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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Better research is needed to understand why elders are happier

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Older people tend to be happier. But why? Some psychologists believe that cognitive processes are responsiblein particular, focusing on and remembering positive events and leaving behind negative ones; those processes, they think, help older people regulate their emotions, letting them view life in a sunnier light. "There is a lot of good theory about this age difference in happiness," says psychologist Derek M. Isaacowitz of Northeastern University, "but much of the research does not provide direct evidence" of the links between such phenomena and actual happiness. In a new article in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, Isaacowitz and the late Fredda Blanchard-Fields of Georgia Institute of Technology argue for more rigorous research.

Researchers, including the authors, have found that older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less. Other studies have discovered that as people age, they seek out situations that will lift their moodsfor instance, pruning social circles of friends or acquaintances who might bring them down. Still other work finds that older adults learn to let go of loss and disappointment over unachieved goals, and hew their goals toward greater wellbeing.

What's missing, say the authors, are consistently demonstrated direct links between these strategies and phenomena and changes of mood for the better. One reason, Isaacowitz suggests, is that lab tests yield results that are not straightforward. "When we try to use those cognitive processes to predict change of mood, they don't always do so," he explains. "Sometimes looking at positive pictures doesn't make people feel better." A closer review of the literature also reveals contradictions. Some peopleyounger ones, for instancemay make themselves feel better by accentuating the negative in others' situations or characteristics. And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losseswhich force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

More rigorous methods probably won't overthrow the current theories, says Isaacowitz, but they will complicate the picture. "It won't be as easy to say old people are happier. But even if they are happier on average, we still want to know in what situations does this particular strategy make this particular person with these particular qualities or strengths feel good."

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For more information about this study, please contact: Derek M. Isaacowitz at dmi@neu.edu.

Perspectives on Psychological Science is ranked among the top 10 general psychology journals for impact by the Institute for Scientific Information. It publishes an eclectic mix of thought-provoking articles on the latest important advances in psychology. For a copy of the article "Linking Process and Outcome in the Study of Emotion and Aging" and access to other Perspectives on Psychological Science research findings, please contact Divya Menon at 202-293-9300 or dmenon@psychologicalscience.org.

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Older people tend to be happier. But why? Some psychologists believe that cognitive processes are responsiblein particular, focusing on and remembering positive events and leaving behind negative ones; those processes, they think, help older people regulate their emotions, letting them view life in a sunnier light. "There is a lot of good theory about this age difference in happiness," says psychologist Derek M. Isaacowitz of Northeastern University, "but much of the research does not provide direct evidence" of the links between such phenomena and actual happiness. In a new article in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, Isaacowitz and the late Fredda Blanchard-Fields of Georgia Institute of Technology argue for more rigorous research.

Researchers, including the authors, have found that older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less. Other studies have discovered that as people age, they seek out situations that will lift their moodsfor instance, pruning social circles of friends or acquaintances who might bring them down. Still other work finds that older adults learn to let go of loss and disappointment over unachieved goals, and hew their goals toward greater wellbeing.

What's missing, say the authors, are consistently demonstrated direct links between these strategies and phenomena and changes of mood for the better. One reason, Isaacowitz suggests, is that lab tests yield results that are not straightforward. "When we try to use those cognitive processes to predict change of mood, they don't always do so," he explains. "Sometimes looking at positive pictures doesn't make people feel better." A closer review of the literature also reveals contradictions. Some peopleyounger ones, for instancemay make themselves feel better by accentuating the negative in others' situations or characteristics. And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losseswhich force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

More rigorous methods probably won't overthrow the current theories, says Isaacowitz, but they will complicate the picture. "It won't be as easy to say old people are happier. But even if they are happier on average, we still want to know in what situations does this particular strategy make this particular person with these particular qualities or strengths feel good."

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For more information about this study, please contact: Derek M. Isaacowitz at dmi@neu.edu.

Perspectives on Psychological Science is ranked among the top 10 general psychology journals for impact by the Institute for Scientific Information. It publishes an eclectic mix of thought-provoking articles on the latest important advances in psychology. For a copy of the article "Linking Process and Outcome in the Study of Emotion and Aging" and access to other Perspectives on Psychological Science research findings, please contact Divya Menon at 202-293-9300 or dmenon@psychologicalscience.org.

