Jonah Lehrer has an interesting article in the NYT magazine about a recent Psych Review article by Paul Andrews and J. Anderson Thomson. The basic claim Andrews and Thomson make in their paper is that depression is “an adaptation that evolved as a response to complex problems and whose function is to minimize disruption of [...]... Andrews, P., & Thomson, J. (2009) The bright side o
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February 27, 2010
what’s adaptive about depression?
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May 5, 2009
When Faced with Stereotypes, Picking the Positive Sidesteps a Psych-out
A new study from researchers at the University of Indiana shows that women have grown wily to the effects of stereotypes. When faced with positive and negative stereotypes related to performance, they identify with the positive, avoiding the psych-out effects of the negative. Take the mathematics stereotype, for example. Previous studies have shown that women perform worse on mathematical tasks
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