found that couples who wait until exchanging their vows to have sex are “happier with the quality of sex” and also enjoy their “stable” marriage. The researchers studied 2,035 married couples on an online survey and called it “relate”. The results showed that the couples who waited until marriage to have sex rated it 15% high than couples who didn’t wait. They also rated 22% high on relationship stability, and were satisfied with their relationships 20% higher than usual. Dean Busby a professor at Brigham Young University explained the results saying it represented how greater satisfaction and sexual quality if they had waited because the extra time gave them a longer amount of time to learn about each other and develop the skills for a good relationship. The Church of Latter-Day saints has a strict a new regarding premarital sex and the results could have been biased. They also came to a conclusion that religious belief often plays a role for couples who choose to wait.
LINK:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20110105/Delay-sex-to-strengthen-marriage-Study.aspx
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