Psychology
Indiana University researchers and fitness experts discuss links between creativity and happy people, hot weather exercise and important considerations when selecting a personal trainer or fitness specialist (beware of motor mouths).
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In January's Living Well, Indiana University experts in fitness, cognitive science and health discuss tips and research involving cold-weather exercise, language learning through data mining and New Year's resolutions.
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In December's Living Well, Informatics Professor Marty Siegel offers tips on managing e-mail before it manages you; Psychology Professor Bernardo J. Carducci helps ease the holiday blues; and Educational Psychology Professor Jerry Wilde discusses his book that speaks to adolescents and their depression and low self-esteem issues.
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An Indiana University study provides some of the strongest evidence yet that prenatal exposure to alcohol causes conduct problems in children, a finding that has been called into question in recent years.
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The study of Pavlovian conditioning calls to mind dogs automatically salivating to a ringing bell that predicts food. An Indiana University Bloomington researcher is taking a deeper look at the contribution of the natural history and social behaviors of the subjects in Pavlovian conditioning procedures. William Timberlake, professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, recently was presented with the Pavlovian Research Award by the Pavlovian Society.
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Researchers in Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have received a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how the brain uses highly complex statistics to learn language. The study, led by assistant professor Chen Yu and Linda B. Smith, professor and chair of the department, will use advanced sensing equipment to explore how toddlers perform complex mental computations as they begin to match words with objects.
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