tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329765342023-11-16T10:44:28.861-05:00The Excuses I'm Going WithRebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-3900766705947229512013-04-15T15:54:00.002-04:002013-04-15T15:54:45.577-04:00At Discover This Month: 20 Things You Didn't Know about Hair<strong style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.333333015441895px; line-height: 21px;">1. </strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.333333015441895px; line-height: 21px;">Here’s the bald truth: Fur and hair are essentially the same thing, constructed of identical protein building blocks called keratin. </span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.333333015441895px; line-height: 21px;">2. </strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.333333015441895px; line-height: 21px;">All mammals have hair at some point in their lives, be it the fuzz on a newborn whale, a shield of hard porcupine quills or your long locks. </span><br />
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<strong>3. </strong>Insects can wear it, too. The microscopic belly hairs on the male freshwater Micronecta may help amplify its mating call. Some scientists think that when the bug rubs its penis against the tip of its abdomen, the hairs trap air and sound, making it the world’s loudest animal relative to its size. </div>
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Read all 20 at <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-hair" target="_blank">Discover</a>.</div>
Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-63127234410753631992013-04-02T17:00:00.000-04:002013-04-02T17:00:01.525-04:00Must Extinction Always Be Forever?<i>Not if certain biologists have their way.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Synthetic biologists use chemically synthesized DNA to create organisms. It's potentially a transformative technology. In theory, with synthetic biology scientists may one day "raise from the dead" species that have long been extinct. But more proximately, synthetic biology holds the potential to address human needs like toxic waste clean-up and enhanced fuel production. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">At the same time, the prospect of new species for which native species and natural ecosystems are unprepared raises pressing ethical and safety questions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In "</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001530" target="_blank">Synthetic Biology and Conservation of Nature: Wicked </a></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001530" target="_blank">Problems and Wicked Solution</a>," </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a new paper in <i>PLOS Biology</i>, a group of scientists argue that synthetic biology is useful enough to warrant an urgent dialogue about what we mean by "natural," how governments and scientists can weigh private and public benefits with private and public risks, and how the world can best anticipate what will happen when newly created synthetic life forms ... evolve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">If the current controversy about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the food chain is any indicator, it promises to be a conversation fraught with suspicion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Lead author Kent Redford of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the Wildlife Conservation Society, the science-based conservation organization that manages the Bronx Zoo, the New York Aquarium, the Central Park Zoo, the Prospect Park Zoo, and the Queens Zoo, acknowledges that </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.440340995788574px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, verdana, sans-serif;">"s</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ynthetic biology and conservation communities are largely strangers to one another, even though they both share many of the same concerns and goals. An open discussion between the two communities is needed to help identify areas of collaboration on a topic that will likely change the relationship of humans with the natural world.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Redford KH, Adams W, Mace GM (2013) Synthetic Biology and Conservation of Nature: Wicked Problems and Wicked Solutions. PLoS Biol 11(4): e1001530. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001530</span>Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-68049209739079663892013-03-31T10:04:00.001-04:002013-03-31T10:04:36.244-04:00Lust vs. Lysol<span style="font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Conventional wisdom suggests that women are drawn to men who help out around the house. Yet new research indicates that some divisions of labor may be sexier than others. A February paper in the </span><i style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">American Sociological Review</i><span style="font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> reported that married couples in which men take on a greater share of the dishes, laundry and other traditionally female chores had sex less often than average, which in this study was about five times a month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Read more at <a href="http://scientificamerican.com/">ScientificAmerican.com</a>.</span>Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-35844137624808707252013-03-28T17:00:00.000-04:002013-03-28T17:00:05.280-04:00Robot Ants on the Highway of Life
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">Robot ants are
probably not a significant part of our technological future. Still, it’s news
that scientists at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and at the Research
Centre on Animal Cognition in France <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002903" target="_blank">have created robots that mimic theswarming behavior of real ants</a>, rushing purposefully at high speed through
complex passages just like ants do. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">The ants that the
robots were built to mimic are Argentine ants. In nature, they leave pherome
trails as they move. Pheromes are hormones that act outside the body. For Argentine
ants they act like road signs, signaling to other ants where they’ve been and
how to follow. Remember the fairy tale characters Hansel and Gretl who left a
trail of bread crumbs when they walked into the forest? Their trail, as the
story went, was eaten by birds. Pheromes, on the other hand, are smelled—by
