Bulletin March 2012 – International Psychology News

By Laura Sanders – ScienceNews Magazine – March 10th, 2012 – http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338560/title/Harsh_conditions_in_childhood_have_long-term_effects
Living in harsh conditions in an orphanage early in life has long-lasting consequences for a child’s social skills, a new study finds.

Children who spent their first two years in Romanian orphanages behaved abnormally in social interactions with other children, even years after leaving the institution. Life in an orphanage was also linked to brain abnormalities, Charles Nelson of Harvard Medical School reported February 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science… (full article)

Labels: Child Development

Labels: Latinoamerica

Source: ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2012) – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120403124404.htm

A study of the sexes reveals that when it comes to starting a business, women are more likely than men to consider individual responsibility and use business as a vehicle for social and environmental change… ( full article)

Labels: Social Psychology

Por Bernardo Moreno Jiménez, Eva Garrosa Hernández, Sandra Corso de Zúñiga, Mar Boada y Raquel Rodríguez-Carvajal
Fuente: InfoCOP-online – 09/04/2012 – http://www.infocop.es/view_article.asp?id=3894&cat=38

El primer predictor del rendimiento laboral es el diseño del trabajo. Hay tareas laborales fáciles de ejecutar, incluso aunque tengan su dificultad interna, hay también tareas que resultan muy difíciles de realizar por problemas de diseño, de medios, de condiciones y de organización laboral. La predicción del rendimiento en el trabajo, de su calidad y excelencia, de la motivación y energía puesta en el mismo, depende en gran medida de las condiciones de trabajo, lo que incluye factores materiales, psicosociales y organizacionales. Este es el marco básico de la calidad de la tarea y su mejor predictor. En este contexto, el perfil de variables personales del trabajador, su personalidad, es decisiva para hacer real lo que previamente es posible. (articulo completo)

By Lindsey Tanner, – Full source: BostonGlobe – April 5, 2012 http://articles.boston.com/2012-04-05/lifestyle/31295415_1_autism-proposal-autism-center-autism-spectrum-disorder
One child doesn ’t talk, rocks rhythmically back and forth and stares at clothes spinning in the dryer. Another has no trouble talking but is obsessed with trains, methodically naming every station in his state. Autistic kids like these hate change, but a big one is looming. For the first time in nearly two decades, experts want to rewrite the definition of autism. Some parents fear that if the definition is narrowed, their children may lose out on special therapies…. (full article)

Labels: Autism