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yuccaНапишу-ка еще что-нибудь, чтоб оттянуть момент истины, когда надо будет идти заниматься уборкой.
В последнем Атлантике мое внимание привлекли краткие сообщения о нескольких недавних исследованиях.
Grade-School Gamblers
Children who showed high levels of hyperactivity and inattentiveness as kindergartners were much more likely to buy lotto tickets, bet on sports, and play video poker in the sixth grade than were less impulsive students. This suggests that impulsivity is a “developmentally continuous” trait that can lead to a lifetime of risky behavior. And since youthful wagering often precedes compulsive gambling—which leads to poor health, criminality, and substance abuse—it could “easily unravel into a public health issue.”
—“Predicting Gambling Behavior in Sixth Grade From Kindergarten Impulsivity,” Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Это, что ли, теоретическое обоснование идеи, что невнимательных дошкольников надо насильно лечить?
The A+ App
iPods are as ubiquitous on today’s college campuses as pens and notebooks, and they may make better learning tools. Students who listened to a lecture podcast and took notes scored far better on exams than students who attended the class in person. A majority in the podcast group also listened to the lecture more than once while studying, gaining an edge on peers who may or may not have been napping in the lecture hall.
—“iTunes University and the Classroom: Can Podcasts Replace Professors?,” Computers & Education
Это мне кажется или идея сводится к тому, что студенты, которые затрачивают некоторые минимальные усилия на учебу, лучше учатся?
Cool Cash
Nerds never win—in fact, they make significantly less money as adults than their cooler classmates. Men who’d been popular as high-school seniors were making more money, 35 years later, than their less popular peers, even after controlling for family background and intelligence. Just one additional high-school friendship resulted in roughly half the income gain from an extra year of education, and “turning a social reject into a star” would “yield him a 10 percent wage advantage.”
—“Popularity,” Institute for Social & Economic Research
А то никто не знал, что карьера зависит только в четвертую очередь от мозгов, а в первые три - от social skills? Это у меня такое вечное самооправдание.
Novels of Manners
How do our minds differentiate between a novel’s heroes and its villains? Evolutionary psychology suggests one answer. When asked to consider characters in 19th-century British novels, readers consistently identified as protagonists those who were more conscientious and likely to form alliances—behavior that fulfills “an adaptive social function.” Those they labeled antagonists were status-seeking, power-hungry, and selfish—all traits that work against the “egalitarian social dynamic” that our ancestors valued. Novels may allow us to live vicariously in idealized societies, or they may encourage us to acquire socially beneficial traits.
—“Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels,” Evolutionary Psychology
Тут пришлось экспериментировать на людях, чтоб статью не завернули их психологического журнала в литературоведческий. А может, психологи действительно при этом узнали много для себя нового и интересного про викторианские романы.
В последнем Атлантике мое внимание привлекли краткие сообщения о нескольких недавних исследованиях.
Grade-School Gamblers
Children who showed high levels of hyperactivity and inattentiveness as kindergartners were much more likely to buy lotto tickets, bet on sports, and play video poker in the sixth grade than were less impulsive students. This suggests that impulsivity is a “developmentally continuous” trait that can lead to a lifetime of risky behavior. And since youthful wagering often precedes compulsive gambling—which leads to poor health, criminality, and substance abuse—it could “easily unravel into a public health issue.”
—“Predicting Gambling Behavior in Sixth Grade From Kindergarten Impulsivity,” Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Это, что ли, теоретическое обоснование идеи, что невнимательных дошкольников надо насильно лечить?
The A+ App
iPods are as ubiquitous on today’s college campuses as pens and notebooks, and they may make better learning tools. Students who listened to a lecture podcast and took notes scored far better on exams than students who attended the class in person. A majority in the podcast group also listened to the lecture more than once while studying, gaining an edge on peers who may or may not have been napping in the lecture hall.
—“iTunes University and the Classroom: Can Podcasts Replace Professors?,” Computers & Education
Это мне кажется или идея сводится к тому, что студенты, которые затрачивают некоторые минимальные усилия на учебу, лучше учатся?
Cool Cash
Nerds never win—in fact, they make significantly less money as adults than their cooler classmates. Men who’d been popular as high-school seniors were making more money, 35 years later, than their less popular peers, even after controlling for family background and intelligence. Just one additional high-school friendship resulted in roughly half the income gain from an extra year of education, and “turning a social reject into a star” would “yield him a 10 percent wage advantage.”
—“Popularity,” Institute for Social & Economic Research
А то никто не знал, что карьера зависит только в четвертую очередь от мозгов, а в первые три - от social skills? Это у меня такое вечное самооправдание.
Novels of Manners
How do our minds differentiate between a novel’s heroes and its villains? Evolutionary psychology suggests one answer. When asked to consider characters in 19th-century British novels, readers consistently identified as protagonists those who were more conscientious and likely to form alliances—behavior that fulfills “an adaptive social function.” Those they labeled antagonists were status-seeking, power-hungry, and selfish—all traits that work against the “egalitarian social dynamic” that our ancestors valued. Novels may allow us to live vicariously in idealized societies, or they may encourage us to acquire socially beneficial traits.
—“Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels,” Evolutionary Psychology
Тут пришлось экспериментировать на людях, чтоб статью не завернули их психологического журнала в литературоведческий. А может, психологи действительно при этом узнали много для себя нового и интересного про викторианские романы.
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