Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice.
We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of contact with out-groups.
In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower [...]
Most have very fond memories of their college going years. Going off to college is one of the few rites of passage that we have in the United States ushering future generations into official adulthood. Yet the cost to attend this passage has gottenastronomically expensive. College has now turned into a very large business funded by deep levels of student debt. In the past, the state took on a larger [...]
The self-produced and self-directed film bridges the theories advanced within D’Souza’s growing library of Obama-related research: “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” published in late 2010, and “Obama’s America,” available in August.
D’Souza’s main argument is that Obama was shaped by a cadre of devout socialists — “Obama’s Founding Fathers,” he tags them — with serious axes to grind. The roster of left-leaning mentors begins with Obama’s largely absentee father, Barack Obama [...]
Fathers who fail to bond with their sons in the first three months could cause them lifelong behavioural problems, scientists say.
Loving contact with baby boys in their earliest days can help to produce a calmer, happier child at the age of one.
Although important for all children, it seems to be particularly important for boys to benefit from a strong paternal influence at a very early age, the researchers claim.
Dr Paul [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coming in second on “American Idol” may still be a path to superstardom, but it no longer offers guaranteed paychecks worthy of the next pop idol or rock star.
Wednesday night’s runner-up, 16-year-old Jessica Sanchez, doesn’t have a definite shot at producing an album and could be paid as little as $30,000 in advances for recording singles, according to the “Idol” contract she and other Season 11 [...]
Psychopaths have less grey matter in areas of brain used to ‘understand’ other people
‘Cold-hearted’ criminals suffer abnormality in the brain
May mean current behavioural therapies are useless
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter: A new study suggests psychopaths have physically different brains from ‘normal’ people – and may be ‘born to kill’
Psychopaths have physically different brains from ‘normal’ people – and may be ‘born to kill’.
In scans by scientists, they had less grey matter [...]
Brothers have terminal leukodystrophy – it is so rare there are only 100 people affected in the whole of the UK
Two brothers have developed an age-reversing disease, which has abruptly halted their adulthood and instead leaves them behaving like young children.
Matthew, 39, and Michael Clark, 42, both had jobs and were able to have normal relationships until their mannerisms became more and more childlike – just like in the film [...]
After graduating from Brown University in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature and completing a Fulbright scholarship in Brazil, Cassie Owens was left with a few dollars on her stipend and no job in sight. So, Ms. Owens returned home to her mother in Philadelphia.
“I moved back home pretty much for lack of money and prospects,” she says. Owens’s cousin, Evon Burton, who also returned home after graduating fromMorehouse College in 2009, adds, [...]
by Joe Weisenthal
Bill Gross starts 2012 with a bang in a new note titled “Towards The Paranormal”, with “paranormal” being an international successor to PIMCO’s famous ‘new normal’ descriptor.
Gross’ letter is very gloomy.
The world has too much debt, too little trust, and is vulnerable towards total collapse.
He writes:
How many ways can you say “it’s different this time?” There’s “abnormal,” “subnormal,” “paranormal” and of course “new normal.” Mohamed El-Erian’s awakening phrase of [...]
by Ben Tanosborn
Those Terrorists We See in the Mirror… They Are Us
Some of us were brought into political adulthood reading Walt Kelly’s masterful creation, Pogo, the lovable character living in the Okefenokee Swamp of Georgia. From dialogue used in that comic strip, many were the quotes that attained temporary or even permanent fame, but one topped them all: “We have met the [...]
Children as young as 12 are to be allowed drugs to block puberty while they decide whether to have a sex change, it has been revealed.
The monthly injection suspends the onset of adulthood so that young people confused about their gender can be sure of any decision before they take on too many masculine or feminine features.
Supporters say that the “window” [...]
CNN:
Eighty percent of baby boomers are pessimistic about the current direction of the United States, according to the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends study released Monday.
Who can blame them, with retirement and pension funds shrinking and with the unemployment rate near 10%?
The boomer generation consists of adults between the ages of 45 and 64, according to the The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank.
“Most [...]
By Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
America’s Childlike Desire to Avoid Making Trade-Offs
The U.S. is childlike: we refuse to make trade-offs, as these require analysis, judgment, sacrifice and maturity.
The key characteristic of adulthood is the ability to make trade-offs. The child and the adolescent want everything that they want, now, and they soon learn (at least in America) that whining, cajoling, bargaining and guilt-tripping will get [...]
We’ll end up with a 75,000,000 workforce and the other 75,000,000 wandering around aimlessly…looking for a job …any job they can get. (or not looking…as they say…and status’cize)
Industry is being shipped overseas…those good “high paying” jobs that everybody around here keeps talking about…those high paying jobs have to be performed by a “skilled labor” force…the “skills” that used to be taught K to 12 in the fifties that I for [...]
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