Synaptic Sunday #2
This Sunday, a few links on excessive anxiety. 1) Anxiety May Hinder Your Sense of Danger The result implies that worriers are less aware of potential danger—challenging the common theory that anxious...
View ArticleAging, memory, and context
There are limitations to memory research studies conducted only in the lab, especially if they never include memory tasks and situations that are encountered in everyday life (in fact this is a...
View ArticleThe Internet and Intelligence
Over time, IQ scores have been going up (the Flynn Effect), so the Internet and T.V. can’t be making us dumber, right? A recent Der Spiegel article, Is the Internet Really Making Us Dumber? (which is...
View ArticleDeficits in working memory – but not ADHD
The go-to diagnosis for kids who have trouble learning, focusing and following directions in school is ADHD. Even leaving aside official diagnoses, when we look at the way parents and teachers talk...
View ArticleAttitudes that enhance vs. limit broad creative thinking
What motivates you as you go about your life? Is your attitude more of approach or avoidance, the willingness to go for a reward or the desire to avoid harm? I know it isn’t strictly either/or for...
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