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Taking Safety Personally

By Guest PostApril 30, 2011Environment, Generalbp disaster, bp explosion, culture, culture of safety, deepwater horizon oil rig, disaster, geller, individual freedom, message, oil spill, psychologists, safety personally, scott geller, video, virginia tech

A year after the BP explosion and oil spill, those trying to find someone to blame are misguided, says psychological scientist E. Scott Geller, Alumni Distinguished professor at Virginia Tech, and author of a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Geller has spent much of his 42-year career developing interventions to keep people safe, particularly helping companies develop a culture that promotes occupational safety. (more…)

Q&A: Creating a Safe Haven For Children

By Guest PostApril 28, 2011General, Healthandrea asnes, assessment, bridging program, child abuse, child abuse program, children, dart, detection, john leventhal, leventhal, new haven, pediatrics, physical abuse, referral and treatment, sexual abuse, yale daily bulletin

For over 25 years, Dr. John M. Leventhal has been fighting a battle to protect the lives of hundreds of children who come through one of the child abuse programs at Yale.

He has won many struggles along the way, but to win the war, he says, the program needs to be armed with more state and federal support, as well as support from individuals and foundations.

“Finding ways to protect children who can’t defend themselves is part of what wakes me up in the morning and motivates me to continue this tough, but important work,” says Leventhal, professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Child Abuse Programs at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. (more…)

Crossing the Line: What Constitutes Torture?

By Guest PostApril 16, 2011Generalbush administration’s, interrogation techniques, loewenstein, psychological science, psychologically untenable, rarified situation, room-temperature water, torture, waterboarding

Torture. The United Nations defines it as the “infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering.” But how severe is severe? That judgment determines whether or not the law classifies an interrogation practice as torture.

Now, a study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, condemns this method of classification as essentially flawed. The reason: The people estimating the severity of pain aren’t experiencing that pain—so they underestimate it.

As a result, many acts of torture are not classified—or prohibited—as torture, say authors, Loran F. Nordgren of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Mary-Hunter Morris of Harvard Law School, and George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University. (more…)

Got Up On The Wrong Side of the Bed? Your Work Will Show It

By Guest PostApril 13, 2011Generalemployee moods, good mood, insurance company, nancy rothbard, positive customers, steffanie wilk, telephone customer service representatives, workday

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study of telephone customer service representatives shows just how important it is for employees to start the workday in a good mood.

Researchers found that employees’ moods when they clocked in tended to affect how they felt the rest of the day. Early mood was linked to their perceptions of customers and to how they reacted to customers’ moods. (more…)

Tsunami Waves Crash Into Japan’s North-east After Powerful Quake

By PravdaMarch 11, 2011Environment, Generalcoastal parts, earthquake, epicenter, friday, fukushima prefecture, highways, iwate prefecture, Japan, magnitude of the earthquake, mariana islands, miyagi, north east, onahama city, plumes of smoke, quake, richter scale, tokyo, tsunami warning, tsunami wave

The government of Japan has provided a report about the damage caused by a strong earthquake which rocked the north-east of the country on Friday, March 11. The Associated Press reports with reference to Japanese television that the tsunami wave, triggered by the quake, caused significant destruction in the northern part of the country.

The magnitude of the earthquake, which took place in Japan on Friday, was measured 8.8 on Richter scale. Quakes still continue in the capital, Tokyo. The epicenter of the quake was located 382 kilometers to the north-east off Tokyo, at the depth of 10 kilometers. (more…)

U.S. Remains the Largest Cocaine Market in the World

By PravdaMarch 6, 20111 commentCulture, GeneralEurope, heroin, largest market for cocaine, legalisation of marijuana, lisa karpova, marijuana, methamphetamine, mexican traffickers, overuse of drugs, united states

The United States remains the world’s largest market for cocaine, with 4.8 million users, although its importance has been reduced in recent years, according to the INCB (International Board for Narcotics Control).

“In 2009, 4.8 million people consumed some form of cocaine in the U.S., compared with 5.3 million in 2008,” the INCB said in its report in 2010. With this number of consumers, the U.S. represents 41% of the international drug market, ahead of Europe, with 29%, according to the board, stating that “Although the market for cocaine has been reduced in North America, it continues to grow in Europe.” (more…)

Orangutans and Gorillas

By PravdaFebruary 17, 2011Generaladult apes, gorillas, monkey house, moscow zoo, natural laws, orangutans

Three babies have been born in the monkey house of the Moscow Zoo during the recent six months. The births took place in the families of orangutans and gorillas. While young males and females are growing, adult apes continue to follow natural laws. *Source: Pravda

Woman Chases Tiger Attacking Her Husband Away With Wooden Ladle

By PravdaFebruary 14, 2011Culture, Generalgerik belum forest reserve, han besau, kg sungai tiang, kuala lumpur, lacerations, malaysian tiger, malaysian woman, orang asli, spoon, squirrels, tambun gediu, tiger attack, wooden ladle

A Malaysian woman has rescued her husband from tiger attack by hitting the animal on its head with a wooden ladle and chasing it away.

Tambun Gediu, 60, from an Orang Asli settlement, was hunting for squirrels near his village in the Gerik Belum Forest Reserve on Saturday when the 90kg tiger pounced on him. (more…)

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