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Nov 27, 2024 | 
psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
We tend to make better decisions when we're doing something for ourselves rather than for others. Theories of how animals collect food can provide insight into how humans make decisions. People with autistic traits may respond to rewards differently, being less optimal in choices for themselves. Does a Self-Bias Makes Us Better at Decision-Making? Humans have many biases that affect how we act.
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Nov 27, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
We tend to make better decisions when we're doing something for ourselves rather than for others. Theories of how animals collect food can provide insight into how humans make decisions. People with autistic traits may respond to rewards differently, being less optimal in choices for themselves. Does a Self-Bias Makes Us Better at Decision-Making? Humans have many biases that affect how we act.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
What morality is, where it comes from, and how it changes throughout our lives are fundamental questions for the experience of being human. We can think of morality as simply a set of values and norms that label different actions as good or bad (Crockett, 2013). A key debate is whether people are born with a moral compass that helps them to understand these norms or whether morality is learned and depends more on our experiences and environment.
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Aug 16, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
What morality is, where it comes from, and how it changes throughout our lives are fundamental questions for the experience of being human. We can think of morality as simply a set of values and norms that label different actions as good or bad (Crockett, 2013). A key debate is whether people are born with a moral compass that helps them to understand these norms or whether morality is learned and depends more on our experiences and environment.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
This post was written by Nikita Mehta, MSc, and Matthew Apps, Ph.D., with edits from Patricia Lockwood, Ph.D., and Jo Cutler, Ph.D. Ending social interactions can be tricky. How do you decide when to end a phone call with a friend, move on to talk to someone else at a social event, or slowly drift away from a chat with your colleagues? Conversations don’t always end when we want, whether it’s being stuck in a boring discussion or having to end a chat about juicy gossip too soon.
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Jun 18, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
This post was written by Nikita Mehta, MSc, and Matthew Apps, Ph.D., with edits from Patricia Lockwood, Ph.D., and Jo Cutler, Ph.D. Ending social interactions can be tricky. How do you decide when to end a phone call with a friend, move on to talk to someone else at a social event, or slowly drift away from a chat with your colleagues? Conversations don’t always end when we want, whether it’s being stuck in a boring discussion or having to end a chat about juicy gossip too soon.
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May 10, 2024 | 
psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
Adolescents with conduct problems often display antisocial behavior. People with conduct problems and high callous-unemotional traits are at risk of developing psychopathy. Research finds those at risk of developing psychopathy are especially unwilling to make an effort to help. The data highlight differences between individuals and new targets for research on behavioral interventions.
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May 10, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
Adolescents with conduct problems often display antisocial behavior. People with conduct problems and high callous-unemotional traits are at risk of developing psychopathy. Research finds those at risk of developing psychopathy are especially unwilling to make an effort to help. The data highlight differences between individuals and new targets for research on behavioral interventions.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anne Gaule |Peter Martin |Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
Introduction Adolescents with conduct problems (CP) display antisocial behaviour that incurs large individual and societal costs (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health et al., 2013; Richards et al., 2009). They also demonstrate markedly reduced engagement in prosocial behaviour, or behaviours that voluntarily help others, relative to typically developing (TD) peers (Memmott-Elison, Holmgren, Padilla-Walker, & Hawkins, 2020).
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
basementmedicine.org | Jo Cutler
On Nov. 15, Abigail Synnestvedt, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) student at VTSU-Johnson, presented her paintings at the Julian Scott Gallery. Her collection, titled “Devotions,” included 20 five-by-seven paintings commemorating her husband, Robin, who recently passed away. According to Synnestvedt and her mother, Synnestvedt has been an artist her whole life, but she became passionate about painting in high school.