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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Apple to pay Taiwanese firm $5 million in patent settlement

Apple will pay $5 million to settle a patent lawsuit with the Taiwan-based firm Elan, a report said Thursday. According to its website, Elan focuses on the research and development of integrated circuits and touchpad module solutions. Concluding an ongoing spat, the two companies have now agreed on a patent sharing relationship, according to Reuters. Elan originally filed a suit against Apple in 2009 alleging that Apple was infringing on two patents related to multitouch technology. Apple countersued in the United States and a judge eventually ruled last year that Apple was not in violation of Elan?s patents, Reuters?explained. However, CNET said Elan continued its patent battle with Apple in a California court case that was expected to kick off in February.?Apple is currently locked in a number of patent suits around the globe with several firms, including Samsung, and most recently tried to ban Samsung?s tweaked Galaxy Tab 10.1N in Germany.

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The Church in Minnesota and the Marriage Amendment

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January 06, 2012

The Church in Minnesota and the Marriage Amendment

As many people doubtless are aware, there will be an amendment on the ballot in Minnesota this November to amend the state constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Minnesotans appear to be deeply divided on the issue; a poll conducted in November found 48 percent of Minnesotans in favor and 43 percent opposed to it.

In the Twin Cities, Archbishop Neinstedt has been strongly supporting the amendment. In October 2010 he sent a video to all Catholic households in Minnesota advocating for the amendment. (Rob discussed reaction to that here.) Over the past several months he has taken a number of steps, including directing parishes to appoint committees to garner support for the initiative and proposing a prayer to be read at all masses for the passage of the amendment.

Most recently, the Archbishop sent a letter to the priests and deacons of the Archdiocese reiterating the importance of supporting the amendment and stating his expectation that priests and deacons who have personal reservations on the issue not express those publicly. In relevent part it reads:

It is my expectation that all the priests and deacons in this Archdiocese will support this venture and cooperate with us in the important efforts that lie ahead. The gravity of this struggle, and the radical consequences of inaction propels me to place a solemn charge upon you all ? on your ordination day, you made a promise to promote and defend all that the Church teaches. I call upon that promise in this effort to defend marriage. There ought not be open dissension on this issue. If any have personal reservations, I do not wish that they be shared publicly. If anyone believes in conscience that he cannot cooperate, I want him to contact me directly and I will plan to respond personally.

Not surprisingly, there has been some criticism of the Archbishop's letter to priests and deacons. ?Whatever else one thinks, the reference to ordination vows to defend Church teaching equates one's position on whether the State constitution should be amended with Church doctrine. ?Church teaching on marriage is clear, but is it really self-evident that whether the state constitution be amended is a matter of Church doctrine? ?

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This seems to be the relevant document.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030731_homosexual-unions_en.html

Posted by: Roger | Jan 6, 2012 8:10:49 AM

There is no conflict involved here between the state constitution and the Church. The doctrines of the Church and clear and firmly established. Pursuant to them, any entity that seeks to violate them must be opposed, with emphasis on the ANY. It was not the Church that initiated this conflict, it was a portion of the public in Minnesota who did. The Church did not however in any sense target the constitution. The Archbishop correctly targets any movement that violates Christian doctrine.

Posted by: Joel Clarke Gibbons | Jan 6, 2012 8:30:06 AM

Joel: I wasn't suggesting a conflict between the state constitution and the Church. My question is whether - in the context of a state in which there is no law recognizing same-sex marriage and no proposal that it be recognized - Church doctrine requires one to support a constitutional amendment to ban it.

Posted by: Susan Stabile | Jan 6, 2012 8:35:15 AM

I don't iterpret this as an amendment to ban anything. It is a proposed amendment to clarify the existing law. It has been necessitated by a movement to amend the law by stealth. The whole matter is unquestionab;y in play, whether or not anyone has mooted a SSM law or not. While the institutional Church has taken a posiion on the matter, it is not a "church" issue. Plenty of Minnesotans have taken public positions pro and contra, as is their right as citizens. It is not a Church/state issue, it is a Justice/state issue.

Posted by: Joel Clarke Gibbons | Jan 6, 2012 9:16:01 AM

One could argue that Archbishop Neinstedt recognizes that some priests and deacons as well as members of the Royal Priesthood have failed to form their consciences in communion with God and His Will for Marriage and the Family, and that a Constitutional Amendment that serves to affirm the self-evident Truth that Marriage requires that a couple live in relationship as husband and wife, in a Time when there are those who deny the very essence of Marriage, is for the Common Good.

