Category: Psychology

Online sessions promoting a growth mindset can improve school performance, per study of 12,000 9th graders from 65 public high schools across the US.
Lower-achieving students earned slightly better grades following the program, and were more eager to enroll in hard classes.
Compared to other large-scale educational interventions, the effects of this program are substantial.
There’s a caveat -- for the program to work, support from parents, teachers and school administrators is required to create fertile ground for education and growth.
Study author says that this discovery begins a new era of mindset research.

Bulleted by Michał Słupski
on August 9, 2019

Study on 108 heterosexual college students shows that, in a speed-dating setting, beauty is the largest predictor of attraction.
Physical attractiveness was the strongest predictor of attraction for both sexes - not security or emotional attachment.
The study was limited, but provides inspiration for future research to discover the process that governs romantic attraction.

Bulleted by Michał Słupski
on August 1, 2019

inverse.com

Trying to understand which depression patients would respond to CBT, researchers find that those who are helped by CBT are better at reinforcement learning.
Looking at fMRI brain scans of 37 patients, the team noticed that those positively affected by CBT had greater activity in the right striatum and right amygdala.
CBT is an established treatment for depression and anxiety, but on average it only helps 45% of patients.
The understanding of these mental disorders is still poor.
Studying these issues could lead to better, more personalised and precise treatments.

Bulleted by Michał Słupski
on August 1, 2019

Prisoners whom attempted or commited murder literally have smaller brains.
Study of 800 prisoners’ brain scans shows that the homicide-inclined ones had less gray matter in regions associated with emotional processing and behavioral control.
The data was collected for more than 10 years, across eight prisons.
However, it doesn’t prove that reduced brain matter causes homicidal tendencies.

Bulleted by Michał Słupski
on July 30, 2019

baylor.edu

Managers who focus only on profits, and disregard employee well-being, ethics and environmental concerns, might actually be hurting profits.
This is based on a survey of 433 supervisors with 433 of their respective employees in various jobs and industries.
High-BLM (Bottom Line Mentality) managers build low-quality relationships, which leads to employees withholding performance.
Even when both supers and employees have high-BLM, the negative performance is still evident.
Supervisors hold more responsibility for profit, but when their BLM becomes too much, they might be sacrificing employee respect, loyalty and liking.

Bulleted by Michał Słupski
on July 30, 2019

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