For all those dismayed by scenes of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether Haiti or Chile or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts – acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation – spread just as easily as bad. And it takes only a handful of individuals to really make a difference.
In a study published in the March 8 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Harvard provide the first laboratory evidence that cooperative behavior is contagious and that it spreads from person to person to person. When people benefit from kindness they “pay it forward” by helping others who were not originally involved, and this creates a cascade of cooperation that influences dozens more in a social network. [continue reading…]
In this interview, Dr. Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe of Washington State University discusses different types of memory concepts – including semantic memory, episodic memory, prospective memory, source memory, and working memory and how these are affected by dementia and MCI. Greg Lee, the interviewer, is a psychology undergraduate student at the University of Idaho.
Debbie Phillips died of cervical cancer at home in the early hours of Feb 11, 2010. This beautiful tribute was made by her daughter Sarah, it reminds us that life is precious, isn’t always fair and sometimes goes by all too fast.
The Debbie Phillips Cervical Cancer Research Fund will raise money for the UCL Cancer Institute Research Trust. For further information on the work of the UCL Cancer Institute, please go to www.ucl.ac.uk
