Psychology Around the Net: November 9, 2019

This week’s Psychology Around the Net dives into why (and how much) failure helps you learn, how sociosexuality affects committed relationships like marriage, whether church positively affects mental health, and more. To Learn Best, Psychologists Say You Need to Fail 15% of the Time: “The 85% Rule” states we do our best learning when we only get it right 85% of the time; if we fail 15% of the time, we’re learning our fastest. Says Robert Wilson, Ph.D., a cognitive scientist with the University of Arizona: “These ideas that were out there in the education field—that there is this ‘zone of proximal difficulty,’ in which you ought to be maximizing your learning—we’ve put that on a mathematical footing.” Hidden Brain: Does Going to Church Improve Your Mental Health? Many studies show that going to church regularly and/or being part of a religious community is good for your mental health. Whether that’s because of religion itself or some other factor influencing your mental health is cloudy. For example, research shows people coming from a stable home environment make up a large part of the church demographic. So, is it church and religion that’s responsible for their healthy minds, or is it their stable home environments? Also — and especially when you’re looking at adolescents — you have to take into account the Peer Effects. How Food Prep Has Helped Me Fight My Bipolar Disorder: From feelin...
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