Whether human or baboon, it helps to have friends. For both species, studies have shown that robust social networks lead to better health and longer lives.
Professor Yoav Ganzach of Tel Aviv University says that when intelligence and socioeconomic background are pitted directly against one another, intelligence is a more accurate predictor of future career success.
“Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.”
Friendly to a fault, yet tense? A personality profile marked by overly gregarious yet anxious behavior is rooted in abnormal development of a circuit hub buried deep in the front center of the brain.
Introvert Susan Cain is here to make the case for people who like to work in peace and quiet. Today's workplaces are designed for extroverts, she says, and put too much emphasis on group work.
We’ve all heard the adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks." But new research reveals that you CAN teach an older adult how to improve their brain skills, with the added effect of changing a personality trait, making them more open to new...
This blog post contributes to the fact that personality is not genetically set in stone, nor does it reach complete maturity by early adulthood, (Srivastava, 2003). It was interesting to see the incorporation of cognitive skills developing openness. Srivastava supports this belief stating, "As an individual continues to live and grow older, he experiences social roles, life events, and environment changes. These changes create an option of choice that in turn affects their personality change," (Srivastava, 2003). The information used by the author was very compelling and agreed with Srvistava and many other psychologist believing in malleable personality changes. S/he also believed that future studies need to continue in order to come to the same results. This blog post did not include people under the age of 60 and would be compelling to see if results would be just as similar among people scoring in the same regions in openness as their older peers. Srivastava, S., John, O., Gosling, S., & Potter, J. (2003). Development Of Personality In Early And Middle Adulthood: Set Like Plaster Or Persistent Change? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(5), 1041-1053
New evidence from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, in Cambridge, suggests that breastfed babies may be more irritable than their bottle-fed counterparts.
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Psychology | Sex Differences | There's a new paper in PLoS ONE, The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality*, which suggests that by measuring variati...
A new study says that where we live- our geographical location- is important in determining how much our development will be affected by genetic and environmental factors.
In his new book, The Secret Life of Pronouns, psychologist James Pennebaker describes findings from his research on the relationship between natural language use, personality, and social life.
[T]he people around us are not who we think they are, and we usually fall into the trap of thinking we know their inner workings better than we really do.--From review of Situation Matters According to Professor Sam Sommers, we are not very...
If humans were twice as intelligent, we would be more fulfilled on an individual scale, but society as a whole would be just as conflicted as it is now.
The important caveat is that he says it requires counting and categorizing to determine the difference. The ear alone can't pick it up. Everyone uses a certain concentration of "I" words. Most of us amateurs would probably get derailed trying to analyze each other by the use of pronouns, unless it was undeniably excessive!
What we do know is that measures of general intelligence are practically useful. Frank Schmidt, of the University of Iowa, and the late John Hunter, of Michigan State University, documented that g is the single best predictor of job performance across a wide range of occupations — better than personality, interest, motivation and even job experience. People who do well on tests of intelligence tend to make the best mechanics, managers, clerks, salespeople, pilots, detectives and scientists. They also tend to make the best teachers. It makes perfectly good sense, as Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine argue, to use intelligence as a predictor of teacher performance. We should want smart people to be our teachers.
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