other ants.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">The ant robots
built by the scientists in New Jersey and France are about the size of sugar
cubes. Rather than drop pheromes, they leave trails of light that other ant
robots in their colony detect with sensors. In this study, the lead robot
ants moved in the way real ants do when they’re exploring—rather randomly, but
in the same general direction. But as they moved other robot ants swarmed after them.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">According to
the study’s scientists, what all this implies is that, in nature, individual ants
don’t need to be navigators—nor do they need to be particularly smart. Which is
good, because individual Argentine ants have poor eyesight and, in general,
rush about too quickly to plan where to go next. It’s a high-speed life that
ants lead, and on their “roadways” they, like human drivers, depend on big,
obvious signals about where to safely go next.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagine having to lose 100 pounds or so, wishing you could have gastric bypass surgery, and then finding out that <i>if a friend has the surgery </i>you may be able to lose weight without going under the knife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, that scenario has become a distinct possibility … for a few years down the road. The breakthrough comes from scientists at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital. Working with laboratory mice they’ve found that gastric bypass surgery results—as expected—in dramatic weight loss in mice. But they also found that the surgery altered the community of microbes in the mice’s guts. And when the scientists extracted those microbes and inserted them into the guts of mice that didn’t have surgery, the receiving mice lost weight‑lots of it. In general, they lost about 20% as much weight as the mice who’d actually had the surgery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This isn’t the first time that research has shown a significant change in gut microbes after gastric bypass surgery. But this new work is the first to show that changes in the bacterial community of the digestive tract can be “the gift that keeps on giving,” In this case the changes helped mice who had surgery as well as mice who hadn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unfortunately for them, many job candidates have the wrong intuitions about alcohol and interview dinners. In a study of 444 Executive MBA students from Wharton, most students said about a hypothetical dinner interview that ordering wine would make them seem more intelligent than would ordering soda.</div>
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the results of a study in the journal <i>Personality and Individual
Differences</i>. “No Evidence of Racial Discrimination in Criminal
Justice Processing: Results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent
Health” was its title. Got that? The claim was that a large, national study
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXQhZ-SN1ojEOU0RBSUJS6kGgyNn6Q9Z763Vuxwn6YjpZ1HCgPMl9Vb2DAujciY4FmfQpnTDVfC5-86QCCHlriJczdZ9iSl6WZpU5TYmMfa2P6MxXBeckPEs_eOtPyyRpRg2ip/s1600/nixonandelvis_sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXQhZ-SN1ojEOU0RBSUJS6kGgyNn6Q9Z763Vuxwn6YjpZ1HCgPMl9Vb2DAujciY4FmfQpnTDVfC5-86QCCHlriJczdZ9iSl6WZpU5TYmMfa2P6MxXBeckPEs_eOtPyyRpRg2ip/s1600/nixonandelvis_sm.jpg" /></a>Admittedly, it’s an old and tired joke. But with this April’s edition of the American Sociological Review, it’s acquired new edge. A research team at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health has compared the longevity of Emmy-winning screenwriters with their not-so-high-falutin’ peers, and they've done the same for baseball Hall of Fame inductees, Emmy-winning actors, and former Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States. Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Bruce Link and his crew pursued this line of inquiry because modern research has fairly shown a strong correlation between socioeconomic status and long life. They wanted to get specific about the why and when of any correlation.<br />
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STAG WALKS INTO A BAR. Ever wonder why some male animals have bigger horns or other sexual ornamentation than others of their species? Working with rhinocerous beetles, zoologists led by a researcher at Montana State University demonstrated that male animals’ ornaments are insulin-dependent. According to a <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/860.abstract" target="_blank">study</a> published in August 2012 issue of <i>Science</i>, growth to gargantuan size reflects excellent nutritional status in any male showing them off. If so, obviously “hunky” male animals are also probably strong and have good endurance. It’s probably an attractive quality to females hoping to mate.<br />
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BORN TO BE WILD. Every motorcycle movie ever made suggests that some humans are more adventuresome than others. Apparently, it's true of honey bees, as well. Some consistently “take it on the road” to new territory. According to a March 2012 <a href="http://wuos.org/content/335/6073/1225.short" target="_blank">study</a> in <i>Science</i>, there are massive genetic differences that set territorially bold honeybees apart from their fellows. At least a few relate to the molecular pathways implicated in novelty-seeking in humans.<br />
Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-23464759068650578632012-10-07T08:25:00.001-04:002012-10-07T08:25:43.503-04:00Sea Power, Autism, Ants, Clades, and Nuclear Waste1—A BETTER SEA POWER TRAP. Wave Energy Converters (WECs) harvest the energy of ocean waves, and represent an enormous potential in the creation of usable alternative energy. But the utility of WECs is hampered by the unpredictability of waves—and by their occasional surprising violence, which can destroy WECs altogether. According to a study recently published in the journal Renewable Energy, a team of scientists at Tel Aviv University and at the University of Exeter have developed an algorithm that, when programmed into a control unit, can give WECs a one-second warning about wave height and force. This allows a WEC to react to each wave individually, collecting energy efficiently and surviving even the roughest assaults. In the lab, the new prediction algorithm improved wave energy collection by 100%, doubling the amount of energy collected. (Renewable Energy is not available online.)