Posted by: Nancy D. | Jan 6, 2012 9:26:09 AM

Susan I think we need to more closely examine the idea that there is a fundamental divide between Church doctrine and public policy. Ironically, it is usually conservatives who say that Church social teaching is only generalistic (prefer the poor) and not specific (enact welfare, vs. enhancing capitalism to grow the economy and benefit everyone), while it is liberals who usually treat ecclesial statements on such issues in the opposite way. But the "conservative" position recognizes not only is there no total separation between "doctrine" and "policy," but the more important an issue is, the more symmetrical the two become. St. Thomas, in teaching that the government cannot prohibit every vice or prescribe every virtue, notes explicitly that there are some things that a polity MUST prohibit such as murder. Thus, the Church's "doctrinal" opposition to abortion as an action cannot possibly be separated from the doctrine that it must be illegal. Opposing the latter is equally as irreconcilable with Catholic doctrine as opposing the former, as Evangelium Vitae declares consistent with every Church teaching on the subject. But, frankly, liberal Catholics wishing to justify their support for partisans who legalize and fund abortion have been speaking for a long time as if there is a fundamental divide between Church doctrine and social policy, imagining that someone can affirm the former on abortion and support legalization and state endorsement of murder. So, too, on such a core issue as what is marriage, for Catholic social teaching that places the family at the core of society. The principle that marriage = one man and one woman is so pure and fundamental that it cannot be separated from the "policy" that the state affirm the same. So we should not be suspicious of the claim that there is a near-identity on this question between "Church doctrine" and whether state law should affirm this principle. On some really important questions, such an identity readily exists.

Posted by: Matt Bowman | Jan 6, 2012 2:10:48 PM

Friday, January 6, 2012

You say you don't care about dating a hottie?

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New methodology suggests mate preferences hover just outside of conscious awareness

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Stating that you don't care if you land a partner who is "hot" or "sexy" is relatively commonplace. But what people say they want and what they actually want are often two very different things when it comes to romantic attraction.

However, a new methodology that measures people's implicit, split-second responses gets around this problem. Research from Northwestern University and Texas A&M University measures whether people's implicit preferences actually predict how much you like the hotties.

"People will readily tell you what they value in a romantic partner," said Eli Finkel, associate professor of psychology at Northwestern and co-author of the study. "But study after study shows that those preferences don't predict whom daters are actually attracted to when they meet flesh-and-blood partners. Now we can get under the hood with this quirky methodology to see what people actually prefer in live-interaction settings."

Paul W. Eastwick, assistant professor of psychology at Texas A&M University and lead author of the study, says that the findings raise questions about the way we determine what people want in a partner.

"If a person tells me, for example, that she doesn't care about how attractive a guy is, our research suggests that her claim isn't worth all that much," Eastwick said. "Instead, it would actually be more useful to measure her reaction times on this new task."

Focused on physical attractiveness, the implicit measure in this study was based on reaction times to various words flashed in the middle of a computer screen. Participants' task was to quickly sort synonyms of "physical attractiveness" with other words that they happen to like, such as tequila, or motorcycles, or romance novels. According to the researchers, the people who perform well on this task have a strong implicit preference for physical attractiveness.

Along with Eastwick and Finkel, other co-authors of the study include Alice H. Eagly, professor of psychology and faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern, and Sarah E. Johnson, a doctoral graduate of Northwestern.

"In many cases, people's consciously stated attitudes and preferences predict their behavior quite well," Eagly said. "But in the case of attraction, people's implicit, unconscious preferences seem to do a better job."

A number of psychology studies reveal a disconnect between stated preferences for partners and actual choices. Most of the studies use explicit measures in which people consciously report what appeals to them in a partner. In this new study, the implicit measure that the researchers developed predicted how much the participants liked physically attractive potential partners, both at a speed-dating event and in a face-to-face interaction in the laboratory.

"People's reports of why they like certain partners might not be especially accurate," Eastwick said. "But that doesn't mean that romantic desire is random. The reasons might still be there, hovering just outside of conscious awareness."

The study, "Implicit and Explicit Preferences for Physical Attractiveness in a Romantic Partner: A Double Dissociation in Predictive Validity," appeared in the November issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Father: Thankful for passers-by who saved children

This photo provided by Chris Willden shows a car in the Logan River in Utah Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, after it was flipped upright by rescuers who saved three children trapped inside. The car had plunged off an embankment into the river and Willden shot out the car's window with a handgun and cut a seat belt to help free the children after the accident. (AP Photo/Chris Willden)

A June 2006 photo provided by Chris Willden of Chris Willden. Willden shot out a car's window with a handgun and cut a seat belt to help free children after the car plunged into the Logan River in Utah Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Willden)

Roger Andersen, left, and his wife Mindy Andersen address the media Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at Logan Regional Hospital, in Logan, Utah. Roger Andersen lost control of the car he was driving and it was submerged in an icy river. Other motorists were able to rescue three children trapped in the car. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)

