Current Directions in Psychological Science
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Developmental and Educational PsychologyPsychology (miscellaneous)
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The Strength Model of Self-Control Self-control is a central function of the self and an important key to success in life. The exertion of self-control appears to depend on a limited resource. Just as a muscle gets tired from exertion, acts of self-control cause short-term impairments (ego depletion) in subsequent self-control, even on unrelated tasks. Research has supported the strength model in the domains of eating, dri... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 16 Số 6 - Trang 351-355 - 2007
Exercise of Human Agency Through Collective Efficacy Social cognitive theory adopts an agentic perspective in which individuals are producers of experiences and shapers of events. Among the mechanisms of human agency, none is more focal or pervading than the belief of personal efficacy. This core belief is the foundation of human agency. Unless people believe that they can produce desired effects and forestall undesired ones by their action... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 9 Số 3 - Trang 75-78 - 2000
Neurocognitive Aging and the Compensation Hypothesis The most unexpected and intriguing result from functional brain imaging studies of cognitive aging is evidence for age-related overactivation: greater activation in older adults than in younger adults, even when performance is age-equivalent. Here we examine the hypothesis that age-related overactivation is compensatory and discuss the compensation-related utilization of neural circuits h... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 17 Số 3 - Trang 177-182 - 2008
Stereotype Embodiment Researchers have increasingly turned their attention from younger individuals who hold age stereotypes to older individuals who are targeted by these stereotypes. The refocused research has shown that positive and negative age stereotypes held by older individuals can have beneficial and detrimental effects, respectively, on a variety of cognitive and physical outcomes. Drawing on these e... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 18 Số 6 - Trang 332-336 - 2009
Risk Taking in Adolescence Trying to understand why adolescents and young adults take more risks than younger or older individuals do has challenged psychologists for decades. Adolescents' inclination to engage in risky behavior does not appear to be due to irrationality, delusions of invulnerability, or ignorance. This paper presents a perspective on adolescent risk taking grounded in developmental neuroscience. A... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 16 Số 2 - Trang 55-59 - 2007
The Behavioral Immune System (and Why It Matters) Like many other animals, human beings engage in behavioral defenses against infectious pathogens. The behavioral immune system consists of a suite of psychological mechanisms that (a) detect cues connoting the presence of infectious pathogens in the immediate environment, (b) trigger disease-relevant emotional and cognitive responses, and thus (c) facilitate behavioral avoidance of pathog... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 20 Số 2 - Trang 99-103 - 2011
The Magical Mystery Four Working memory storage capacity is important because cognitive tasks can be completed only with sufficient ability to hold information as it is processed. The ability to repeat information depends on task demands but can be distinguished from a more constant, underlying mechanism: a central memory store limited to 3 to 5 meaningful items for young adults. I discuss why this central limit ... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 19 Số 1 - Trang 51-57 - 2010
How Do Simple Positive Activities Increase Well-Being? Theory and research suggest that people can increase their happiness through simple intentional positive activities, such as expressing gratitude or practicing kindness. Investigators have recently begun to study the optimal conditions under which positive activities increase happiness and the mechanisms by which these effects work. According to our positive-activity model, features of po... ... hiện toàn bộ
Tập 22 Số 1 - Trang 57-62 - 2013