Michele W. Berger | Penn Today

Visualizing Future Doesn’t Increase Delayed Gratification, Penn Study Shows

Some people are more impulsive than others.

Upcoming Penn symposium tackles obesity, hunger, and other food policy

Public discussion about food policy often lands on either end of a wide spectrum, with obesity, overeating, and unhealthy diets on one side, and hunger and food insecurity on the other.

What Makes Creative People Creative?

In a small conference room in the basement of a hotel, four comedians, two psychologists, a cartoonist and a seven-time New Yorker caption contest winner sit around a U-shaped table.

Penn Psychologists Find Photos, Videos Result in Similar Understanding of Actions

Viewing an action — for example, biting or kicking or punching — in a photo versus a video doesn’t change the understanding of what’s taking place, according to new research from University of Pennsylvania psychologists Russell Epstein,

Understanding how the brain recognizes actions in the visual world

Humans can recognize an action like biting regardless of whether they see a man eating a sandwich or a dog gnawing on a bone. But what in the brain helps to explain the innate similarities of the two, and does this reasoning change depending on the visual cues?

Weaning From Extended Breastfeeding Varies for Every Mom, Penn Research Finds

What are the best practices for weaning a toddler from breastfeeding, and what role can health-care providers play in helping nursing mothers to do so?

Penn Researcher Awarded $2.5 Million to Study Well-being Effects of the Arts and Humanities

What role do the arts and humanities play in human flourishing?

Penn Nursing, Medicine Collaborate to Improve Post-surgical Pain Management in China

Between 60 and 70 percent of patients who undergo a thoracotomy, or a surgical incision into the chest wall, experience some sort of long-term, post-surgical pain.

Penn study weighs instant gratification vs. more prosperous future

Given the choice between receiving $20 immediately or $40 a month from now, which would you pick?

Using video games as tools for learning and education

Ask someone which educational resources could make a sociological impact, and video games likely aren’t the first tools that come to mind.

Articles from Michele W. Berger