<p>2—HOGWASH TREATMENTS FOR AUTISM? The prevalence of autism is on the rise. But according to Vanderbilt University researchers reporting on August 27 in <a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/08/22/peds.2012-0682.abstract" target="_blank">Pediatrics</a>, every one of the interventions currently used for the growing numbers of adolescents and young children needing substantial support are based on insufficient evidence. The researchers examined 32 studies addressing medical, vocational, and behavioral interventions, and deemed all of them structurally flawed. In light of the current autism “epidemic,” the researchers have concluded that that more rigorous studies about care for adolescents and children with autism are urgently needed.
<p>3—TALKING THROUGH THEIR NOSES. By creating a full map of the olfactory system of worker ants of two distinct species, a research team at Vanderbilt University has come to a new understanding of ant gender roles and ant communication. The map shows that females of the two species each have about 400 distinct odorant receptors. This is four to five times more than most other insects have, and about three times more than male ants of the species studied have. Reporting in the August 2012 <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1002930" target="_blank">issue</a> of PLoS Genetics, the VU scientists speculate that smell is the probable fundament of ant communication. Chemical signals setting off specific odorant sensors would explain how ants live in a complex social system characterized by division of labor and the ability to collaboratively solve complex problems. The researchers suggest a reason that male ants have fewer odorant receptors than females. They are only responsible for fertilizing eggs. Females, it seems organize and do just about everything else.
<p>4—STUMPING DARWIN. A “clade” is a group consisting of a species and all of the many species descendant from it. Given the glacial pace of evolutionary change, one of the most fundamental expectations in evolutionary studies is that species richness in a clade is a measure of its age. Now that central assumption has been thrown into question. Publishing this August in <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001381#aff1" target="blank">PLoS Biology</a>, evolutionary biologists from UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and UCLA report testing the relationship between clade age and species richness across nearly 1400 major clades of multicellular fungi, plants, arthropods, and vertebrates that collectively account for more than 1.2 million species. The team found no evidence whatsoever between clade age and species richness. “This result appears to hold across the entire tree of life, for taxa as diverse as ferns, fungi, and flies,” the scientists report.
<p>5—SOLVING THE NUCLEAR WASTE PROBLEM WHILE PRODUCING EXTRA ENERGY. Physicists at the University of Texas at Austin have been awarded a U.S. patent for a fusion-fission hybrid nuclear reactor that could someday be used to turn nuclear sludge into usable energy. Parts of the device are still in the conceptual phase. But a “tokamak,” which uses magnetic fields to confine super-high temperature nuclear waste and produce fusion reactions, has been manufactured and is being installed in the UK at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. CCFE, just south of Oxford, is the UK’s national laboratory for fusion research.
Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-5914405426224223762012-09-13T13:59:00.001-04:002013-03-20T12:44:53.651-04:00This Week at Psychology Today: Would Jeffrey Dahmer Have Been a Good World Leader?<i>A new study correlates psychopathic traits with effectiveness in American presidents.</i>
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Certain legendary presidents—Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Franklin D. Roosevelt among them—had the fearless dominance of psychopaths. Presidents whom history remembers as relatively ineffective—Jimmy Carter and Woodrow Wilson, perhaps—had considerably less of that Right Stuff. So say the authors of a study published in this September’s issue of <i>The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology</i>. The team led by Emory University psychologist Scott Lilienfeld points out that, although psychopathology is a huge risk factor for criminality and violence, certain psychopathic traits are tied to success in politics.
