Assessment of Intelligence in the Preschool Period Ida Sue Baron & Katherine Ann Leonberger Intelligence testing has a long and revered history in psychological measurement in childhood. Yet, the years between infancy and early childhood have been understudied with respect to emergent intellectual and cognitive functioning. Factor analytic models of intelligence that have demonstrated applicability […]
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STUDY ALERT: Assessing Executive Function in Preschoolers
Assessing Executive Function in Preschoolers Peter J. Anderson & Natalie Reidy Executive function develops at an unprecedented rate during the preschool period, yet few clinicians attempt to assess executive processes in young children. The primary objective of this article is to demonstrate that executive function can be assessed in preschoolers, and to highlight the […]
STUDY ALERT: People With Dark Personalities Tend to Create a Physically Attractive Veneer
People With Dark Personalities Tend to Create a Physically Attractive Veneer Nicholas S. Holtzman and Michael J Strube Which personality traits are associated with physical attractiveness? Recent findings suggest that people high in some dark personality traits, such as narcissism and psychopathy, can be physically attractive. But what makes them attractive? Studies have confounded the […]
STUDY ALERT: Creative Liars: The Relationship Between Creativity and Integrity
Creative Liars: The Relationship Between Creativity and Integrity Authors: Melanie L. Beaussart, Candace J. Andrews, James C. Kaufman Creativity is typically presented as a constructive activity. Some scholars have proposed the existence of malevolent creativity that has the potential to cause harm, either inadvertently or deliberately. But how do the values and beliefs of creative individuals […]
STUDY ALERT: Creativity: The role of unconscious processes in idea generation and idea selection
Creativity: The role of unconscious processes in idea generation and idea selection Simone M. Ritter, Rick B. van Baaren, Ap Dijksterhuis Today’s world of continuous change thrives on creative individuals. Anecdotal reports sug- gest that creative performance benefits from unconscious processes. Empirical research on the role of the unconscious in creativity, though, is inconsistent and […]
STUDY ALERT: Creativity: The role of unconscious processes in idea generation and idea selection
Creativity: The role of unconscious processes in idea generation and idea selection Simone M. Ritter, Rick B. van Baaren, Ap Dijksterhuis Today’s world of continuous change thrives on creative individuals. Anecdotal reports sug- gest that creative performance benefits from unconscious processes. Empirical research on the role of the unconscious in creativity, though, is inconsistent and […]
STUDY ALERT: Table-top role playing game and creativity
Table-top role playing game and creativity Tsui-shan Chung The current study aims to observe whether individuals who engaged in table-top role play- ing game (TRPG) were more creative. Participants total 170 (52 TRPG players, 54 electronic role playing game (ERPG) players and 64 Non-players) aged from 19 to 63. In the current study, an online […]
STUDY ALERT: The cerebral cortex of Albert Einstein
The cerebral cortex of Albert Einstein: a description and preliminary analysis of unpublished photographs Dean Falk, Frederick E. Lepore, and Adrianne Noe Upon his death in 1955, Albert Einstein’s brain was removed, fixed and photographed from multiple angles. It was then sectioned into 240 blocks, and histological slides were prepared. At the time, a roadmap was […]
STUDY ALERT: Grounding Creative Giftedness in the Body
Grounding Creative Giftedness in the Body Kendall J. Eskine and Scott Barry Kaufman Research in active and experiential learning suggests that conceptual development, discovery, and creative cognition in general are enriched by physical interacting with content in a manner that uses multiple modal domains. Again, this is consistent with, and indeed predicted by, theories of […]
STUDY ALERT: Reading and doing arithmetic nonconsciously
Reading and doing arithmetic nonconsciously Asael Y. Sklara, Nir Levya, Ariel Goldsteinb, Roi Mandela, Anat Marila, and Ran R. Hassina The modal view in the cognitive and neural sciences holds that consciousness is necessary for abstract, symbolic, and rule-following computations. Hence, semantic processing of multiple-word expressions, and performing of abstract mathematical computations, are widely believed […]
STUDY ALERT: Guitar Increases Male Facebook Attractiveness: Support for the Sexual Selection Theory of Music
Guitar Increases Male Facebook Attractiveness: Preliminary Support for the Sexual Selection Theory of Music Sigal Tifferet, Ofir Gaziel, Yoav Baram Music is a universal phenomenon that has genetic and brain-localized features. As such, it warrants adaptive evolutionary explanations. While some scholars believe that music arose as a by-product of other adaptations, others argue that music is […]
STUDY ALERT: Family History of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder as Risk Factors for Autism
Family History of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder as Risk Factors for Autism Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP; Cecilia Magnusson, MD, PhD; Abraham Reichenberg, PhD; Marcus Boman, BS; Christina Dalman, MD, PhD; Michael Davidson, MD; Eyal Fruchter, MD; Christina M. Hultman, PhD; Michael Lundberg, MPH; Niklas La ̊ngstro ̈m, MD, PhD; Mark Weiser, MD; Anna C. Svensson, […]