Psychology Around the Net: June 30, 2018

Happy Saturday! This week’s Psychology Around the Net brings you some insight on “the curse of knowledge” and writers (what is it…and do we care?), the feedback loops among financial, physical, and mental health and how to stop the damaging effects, why physical injuries affect our mental health, and more! Do Writers Care for What Psychology Has to Say About the Curse of Knowledge? Vera Tobin, a professor of cognitive science at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, explains “the curse of knowledge” as such: “[T]he more information we have about something and the more experience we have with it, the harder it is to step outside that experience to appreciate the full implications of not having that privileged information.” Even though “the curse of knowledge” is mostly considered, well, a curse, Tobin attempts to show us that the “detrimental effects” of this “curse” actually are beneficial for good storytelling in her new book Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot. 3 Vicious Cycles: Links Among Financial, Physical, and Mental Health: A feedback loop can be easy to start and hard to stop. The feedback loops among financial, physical, and mental health are no different, but there are ways to break the cycles. Smart Moves: Intelligence Protects Against Mental Illness: New studies have found 600 new genes for neuroticism and 900 new genes for intelligence. Does thi...
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