How Companies Learn Your Secrets By Charles Duhigg New York Times February 16, 2012 An M.I.T. neuroscientist named Ann Graybiel told me that she and her colleagues began exploring habits more than a decade ago by putting their wired rats into a T-shaped maze with chocolate at one end. The maze was structured so that […]
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What’s New? Exuberance for Novelty Has Benefits
What’s New? Exuberance for Novelty Has Benefits By John Tierney New York Times February 13, 2012 Novelty-seeking, a personality trait long associated with trouble, turns out to be one of the crucial predictors of emotional and physical well-being. “Novelty-seeking is one of the traits that keeps you healthy and happy and fosters personality growth as […]
What’s Behind A Temper Tantrum? Scientists Deconstruct The Screams
What’s Behind A Temper Tantrum? Scientists Deconstruct The Screams by Shankar Vedantam NPR Health Blog 12/5/2011 The key to a new theory of tantrums lies in a detailed analysis of the sounds that toddlers make during tantrums. In a new paper published in the journal Emotion, scientists found that different toddler sounds – or “vocalizations” […]