"Keeping people in the dark about how much we like them will increase how much they think about us and will pique their interest," concludes new research co-authored by U.Va. psychologists Erin Witchurch and Timothy Wilson.
A long-term study conducted by U.Va. scientists shows that Virginia’s trout streams are rebounding from acidification, though not as fast or as thoroughly as waters in some other parts of the country. The results were derived from a series of extensive surveys of water quality, conducted in 1987, 2000 and 2010.
After a year that tested both the physical virtuosity and emotional solidarity of the UVA lacrosse program, men's coach Dom Starsia was named NCAA Men's Coach of the Year by FieldTurf, a sports surface manufacturer. Starsia last received the award in 2008.
David Germano
Associate professor of religious studies
Utah native, Tibetan book collector Smith dies
Ellis Gene Smith, the son of a Mormon family from Ogden, Utah, who is believed to have compiled the largest collection of Tibetan books outside of Tibet, has died in New York at age 74. ...Tibetan is one of four great languages in which the Buddhist canon was preserved, David Germano, a professor of Tibetan studies at the University of Virginia, said last week.
Wall Street Journal/ Dec. 29
Edward Lengel
Editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington
Virginia History 101: The Yorktown Camp...
Edwin Burton, an economics professor at the University of Virginia and a trustee of the state employee pension fund, criticized cuts to the fund. "The fund is underfunded. Borrowing from it just made it more seriously underfunded," he said.
Retirement, said Hemingway, is "the ugliest word in the language." For former UVA President John Casteen, one of the most pleasant phrases in the language might be "board appointment."
Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced Casteen as an intended appointee to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Board of Trustees. And judging by the other board members—including "medical thriller" author Robin Cook and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—it looks like a heck of a time!
“I certainly would never recommend them to a young student over a community college,” David Breneman, a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and former dean of its school of education, who has studied the University of Phoenix, said in an e-mail. “For older adults with jobs, I think they provide a valuable option. For younger students without prior college experience or a job, I think they provide little value added.”
... Findings contained in the 2010 update of the landmark "The State of Our Unions" report on marriage show that more and more, intact first marriages are becoming the social domain of the well educated. ... report editor W. Bradford Wilcox, who teaches sociology at the University of Virginia, reports that many in the middle class are abandoning marriage for cohabitation.
Estimates vary about how many Virginians will be eligible and will sign up for Medicaid. The University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center estimates that 464,000 will be eligible, and between 240,000 and 339,000 will enroll in the first few years.
... What combination of factors impels one person to think of another as potential mate material? Newly published research suggests one potent element in the mix is mystery.
“Keeping people in the dark about how much we like them will increase how much they think about us and will pique their interest,” a research team reports in the journal Psychological Science. University of Virginia psychologists Erin Witchurch and Timothy Wilson, and Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert provide evidence for this thesis in the form of a cleverly designed experiment.
Newly published research about romantic attraction confirms what mothers have been saying for generations: don't give it all away. “Keeping people in the dark about how much we like them will increase how much they think about us and will pique their interest,” claims a new report in the journal Psychological Science. A research team made up of Erin Witchurch and Timothy Wilson, two University of Virginia psychologists, and Daniel Gilbert, a psychologist at Harvard (and the author of the very good "Stumbling on Happiness"), conducted an experiment on 47 female undergradua...
Landscape architecture professor Kristina Hill discusses how Virginia lags far behind in planning for climate change, while losing coastline to sea level rise faster than any other state besides Louisiana. She offers several potential solution examples.
In chronological order:
Jan. 11: The University of Virginia picks its first female president. Her first six months will not be easy.
Over the last two months, researchers from the Pew Research Center and The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia noted that historically Americans who were highly educated were less likely to marry or be religious, while those less educated favored the two practices. As times have changed, the attitudes towards marriage and religion have reversed.
Louis Auchincloss
Law School graduate and author
A Voice from Old New York
Christian Science Monitor / Dec. 22
Will Shortz
Law School graduate and crossword editor of The New York Times
Interview With Will Shortz
New York Times (blog) / Dec. 21
George Cohen
Law professor
Analysis: NY suit against Ernst & Young fills regulatory gap
Reuters / Dec. 21
Ed Lengel
Editor of the Papers of George Washington Project
Charlottesville--Right Now: Ed Lengel
Charlottesville Podcasting Network / Dec. 20
Larry Sabato
Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
Obama: Do You Like Me Yet?
NPR / Dec. 21
and
Slow growth means 2 lost seats for N.Y.
Newsday / Dec. 21
and
Census: Both VA and WV Grew
WHSV (W.Va. Associated Press) / Dec. 21
Jerry Stenger
Director of the climatology office
Snow still possible this weekend
Richmond Times-Disp...
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Professor of media studies and law
Vaidhyanathan recommends the book, "Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda" by Carolyn de la Pena.
Researchers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and King's College London found children who were more challenging at age 5 also required greater effort from their teacher at age 12.
Editorial on sociologist C. Bradford Wilcox's latest report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values, "The State of our Unions."
In collaboration with the University of Virginia, Raytheon BBN Technologies will conduct a theoretical and experimental program of study investigating newly engineered quantum states of light to perform imaging with performance superior to conventional techniques.