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Intelligence: The Evolution of Night Owls | Psychology Today
Qs and Zs Night owls are smarter than other people, and now we may know why. The modern world contains many features our slow-to-evolve brains still find unfamiliar—cars, TVs, hot dogs on a stick. ... Read more
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200911/intelligence-the-evolution-night-owls
Tags: psychology, sleep, intelligence, night, iq, society, late, article, research, via:packrati.us Saved by: admin at 11 Jul 2010

Why Parents Hate Parenting -- New York Magazine
but it can’t be an accident that the one superbly designed study that said, unambiguously, that having kids makes you happier was done with Danish subjects. The researcher, Hans-Peter Kohler, a soci... Read more
http://nymag.com/news/features/67024/
Tags: parenting, psychology, happiness, family, children, kids, culture, joy, research, science Saved by: admin at 08 Jul 2010

All Joy and No Fun
But the intensification of family time is not confined to the privileged classes alone. According to Changing Rhythms of American Family Life—a compendium of data porn about time use and family stat... Read more
http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/67024/
Tags: parenting, psychology, children, happiness, culture, family, economics, kids, article, gender Saved by: admin at 08 Jul 2010

Why morning people rule the world | Life & Style
Evolution has produced a range of humans capable of being alert to danger at every hour of the day. Our experience confirms these findings. We all know people who love to be at work bright and early, ... Read more
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23852426-why-morning-people-rule-the-world.do
Tags: productivity, sleep, health, psychology, morning, toread, life, culture, evolution, science Saved by: admin at 06 Jul 2010

18 Memory Tricks You Need to Know on Shine
The key, says Harry Lorayne, author of Ageless Memory: Simple Secrets for Keeping Your Brain Young, is to get your brain in shape. "We exercise our bodies, but what good is that great body if you don'... Read more
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/workingwomen/18-memory-tricks-you-need-to-know-1750663/
Tags: memory, brain, health, tips, science, mind, psychology, teaching, learning, interesting Saved by: admin at 04 Jul 2010

Why Intelligent People Fail
Why Intelligent People Fail Content from Sternberg, R. (1994). In search of the human mind. New York: Harcourt Brace. 1. Lack of motivation. A talent is irrelevant if a person is not motivated to us... Read more
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/works/intelligentfailure.htm
Tags: productivity, intelligence, psychology, business, interesting, motivation, people, inspiration, fail, failure Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2010

Psychological Study of Web Designs | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
"A website is the window to the soul of an Internet business as well as the people behind it. It may have a positive or may be a negative effect on your end result. If you take the time to think about... Read more
http://abduzeedo.com/psychological-study-web-designs
Tags: webdesign, psychology, design, web, color, content, colors, usability, management, inspiration Saved by: admin at 28 Jun 2010

New Nicaraguan sign language shows how language affects thought | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
In the 1970s, a group of deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language. The kids were the first to enrol in Nicaragua’s new wave of special education schools. At first, they struggled with ... Read more
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/06/22/new-nicaraguan-sign-language-shows-how-language-affects-thought/
Tags: language, psychology, learning, science, research, signlanguage, education, linguistics, languages, thinking Saved by: admin at 27 Jun 2010

Confirmation Bias « You Are Not So Smart
Be careful. People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get uncomfortable when you tell them new things. New things…well, new things aren’t what they expect. They like to kn... Read more
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/
Tags: psychology, memory, bias, marketing, persuasion, fallacies, philosophy, research, testing, toread Saved by: admin at 25 Jun 2010

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
“But I wore the juice,” he said. Apparently, he was under the deeply misguided impression that rubbing one’s face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to video cameras. # If Wheeler was too s... Read more
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?hp
Tags: psychology, science, brain, nytimes, dunning-kruger, knowledge, learning, toread, health, interesting Saved by: admin at 22 Jun 2010