Kids Health

Mistakes Everyone Makes At Weddings

With wedding season just around the corner, it may be useful to brush up on a few unspoken rules of the process. As a guest, you may assume that your main job is to show up and bring a suitable gift. But, there’s a few more things in the fine print that can help you […]

Health Problems

Research examines how mistakes can make people ‘tune out’

Failure may not be the great teacher that conventional wisdom says it is. New research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business finds that, contrary to common belief, people learn less from failure than from success. “Our society celebrates failure as a teachable moment,” write the study’s authors, Prof. Ayelet Fishbach and postdoctoral […]

Health Problems

‘Error neurons’ play role in how brain processes mistakes

New research from Cedars-Sinai has identified neurons that play a role in how people recognize errors they make, a discovery that may have implications for the treatment of conditions including obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia. Catching even small errors, such as making a typo while writing a letter, is a critical executive function that allows us […]