Can happiness be bad for your child?: Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics and a peer in the House of Lords, goes so far as to say that teaching “the secrets of happiness” should be the central purpose of schools. It looked like sabotage, then, when it was revealed early this week that researchers had discovered that sad children could concentrate better than happy ones and so cope better with tasks demanding attention to detail — which real learning generally does. [Mercator]
Your personality isn’t necessarily set in stone: Tweaking the way you interpret and react to the world can be a transformative experience, freeing you up to act in new ways. At first, it feels awkward, even bizarre. But with new behaviors come new experiences, creating a feedback loop that, over time, reinforces the transition. [Psychology Today]
Gay men and straight women have similar brains, study says: The brains of gay men resemble those of straight women, according to research published today that provides more evidence of the role of biology in sexual orientation. [LA Times]
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