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Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-16429303097807280942012-08-29T11:57:00.000-04:002013-03-20T12:48:39.884-04:00This Week at Psychology Today: Senator Stacey Campfield Out-Does Congressman Todd Akin<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Why did the Tennessee senator get his facts on HIV/AIDS so hysterically wrong?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">It’s old news, perhaps. Sorry to arrive on the scene late. But in January of this year the </span><em style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Huffington Post</em><span style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="ext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/stacey-campfield-tennessee-senator-dont-say-gay-bill_n_1233697.html" style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a><span class="ext" style="background-image: url(http://rsrc.psychologytoday.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/extlink/extlink.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 12px;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> some troubling quotes of Stacey Campfield, a Republican in the Tennessee Senate. He is the sponsor of that state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which prohibits schools from discussing with students any sexual orientation other than heterosexual. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">According to </span><em style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">HuffPo</em><span style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">, on a radio show hosted by gay activist Michelangelo Signorile, Campfield said:</span><br />
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Since last week when Missouri’s Republican Congressman Todd Akin said, “If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing [sperm fertilizing egg] down,” the country has grown another skin on its ever-hardening nub of understanding that politicians occasionally get their science wrong. But that’s no reason not to set the record straight. So, for the record, AIDS is only one of about 80 infectious diseases that humans are capable of acquiring from animals....<br />
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<br />Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-10202585134871134582012-08-29T11:49:00.000-04:002012-08-29T11:49:05.345-04:00This Week at Psychology Today: Congressman Akin, Meet Genghis Khan and Your Evolutionary Ancestors<i>The DNA of 8% of men in the former Mongol empire prove Akin wrong.</i><br />
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Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-20039659658005204992012-08-24T14:29:00.000-04:002012-08-24T14:31:06.486-04:005000 Years of Air Pollution<i>Like politics, all epochs are local.</i><br />
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Iberia, a peninsula on Europe's southwestern reaches, has long been known as a prehistoric mining center, with metal resources that continue to be harvested. As reported in <i>The Journal of Archaeological Science</i> (corrected proof available online July 23, 2012) researchers from Spain and the UK have examined three Iberian wetlands for clues about human metal use over the ages.<br />
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These peat bogs were not themselves mines. Nor were they necessarily ever sites of metal use by humans. Still, in the peat is a record of metal use over the ages. The data are in the trace minerals present in the soil because they precipitated with rain out of polluted skies.<br />
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The metal use timeline that the researchers have constructed for Iberia coincides with much of what's known about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, Celtic and Roman culture, and the industrial revolution both locally and globally. Uninhabited and even never-inhabited areas, it seems, can be an ongoing resource for investigations of early mining and metallurgy practices, and, hence, early culture. Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-51274756542175413222012-08-22T20:49:00.000-04:002012-08-22T20:49:27.603-04:00This Week in Psychology Today: Bad News, Bearishly Delivered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bad things happen, and not just to good people. Which means that, in no small measure, hospitals, law enforcement agencies, downsizing corporations, and many other organizations are in the bad news business. Knowing this, many train employees in interpersonal sensitivity and compassion—and they don't just do it because they value kindness and consideration. There’s a huge financial cost to heartlessness. Morale plummets throughout a company, and absenteeism and employee thievery rise, as do lawsuits.
<p>What is behind the chronic compassion deficits of some doctors, managers, police officers, school counselors, and other "bad news bears?" Why do they express so little appropriate emotion and invoke such costly wrath?
