10:08 AM ETprintRENTON, Wash. -- When Angela Duckworth returned to Philadelphia last May, friends and colleagues wanted to know who she had met during her visit to the Seattle Seahawks' practice facility.Russell Wilson? Marshawn Lynch? Richard Sherman?Unfortunately, Duckworth wasn't quite sure how to answer."I didn’t even know who the quarterback was," she said.A professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and MacArthur Fellow, Duckworth does know coach Pete Carroll. A few years ago, he reached out to learn more about an idea she is an expert on: grit.Seahawks coach Pete Carroll >>>

Palace, crown, queen, prince, rule, England, George, throne, leader, chess, monarch, royal. Believe it or not, this list of words can play a trick on a person’s memory. Professor Dawn McBride, Department of Psychology There are numerous studies that support how the memory plays tricks and influences decisions that can potentially have long-term effects. Professor of Psychology Dawn McBride has conducted years of research on why the memory works the way it does and the causes of false memory. She began researching the Deese–Roediger–McDermott >>>

A paper published in the British Journal of Psychology has been chosen as one of the six most interesting psychology papers of 2015 by The New Yorker. ‘Best friends and better coping: Facilitating psychological resilience through boys’ and girls’ closest friendships’ by Rebecca Graber, Rhiannon Turner and Anna Madill was published in in June. It reported a study of 409 students aged between 11 and 19 from three schools and two colleges in Yorkshire that served catchment areas with poor socioeconomic status. The students completed psychological assessments of the quality of their >>>

Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation No. 606January-February 2016 The outbreak of violence by mostly young individual Palestinian Arabs has been attributed to a variety of explanations that range from nationalistic motives to more religious ones. Palestinian Muslim attackers are mostly young, appear to act outside of a formal organizational structure and by and large do not include Israeli Arab citizens of Israel. Psychological characteristics that typify group members of terrorist organizations may not be applicable to these individual (“lone >>>

Quit the diet! Diets do not work. Diets are temporary fixes to lifetime habits. Create a lifestyle, a healthy lifestyle. As humans, we should focus more on eating to live, not living to eat. I had a request to start a series on the psychology of dieting. It is interesting that the foundation of this article is based off thoughts. We all know what to do, what healthy food is and that reduced calories equals decreased weight. From a cognitive therapy perspective, knowing what to do and how to do it are entirely different skills. Weight loss is a $40 billion annual industry. The only thing as >>>

Affluenza is a combination of the terms affluent and influenza. In 1997, the term debuted in a book called The Golden Ghetto: The Psychology of Affluence, written by licensed therapist Jessie O’Neill. In 2013, the term resurfaced as a tragic excuse for the actions of Ethan Couch, a teen who killed four people while driving drunk in Texas. Having grown up as the granddaughter of General Motors’ former president, Charles Erwin Wilson, O’Neill has lived an affluent life. She claims that the pop term is used today to describe “entitled” or irresponsible children. Recently, it has been touted >>>

In the new book Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard Thaler, coauthor of Nudge and a behavioral science and economics professor at the University of Chicago, recounts his struggle to change the way traditional economists look at the impact of human psychology on economics. Wharton operations, information and decisions professor Katherine Milkman recently spoke with Thaler about why he wrote the book, where behavioral economics has had the most impact, and which decision-making bias he would remove if he had a magic wand. http://www.valuewalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/151209_KW_ThalerBook.mp3 >>>

MTV NEWSJan. 13, 2016President Obama isn’t the only one shedding tears and choking up about the 30,000 Americans killed by gun violence every year. The unrelenting scroll of news coverage of the mass shootings in San Bernardino, Charleston, North Carolina and Colorado Springs might be taking a psychological toll on all of us. Mindy Mechanic, a psychology professor at California State, Fullerton, said she and her colleagues sometimes refer to a phenomenon they call “trauma by television” to describe how 24-hour news and social media reports on gun violence affect us. “People are traumatized >>>

Harvey Langholtz, a professor of psychology at William Mary who teaches a class on decision theory, recently talked with WM News about what people should consider when deciding whether or not to play the Powerball lottery. – Ed. How does Powerball work? A Powerball ticket costs $2. To play you then select numbers corresponding to five white balls numbered 1 to 69, plus one red Powerball number between 1 and 26. When the game is played every Saturday and Wednesday evening, a machine randomly picks five white balls and one red ball. To win the jackpot, your selected numbers have to correspond >>>

News Will having all that money make you happier? Posted:Jan 12 2016 06:08PM EST Updated:Jan 13 2016 01:25PM EST The Psychology of Powerball n News The Psychology of Powerball The chances of winning the $1.5 billion dollar jackpot are slim to none but most people think IF you win, you'll never have to think about money again. Experts say the opposite is true! Coming into such an enormous financial windfall means you'll have to think about money more than you ever have before. If past winners are any indication, beating the odds isn't necessarily a ticket to >>>