cognition

A fascinating article on the "science" behind why some people are "lucky" and others are "unlucky." Turns out Pollyanah may have had it right after all..

Lots of mind games. I love it.

Redot from Mesa_lover

Quoted: Surveys and assessments to bench-test your brain

Experts aren't born, they're made.

Quoted: EFFORTFUL STUDY is the key to achieving success in chess, classical music, soccer and many other fields. New research has indicated that motivation is a more important factor than innate ability.

Quoted: Through controlled experiments, Sonja Lyubomirsky explores ways to beat the genetic set point for happiness. Staying in high spirits, she finds, is hard work

Quoted: Breaking News: Brain Exercise May Reverse Pre-Dementia Decline; Posit Science Presented Mild Cognitive Impairment Study at International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease. Genetic Engineering News is the most widely read bioindustry publication worldwide and has long been acknowledged as the voice of the global biotechnology bioindustry.

Dotting to read later.

redot from brittanyb

Quoted: Research shows that while people think of their own actions as the consequences of what came before, they think of other people’s actions as the causes of what came later.

Great to keep in mind when thinking about the conflicts in the Middle East...and our own actions as a nation after 9-11.

We're wired to daydream. It's the SETI at home program in our head.

Quoted: New study finds a default network of cortical regions, active when the brain is unoccupied, may generate the random thoughts of a wandering mind.

Quoted: This site is an attempt to double down on the idea that several different fields can all be tied together into a whole that ultimately leads to improved lives for everyone. A few of these fields include: self-help, psychology, game theory, neurobiology, social networking, goal-making, and the internet.

Self-help...the phrase always makes me cringe, but lots of interesting stuff here...