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Such are the questions that intrigued the University of Edinburgh's Alexander Weiss, lead author of a study in the journal <em><a class="ext" href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347212001157" target="_blank">Animal Behavior</a><span class="ext" style="background-image: url(http://rsrc.psychologytoday.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/extlink/extlink.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span></em>. </div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">To be sure, death by copulation is rare. But the data suggest that when it happens, it usually happens to adulterers, and the cause is typically cardiovascular. <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-extramarital-sex-can-kill" target="_blank">Read more.</a></span>Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-7949653764700057552012-07-09T11:19:00.000-04:002012-07-10T11:20:34.556-04:00MURDERS MOST FOUL: And the School Shooters in our Midst<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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More info at <a href="http://www.murdersmostfoul.com/" target="_blank">MurdersMostFoul.com</a>.Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-89666482366189906142012-06-17T16:45:00.000-04:002012-06-17T16:45:49.712-04:00This Week at PsychologyToday.com: Machiavellian IQ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>How Manipulative People Get Exactly What They Want.</i><br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-69875364428615114552012-05-08T08:53:00.000-04:002012-06-18T16:25:56.466-04:00This Week in Psychology Today: The Show Must Go On<i><b>And the Experiment Must Continue</b> </i><br />
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In the early 1960s, after the trial began in Jerusalem of Nazi Adolf Eichmann, Yale social scientist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment in pathological obedience. The setting was a fake (but convincing) language learning lab. On the basis of his scientific authority, the experimenter convinced test subjects to administer what they thought were brutal, even life-threatening corrective shocks to "learners" trying to memorize word pairs. Eighty percent of the test subjects obeyed, and they did so despite having voiced strong moral qualms about what was being asked of them.<br />
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Milgram wanted to learn whether it was possible that the millions of guards, police, and informers complicit in the Holocaust had merely been following orders, as many had claimed. He concluded from the ease with which he convinced people to be ruthless that it was, indeed, possible. "Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process."
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Fast forward about 50 years. A team from both Aix-Marseille University and Paris West University (Nanterre) recreated Milgram's famous experiment—only this time the experimenter had no scientific authority. The experiment's setting was a reality TV show shot before a live studio audience, and the experimenter was a fashionably attired game show host. Did the unwitting "contestants" follow orders? Was the host's authority significant enough to turn contestants into monsters? And what might the new experiment's results mean for reality TV, with the shows continually besting each other to be the most barbarous?<br />
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Find out at <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-bejeezus-out-me/201205/the-show-must-go" target="_blank">Psychology Today.</a>Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-70499471943697974102012-04-13T10:36:00.002-04:002012-06-18T16:26:26.106-04:00This Week at Psychology Today: One Country's Porn is Another's PablumThink of it as "Debbie Does Dallas" meets "I'm OK, You're OK." Ok, if that doesn't work for you, answer this question: Of Norway, the United States, and Japan, which country do you think shows more girls who wanna have fun (and get to)? The answer is in my "<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-bejeezus-out-me/201204/one-countrys-porn-is-anothers-pablum" target="_blank">The Bejeezus Out of Me</a>" column at <span style="font-style: italic;">Psychology Today</span>.Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-72784396866261305112012-04-10T10:31:00.002-04:002012-06-18T16:26:45.057-04:00This Week at Psychology Today: Sh*t My Chimp Throws<i>And the Origins of Humans' Ability to Say Anything</i><br />
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What's in those disgusting balls of waste that chimps hoard and throw. Maybe—just maybe—the roots of human language. It's in my new <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-bejeezus-out-me" target="_blank">"The Beejezus out of Me: Startling Behavioral Science"</a> blog at <span style="font-style: italic;">Psychology Today.</span>Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-27809662774705069122012-04-09T15:45:00.003-04:002012-06-18T16:27:02.026-04:00This Week at Psychology Today: Social Media, WAY Past, and Present.Q: What do ancient sacred sites in New Mexico and Facebook have in common? <br />
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A: Walls, the universe, and everything<br />
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See "<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-bejeezus-out-me/201204/social-media-way-past-and-present">Social Media, WAY Past and Present</a>" in my new <span style="font-style: italic;">The Bejeezus out of Me: Startling Behavioral Science</span> column at <span style="font-style: italic;">Psychology Today</span>.Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32976534.post-2760876697339486652012-02-08T23:52:00.002-05:002012-02-08T23:54:02.866-05:00In Discover Magazine This Month: 20 Things You Didn't Know about Clouds1 When moist, warm air rises to a cooler elevation, water condenses onto microscopic “seeds” like dust, ash, or bacteria. Water + seeds + updraft = clouds.<br /><br />2 If there’s more water vapor than places for it to condense, already-formed ice crystals can also serve as seeds. As the crystals take on moisture, they may become too heavy for updrafts to support. Time for the umbrella.<br /><br />3 It makes sense, then, that adding seeds to thin clouds should make them rain out. Believing the theory, 37,000 Chinese peasants shot rockets filled with silver iodide (a widely used seeding agent) into clouds.<br /><br /><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jan-feb/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-clouds" target="_blank">More</a>Rebecca Coffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01520682059195304843noreply@blogger.com1