In striving to develop expertise, are 10,000 hours of deliberate practice really required, and must it be guided by a teacher or coach? In episode 59, we’re joined by Brooke Macnamara from Case Western Reserve University. She’ll discuss her attempted replication of the study which led to the mantra popularized by Malcolm Gladwell that these parameters are required to master a task.
20-40% of growth in GDP per person in the United States between 1960 and 2010 may be explained by reduced discrimination against women and black men. Non paywalled paper here.
Repeated romantic rejection found associated with decreases in standards of an "ideal" mate as well as perceived value of a mate, and increases in ideal flexibility, though no effects on these measures were found for romantic acceptance.
Our prior guest Ida Momennejad has a new article out on the interactions underlying cognitive mapping and hierarchical planning in the brain! After checking out her paper, give a listen to her and Ajua Duker's discussion with us re: collective memories.
