Do you want to understand more about your own thoughts and motivations? Do you wish you had a better understanding of what motivates other people and drives their decisions? Has psychology always fascinated you, but you’ve been missing a way to apply those lessons practically in your day-to-day life? The Science of Success is redOrbit's newest podcast, featuring entrepreneur and investor Matt Bodnar, who explores the mindset of success, the psychology of performance, and how to get the most out of your daily life. With gripping examples, concrete explanations of psychological research, interviews >>>

ISIS has been leading the news circuits all over the world for the past couple weeks. Within a short span of time, ISIS conducted terrorist attacks in which they killed in Beirut, brought down a Russian plane over Egypt, and launched synchronized strikes in Paris in which 130 people were killed. After the attacks in Paris, ISIS sent out a press release stating the following. “Allah granted victory upon their hands and cast terror into the hearts of the crusaders in their very own homeland.” Experts have wondered how such a deadly terrorist organization has been able to recruit people >>>

The Merced College Board of Trustees approved the hiring of a new vice president of instruction this month. Brian Ellison’s appointment was accepted on Nov. 10. He is set to return to the college where he taught psychology and sociology from 1988 to 2000.“I’m very excited to return to Merced College, where the quality of instruction has always been a hallmark of excellence,” he said in a news release.Ellison said he is a product of the community college system. “I earned an Associate of Arts degree in psychology from San Diego Mesa College,” he said. “I’m also the first in my family >>>

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Jim Cramer thinks the economy psychology behind the massive runs in FANG — his acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet — should become a case study in how stocks don't divorce themselves from fundamentals, but they develop scarcity value. "These high-flying stocks become something akin to modern art or professional sports teams, valuations that, while they can't be explained by simple numbers, can be absolutely understood from the perspective that there just aren't enough of them to go around," the "Mad Money" host said. >>>

For some kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), stimulant medications used to control symptoms may keep them from getting the sleep they need, a new research review confirms. ADHD meds may cause sleep problems in kids Cole Mariano used to be one of them. The 11-year-old has a prescription to treat his ADHD, and while he is now able to fall asleep at night, that wasn’t always the case. “I would come in crying to my mom and dad’s room and be like, ‘I can’t go to sleep. I want to sleep, but I can’t,'” he told CBS News. He’s not alone. The new analysis, published >>>

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Holocaust, lynchings, assassinations – past and present are full of examples for blind and brutal violence. The question of how it can happen that man radicalized, loses all compassion and obsessively pursuing an ideologically berhhtes objective research employs a long time. “Fanaticism” is indeed not a scientific technical term. Still looking theologians and sociologists, psychiatrists and psychologists, Orientalists and even neurologists for answers. At the British University of Leeds, for example, examined the sociologist Andreas Armborst the long-term transformation of Islamism. >>>

Coane is an expert in the science of memory, studying how we construct false memories, how memory changes as we age, and how to apply cognitive psychology to study techniques. In August 2015 she received a $600,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation for her work in understanding human cognition—a prestigious award the foundation typically gives to scientists at large research universities. At Colby, Coane will study how we integrate knowledge and words into semantic memory—the knowledge that’s accessible without context and instantly connected to related information. The words castanet >>>