In this family photo, from left, Kenya Wildman, Mia Andersen and Baylor Andersen pose for a photo Monday, Jan. 2, 2011 in Logan, Utah. The girls were rescued from an overturned car that was submerged in an icy river outside Logan, Utah, on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)

From left, Roger Andersen, his wife Mindy Andersen, family friend Dennis Wildman and Dennis' wife Lynette Wildman address the media Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at Logan Regional Hospital, in Logan, Utah. Roger Andersen lost control of the car he was driving and it was submerged in an icy river. Other motorist were able to rescue three children trapped in the car. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)

LOGAN, Utah (AP) ? Roger Andersen thought it was over.

The 46-year-old lost control of his car this weekend on a winding Utah canyon road and slid into an icy river, trapping his 9-year-old daughter Mia and 4-year-old son Baylor, along with their friend, 9-year-old Kenya Wildman. The car flipped upside-down and quickly became submerged.

"The first thought was, 'So this is it how it ends," Andersen said while choking back tears Monday. "This could very easily have been a funeral for four of us."

But it wasn't, thanks to a handful of passers-by who stopped and within seconds, jumped into the frigid river to help.

"I was amazed at the people and the readiness of people to jump in and help," Anderson said at a news conference in Logan, about 80 miles north of Salt Lake City. "Without hesitation, they just did what they had to do ... And that ... for our family, made all the difference."

Andersen said they were on their way to a ski resort Saturday when the accident happened on a road they've traveled hundreds of times. The road didn't appear icy, at first, but as they made their way up the canyon, it got slicker so he slowed.

But just one tap on the brakes was all it took.

"In a second, I was completely off the road and sliding down the embankment," he said. "Within a second, the entire cabin of the vehicle was full of water."

He struggled to free the children from their seatbelts, but couldn't get them loose, and he had to breathe.

"I decided the best thing was to get out of the car and get air," he said. "In no less than 10 seconds, there were a half-dozen men standing on the banks of the river, and they're questions to me were, 'Who else was in the car?'

"Within five seconds, there were eight men in the river ... ready to assist," he added.

The rescuers pulled the children one-by-one from the car and passed them up the river bank to others, where some performed CPR on two of them ? his children. They were unconscious and not breathing.

They all loaded up into a friend's SUV and sped down the mountain for help, but were met about halfway by paramedics, Andersen said. His two children were flown to a hospital in Salt Lake City, treated for hypothermia and released on Monday. The family friend also was treated and released.

"In a matter of a couple of days, now Baylor is running around just like nothing ever happened to him, and Mia is fine and Kenya is also fine," he said. "It's a story to me that is inspiring in many ways."

He said he will now learn more about how to help others.

"I need to do more so I can be at that level where I can step in and help people," Andersen said.

Kenya's father, Dennis Wildman, called it "a great story about the human spirit and our desire to help others."

He said the bystanders who didn't hesitate to help "literally brought our children home to us."

"We just want to say thank you," he said.

Former police officer Chris Willden was among the first on the scene. He said he shot out one of the car's window with his pistol to reach the trapped kids.

"I was trying to grab arms, but I couldn't feel anything," Willden said. "I'm thinking ... 'What are we going to do?'"

He turned to see at least eight other people had scrambled down the 10-foot embankment along U.S. 89 to help.

"I remember thinking to myself, 'You're going to see some dead kids, get ready,'" Willden said. "I've got three of my own and it was going to be (an awful) start to the New Year."

One of the girls had found an air pocket but was trapped by her seat belt. Willden cut it with a pocket knife and pulled her from the rear passenger window. The two other children soon followed.

Roger Andersen's wife, Mindy, fought to keep from crying Monday as she thanked the bystanders for saving the children's lives.

"Hero," she said, "is not even big enough for what they did."

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Associated Press writer Brian Skoloff in Salt Lake City contributed to this report. Foy also reported from Salt Lake City.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Moo.com makes business cards from your Facebook Timeline

It's a new year, which probably means that you're due for new business cards. And look, your card design from last year is precisely that -- so last year. Moo has announced a clever new design, which allows you to "take your Facebook Timeline offline, and hand it out to new friends, contacts and potential clients." Wildly enough, creating 'em is as easy as tweaking your Timeline. Once you're ready to roll, just sign in and allow Moo to access your data (cue privacy advocate yelling), check that you spelled your name right and hand over $15 for a stack of 50 cards.

Update: Looks like there is a Like button after you've ordered. Nice!

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